GOP House hopeful Jim Russell praised racist practices, advocated eugenics in 2001 essay

[unhappycamper]

GOP House hopeful Jim Russell praised racist practices, advocated eugenics in 2001 essay
By Stephen C. Webster
Monday, September 20th, 2010 -- 8:25 pm

A New York Republican hoping to displace the long-serving Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey will face an increasingly steep climb to electoral victory thanks to a revelation by Politico's Maggie Haberman, who dug up some of his published works and noted a number of distinctly racist elements in a 2001 piece published by the right-wing Occidental Quarterly.

Jim Russell, who enjoys the support of his state's Republican Party and conservative establishment, has maintained a strongly anti-immigrant stance in his campaign against Lowey, who defeated him in 2008.

The same could be said of his 2001 essay for Occidental , titled "The Western Contribution to World History," which advises parents to establish "appropriate ethnic boundaries" for their children, and criticizes the film "Save the Last Dance" for depicting an interracial relationship.

He also opined against the racial integration of public schools and praised two individuals for their antisemitic ideas on how to limit the spread of Jews.

Russell even lauded some ideas behind the practice of eugenics, a radical ideology most commonly associated with Germany's Third Reich which seeks to preserve racial and ethnic purity.

[grasswire]

1. excerpt

“It has been demonstrated that finches raised by foster parents of a different species of finch will later exhibit a lifelong sexual attraction toward the alien species. One wonders how a child’s sexual imprinting mechanism is affected by forcible racial integration and near continual exposure to media stimuli promoting interracial contact. The most serious implication of human sexual imprinting for our genetic future is that it would establish the destructiveness of school integration, especially in the middle and high-school years. One can only wonder to what degree the advocates of school integration, such as former NAACP attorney Jack Greenberg, were conscious of this scientific concept. It also compounds the culpability of media moguls who deliberately popularize miscegenation in films directed toward adolescents and pre-adolescents. In the midst of this onslaught against our youth, parents need to be reminded that they have a natural obligation, as essential as providing food and shelter, to instill in their children an acceptance of appropriate ethnic boundaries for socialization and for marriage.

"The sociobiological warfare that our youth is subjected to is likely to be even more diabolical since it appears to deliberately exploit a biological theory of sexual imprinting at the critical period of sexual maturity. Movies like this past year’s spate of miscegenationist titles, Save the Last Dance, Crazy / Beautiful and O, a parody of Othello, appear deliberately designed to exploit the critical period of sexual imprinting in their target audiences of white pre-adolescent girls and adolescent young women.

[safeinOhio]

3. If there is a God

I pray that, may all of his grandchildren be brown.

[democrank]

2. Another sickening White-Winger

[golddigger]

4. Yep, this is the face of the right-wing party.

Nazis and KKK rolled into one.

[Tsiyu]

5. Did this "thing" ever breed ?

Because if we ever want a sane, peaceful, successful nation, this "thing" should keep his genes outta the pool....

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Chapter -III- Race Hygiene: Three Bush Family Alliances

snip...

The first step after giving the mental tests to grade school children was to interpret and make public the results. In Orange County the results indicated that three percent of the school age children were either insane or feebleminded.... the field committee hired a social worker to review each case ... and to present any cases in which sterilization was indicated to the State Eugenics Board, which under North Carolina law had the authority to order sterilization....

snip...

Alice Gray was the general supervisor of the project. She and Hanes sent out letters promoting the program to the commissioners of all 100 counties in North Carolina.... What did I do? Nothing besides riding herd on the whole thing! The social workers operated out of my office. I was at the time also director of outpatient services at North Carolina Baptist Hospital. We would see the parents and children there.... I.Q. tests were run on all the children in the Winston-Salem public school system. Only the ones who scored really low , the real bottom of the barrel, like below 70.

Did we do sterilizations on young children? Yes. This was a relatively minor operation.... It was usually not until the child was eight or ten years old. For the boys, you just make an incision and tie the tube.... We more often performed the operation on girls than with boys. Of course, you have to cut open the abdomen, but again, it is relatively minor.

Dr. Herndon remarked coolly that `` we had a very good relationship with the press '' for the project. This is not surprising, since Gordon Gray owned the Winston-Salem Journal, the Twin City Sentinel and radio station WSJS.

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/bush/bush3.htm

I wish I could post more of this report but the rules forbid it. If you click on the link and read the entire thing you will be amazed that these things went on in OUR country. To get to the main 'Bushbook' page click on the following link.

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/bush/bushb.htm#4 --

[marmar]

7. Sounds like your typical Republican candidate these days.....

nt

[indepat]

8. If we didn't know better, one could wonder if Herr Russell is some budding wanna-be Nazi

:patriot:

[BurtWorm]

9. At least he wasn't a witch.

:eyes:

[grasswire]

10. George HW Bush was a proponent of eugenics, too.

In fact, his fellow congressmen nicknamed him "Rubbers" because he kept raising the topic of depopulating minorities -- on the floor of Congress! The Bush clan has always been friendly to the ideas that certain groups of humans needed to be limited.