In 1916, Grant wrote The Passing of the Great Race. Framed as a scientific treatise, Grant made the case that Americans were committing what he called “race suicide.” Undesirable traits weren’t just shared among certain families; according to Grant’s book, they were shared among certain races. If Americans really wanted to purify the gene pool, they needed to prohibit the entry of undesirable races into their country. Grant argued that America needed to become America again. And that the only way this was going to happen was if we removed the weeds and allowed people of Grant’s race to
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And here we are in 2018 having to listen to these arguments again. It's hate that needs to be weeded, not people.
