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Leafing through the Babylonian Talmud recently--you know, that famously racist, sexist and God only knows what else Aramaic magnum opus--I came across this timely meditation: "A court which sentences to death one person every 70 years is deemed blood-thirsty...
During the course of his speech, Professor Anthony Martin stated that the first reference to Africans being created innately inferior and for the service of other people is in the Babylonian Talmud. He quoted several doctoral dissertations, one by a Jewish scholar, that supported his claim that the Babylonian Talmud exists as the first text to place a racial component on the cursing of Ham and is the first instance of a work bigoted against Africans in the European tradition. At no time during his address to the participants of the teach-in did Professor Martin make reference...
...endorse his arguments. It asserts that the BSA does not regret bringing him here because he is a very educated individual who teaches at one of the nation's best colleges and that he, in his speech, used a wide variety of sources, ranging from Jefferson to the Babylonian Talmud to Home, to show that The Bell Curve is not the first book to claim the innate inferiority of the descendants of Africans...
Martin then linked the slave trade to the Talmud by asserting a 1,500-year-old "Jewish monopoly" on racist ideas that began with the Talmud and continued until the advent of Black slavery. According to Martin, the Jewish people carefully nurtured these racist ideas for a millennium and a half until the rest of Europe decided to join...
...President Kristen M. Clarke '97 said after the speech "Professor Martin is an intelligent, well-versed Black intellectual who bases his information on indisputable fact." She's right. Martin is intelligent, he is well versed and he does base his claims, loosely, on fact. The Talmud does contain some racism. And racism against Blacks has been rampant in Europe for at least 500 years...