Word: talmudically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speech, entitled, "The Bell Curve in Historical Context," was little more than a diatribe which sought to label Jews as the sole progenitors of racism-and later the slave trade-in Europe. The basis of his argument consisted of a portion of the Babylonian Talmud, a 2,000-year-old collection of religious writings, which contain a myth that describes Africans as a cursed people who are doomed to a history of servitude...
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...
...noticed a great falsity presented in both stories. Martin did not spend the majority of his time speaking about Jewish contributions to the racism in the Western world. He merely gave evidence which suggested that pseudo-scientific racism stems from pseudo-religious racism, which first appeared in the Babylonian Talmud...
Martin says the earliest version of the Hamitic Myth can be found in the Talmud, a 2000-year-old collection of Jewish religious writings. The professor then jumps 1,500 years into the future and argues that the myth led to the horrors of the slave trade...