Bloodlines and Race
How does Firmin attempt to reconstruct races as existing along a level playing field rather than being arrayed hierarchically?
Joseph Antenor Firmin was nineteenth century's politician and anthropologist from Haiti. He was of the view of equality of races and was strongly opposed of categorizing humanity and the supremacy of a particular race. Although he was a Black himself, he did not promoted black Supremacy rather produced a book in 1885, named De l'Egalite des Races Humaines (On the Equality of Human Races) which was written against the Aryan's supremacy view of French writer Gobineau and his hierarchical ranking of races from white to yellow to Negro. He described in his book that the humans are artificially ranked by some scholars and by giving the examples of Greeks, Romans and Egyptians, he tried to confess the reader that there is no concept of races, rather humans consider themselves superior on the basis of knowledge and civilization. There is no supremacy of color or skin or any such concept that some races are blessed and some are cursed, rather all races are equal in attributes and the Creator have created them the same. Man is superior upon other creations due to intellect and wisdom, not upon each other. If anyone claims the inequality...
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