The Unity of the Human Race
Victor R. Claveau, MJ It is the accepted teaching of Christianity that Adam and Eve were the first progenitors (parents) of the human race. There have been writers, it is true, who maintained that men existed before Adam. Some who for one reason or another wish to remove all possible connection between whites and blacks, insist that […]
Race and Education
By Joseph Pearce| If we truly want to overcome the curse of racism, we need to begin with restoring the humanities, the voice of the human race, to their rightful place at the heart of any good, true and beautiful education. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the premiere of Destiny, a politically-charged play by the […]
Antisemitism and Henry Ford’s “The International Jew”
Henry Ford (1863-1947 was the founder of Ford Motor Company. He was one of the most respected and innovative business leaders in American history. Ford used his position and wealth to promote hatred of Jews. He owned an influential newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, that spread antisemitic ideas to American readers. Antisemitism is prejudice against or […]
Anti-Semitism and the Catholic Relationship with the Jewish Community
Antisemitism is the prejudice against or hatred of Jewish people. It is a form of bigotry and racism. For centuries, antisemites have demonized and dehumanized Jews by spreading antisemitic tropes, stereotypes, and conspiracy theories. Antisemitism is a set of hateful beliefs and ideas about Jews and the Jewish religion, Judaism. It is based on old […]
Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Allan M. Brandt The Tuskegee study of untreated syphilis was one of the most horrible scandals in American medicine in the 20th century. For a period of forty years, from 1932 to 1972, doctors and public officials watched 400 men in Alabama die in a “scientific” experiment based on unethical methods that could produce no […]
Racism under Adolf Hitler
©2021 Victor R. Claveau, MJ It is well known that the National-Socialist totalitarian party made a racist ideology the basis of its insane program, aimed at the physical elimination of those it deemed belonging to “inferior races.” This party became responsible for one of the greatest genocides in history. This murderous folly struck first and […]
Blacks and Abortion.
Victor R. Claveau, MJ Many whites at one time hanged blacks from trees. It was condoned because whites did not see blacks as people. Whites saw their inhuman actions as “racial choice”. Now in America, millions of unborn babies are being killed because they are regarded as fetuses and not persons. This has come to […]
I overheard part of a conversation between a priest and a parishioner at my church where the priest said the Church frowned upon mixed marriages; isn’t that racism?
Victor R. Claveau, MJ It appears that you may have misunderstood the conversation. Mixed marriage refers only to a sacramental union between a Catholic and any baptized non-Catholic. In the 1917 Code of Canon Law, it was referred to as marriage of mixed religion. Although the marriage between a Catholic and a baptized non-Catholic is […]
The Scourge of Eugenics
Eugenics is defined as “the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable. Developed largely by Sir Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, eugenics was increasingly discredited as unscientific and racially biased during the 20th century, especially after the […]
Anti-Semitism in America
Prejudice against Jews has always existed in the United States, but American anti-Semitism differs from its European precursor in fundamental ways. By Jonathan Sarna – My Jewish Learning, July 17, 2025 Antagonism toward Jews in America has been evident almost as long as Jews have lived there. In 1654, the Dutch governor, Peter Stuyvesant, singled out […]