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whites are superior to all other races, and that the white race should
never be polluted by those others. In order to prevent such contamina-
tion, other races must not be permitted to live in areas inhabited by the
white race. The idea is that the other races have no right to the kinds of
opportunities enjoyed by the whites. These races are regarded as para-
sites trying to contaminate the purity and superiority of the whites,
and it is believed that all kinds of measures need to be taken to oppose

them. These views of the Klan are the basis for the attacks carried out
against other races in America. At the root of these ideas, lies hatred
and aggression instead of love, tolerance and dialogue.
The so-called scientific justification for the concept of the superior-
ity of the white race is Darwin's theory of evolution. Darwin had sug-
gested that certain races, the European race for instance, had
progressed further than other races during the evolutionary process.
Those outside these advanced races were in his view primitive crea-
tures little better than apes. To put it another way, while some races had

made enormous evolutionary progress, others were still at a level not
far removed from man's primitive ancestor, the ape. Darwin indulged
in racist speculation about the future, and wrote:
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the
civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace,
the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthro-
pomorphous (manlike) apes, …will no doubt be exterminated. The
break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider. 15

These racist views of Darwin's became an important justification
used in the service of the colonialist powers of the time to disguise their
own brutality. The claim that Darwin put forward to demonstrate his
theory is extremely interesting in the point of view of revealing his ig-
norance and prejudice. In a letter to a scientist named W. Graham in
1881, Darwin cited the Turkish nation as a proof of his theory.