there goes the neighborhood

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
My friends all drive Porches, I must make amends.
~ janis joplin

In "Moral Equality and Natural Inferiority" (Social Theory and Practice, July 1, 2005), Laurence Thomas writes...

As is well known, Kant made it unequivocally clear in his anthropological writings that he took blacks to be quite inferior intellectually. ... Kant, it seems, took the inferiority of blacks vis-a-vis Europeans to be rather like the difference between a Mercedes-Benz and a Ford Pinto...

Later, the same article notes...

In Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime, Kant remarked of a Negro carpenter who was reproaching white men that "this fellow was quite black from head to foot, a clear proof that what he said was stupid."

And you know when it comes to "clear proofs," ain't nuthin can beat Western Philosophy!

Now, Immanuel, if you could just step this way, there's someone would like a word with you...

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