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According to this logic blacks were not
human beings at all. Another of the best-
known proponents of evolutionary racist
thought, Carleton Coon put forward, in his
book The Origins of Race, published in 1962,
that the black and white races were two dif-
ferent species which had split from each
other back in the Homo Erectus period.
According to Coon, the whites had evolved
further following this separation. The sup-
porters of discrimination against blacks
employed this so-called scientific explana-
tion for a long time.
The existence of a scientific theory
which supported it rapidly increased
racism in America. W. E. Dubois, known
for being against racial discrimination, stat-
ed that "the problem of the twentieth cen-
tury is the problem of the colour line".
According to him, that the problem of
racism should have emerged in such a
widespread manner in a country which
wants to become the world's greatest
democracy, and which from some
points of view has accomplished
this, is not the least important
of paradoxes. The abolition
of slavery has not sufficed

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In late 19 and early 20 century
America, whites treated blacks quite
ruthlessly. Laws and their applica-
tions clearly revealed that blacks
were not regarded as human
beings. While the whites lived in
great wealth, blacks received inhu-
man treatment.