On Friday, February 19, 1999 at 1:00:00 AM UTC-7,
dar...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
In article <36c9...@grissom.powerup.com.au>,
"E.Ogilvie-Thompson" <euge...@hotmail.com> wrote:
"I have given my life to try to alleviate the sufferings of Africa. There is
something that all white men who have lived here like I must learn and know:
that these individuals are a sub-race. They have neither the intellectual, mental, or emotional abilities to equate or to share equally with white men in any function of our civilization. I have given my life to try to bring them the advantages which our civilization must offer, but I have become well aware that we must retain this status: the superior and they the inferior. For whenever a white man seeks to live among them as their equals they will either destroy him or devour him. And they will destroy all of his
work. Let white men from anywhere in the world, who would come to Africa, remember that you must continually retain this status; you the master and they the inferior like children that you would help or teach. Never fraternise with them as equals. Never accept them as your social equals or they will devour you. They will destroy you." -
Dr. Albert Schweitzer, winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize for peace, in his 1961 book, From My African Notebook.
So, a man who gave most of his life to others, all along viewed them as his inferiors. How many of those who view others as their equals do nothing for them at all (or feel that it's not necessary, since they're "your equals", and *you* are doing fine)? Would *you* rather have your life saved by
someone who thought of you as an inferior lifeform (hmm, how do you know your own doctor doesn't see you this way?) or would you rather die?
Schweitzer's views are not inconsistent with his time, either. The majority of white Europeans, Americans and Australians would have agreed. Very, very few served their fellow human beings as well as Schweitzer. If he was a
white racist, then he was a white racist who left a stable job, in a comfortable nation, to study for several years to become a doctor, sold up his possessions, was baulked numerous times by ignorant authorities, and served decades in Africa as a medical missionary (undoubtedly suffering many of the local diseases, weather, bad food, and other privations), specifically in order to benefit black Africans, whom he felt deserved this action on his behalf. Pick another target.
(source http://www.schweitzerfellowship.org/91text.html )
Darryl.
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I don't think he cared for Africans... I think his "need" to help them were based in self-righteous reasons. If that weren't the case and he actually felt *real* care for these people; then I think he would of left them alone to their own device. Let
them work out their own problems... To get directly involved in a society ((that you deem "inferior")) isn't helping them grow in anyway; not in any natural way anyways.
And if the majority of white people on the planet ((back during his time, or now)) believe blacks are inferior; then I would say that they're basing these beliefs on ignorance. There's a lot more to the "soul" than what is measured by 'our' standard IQ
tests; that are offered to us by the system... A system that isn't humanity's own, but alien... Which is another thing Albert Schewitzer got wrong; is that humanity ((as a whole)) has never truly known a civilization of their own. A real human
civilization is multi-dimensionally aware, connected to nature, resources are infinite, energy is free... There would be no paper money. What we live in today, is an imitation form of a human civilization, but not a real one.
https://worldtruthvideos.
website/watch/humanity-is-hypnotized-by-a-alien-species-under-a-psychic-frequency-fence_dzuQzTGPqaBLdT3.html
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