Why did Einstein call racism "a disease of white people"?

History not taught in schools (yet)



In 1946, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist traveled to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the alma mater of Langston Hughes and Thurgood Marshall and the first school in America to grant college degrees to blacks. At Lincoln, Einstein gave a speech in which he called racism "a disease of white people," and added, "I do not intend to be quiet about it."



https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Einstein-call-racism-a-disease-of-white-people

 

He didn't know Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan or Barack Obama. You're welcome.

 

Please consider that all the men you listed have European genetics.

 

Yes this is a disease and an epidemic and that is infecting the world. Take for instance the apartheid in South Africa. The whites in South Africa became so ruthlessly racist, discriminants and yes they looked down on the Blacks as if they were born below standards or they were savages and the Whites are divine and sacred. Yes this discrimination is not over and though it is legally or constitutionally nonexistent but it is there and everywhere. There is racial discrimination in America more than anywhere else and this discrimination is threatening the very lives of the whites. The whites have some baseless belief that they are genetically superior and this is hogwash.

 

And you don't know them either just what faux news tells you

 

Judging by the content in the link, he saw parallels between the treatment of Black Americans to the Nazi treatment of Jews. He recognized easily that racism and the manifestations of racism is not any doings of Black people, but of Whites.

 

Baloney.

Slavery emanates from African practices, and the goings on of ISIS have shown it's still alive and well there.

 

How can you believe that about the US when we have had a bi president for the last seven years?

Marxist dissidents are trying to rock the boat for their own fell purposes.

 

Obama is Okay and of course he is representing but there are some facts about racism, that is strongly entrenched that cannot be easily eliminated.

 

Especially when it has all but gone away and special interest groups fan the embers and throw gasoline on them.

 

True, I do not mean every white is racist. No. But racism flows in the blood of many and it needs a good education and lots of thinking

 

I Don't think he said racism, but mentioned segregation if accounts by blacks are to be believed.

There is no transcript of his 10 minute talk so claims like the above will be made. This from snopes.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/einstein.asp

 

I believe over half of blacks are racists. The number is probably even higher based on how Obama talks.

 

Baloney. Slavery was practiced all over the globe, and there is no evidence that it "emanated" from Africa. Columbus didn't need any African inspiration when he enslaved Native Americans.

 

What the hell for?

I know they're all racists, and so does anyone else who has paid any attention to their public statements over the last few decades.

 

This is the tsunami of America and the continent cannot be peaceful with its racist people.

 

Well, you listed Black people as examples of non-white people who have the racism disease. Just thought you'd like to know that they received it from their white bloodlines.

 

So you've somehow deluded yourself into believing the "disease" is congenital. Congratulations, I guess.

 

So, by application of the "one drop" rule we can probably claim that most everyone in the U.S. is a racist.

 

According to Jerome and Taylor, Einstein’s statements at Lincoln were by no means an isolated case. Einstein, who was Jewish, was sensitized to racism by the years of Nazi-inspired threats and harassment he suffered during his tenure at the University of Berlin. Einstein was in the United States when the Nazis came to power in 1933, and, fearful that a return to Germany would place him in mortal danger, he decided to stay, accepting a position at the recently founded Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. He became an American citizen in 1940. But while Einstein may have been grateful to have found a safe haven, his gratitude did not prevent him from criticizing the ethical shortcomings of his new home.

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/04/albert-einstein-civil-rights-activist/

 

Nah, just those who are full-blown symptomatic lol.

 

Einstein was a brilliant physicist but obviously wasn't brilliant in every course of study. All races struggle with racism and the very categorization by race doesn't make a great deal of sense.

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
-Albert Einstein

 

So it's not related to genotype but instead to phenotype? When a Northern U.S. inhabitant makes derogatory remarks Southern U.S. inhabitants, would you consider that racist, regardless of the skin colour the remarks emanate from or are directed at?

 

At least he recognized his psychological issues. However, he could only diagnois himself.

 

Columbus was an Italian. Italy was close to Africa then, just like it still is today.

The filthy practice came from Africa. You see how ISIS is enslaving their captives--same thing.

Slavery is still going on in Africa.