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treaties made with the Native Americans and decided to exile them to
dead lands where they could await death. If the other side were not per-
ceived as human beings then how could the treaties made with them have
any validity?
Roosevelt also proposed that the above mentioned racial war repre-
sented the culminating achievement of the spread of the English speaking
peoples (Anglo-Saxons) over the world. 26
One of the foremost proponents of Anglo-Saxon racism, the Ameri-
can evolutionist and Protestant clergyman Josiah Strong, employed the
same logic. He once wrote these words:
Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final compe-
tition of races for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled. If I do not read
amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Cen-
tral and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa
and beyond. And can anyone doubt that the result of this competition will
be "survival of the fittest"? 27
The foremost of the racists who used Social Darwinism to justify
themselves were the enemies of the blacks. Their racist theories, which
divided the races into levels and defined the white race as the most supe-
rior and the black race as the most primitive,
enthusiastically embraced the concept of evolu-
tion. 28
The most prominent of the evolutionary racist
theoreticians, Henry Fairfield Osborn, wrote in an
article headed The Evolution of Human Races that
"The standard of intelligence of the average adult
Negro is similar to that of
the eleven-year-old-youth
of the species Homo Sapi-
ens." 29
In his book The Winning of the
West, US President Theodore T.
Roosevelt established the ideol-
ogy of massacre, and later
implemented it.