HG Wells, A Short History of the World

read HG Wells 'A Short History of the World'. this is a very lucid book indeed, but it puts too much emphasis on race. the account of the way in which the Aryans descended from the northern parklands encountering semitic peoples, conflicting with them and then becoming the dominant factor (the Greeks and Romans) is lucid and fascinating, but it seems to emphasize race too much. There have been two very strong races throughout history: Aryan and Semite. history itself is their story. (yes and some picaninnies to the south, but what the Hell did they do, show me the Zulu War and Peace...)



Controversial usage

The term was controversially used ("wide-grinning picaninnies") by the British Conservative politician Enoch Powell in his "Rivers of Blood" speech on 20 April 1968. In 1987, Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona defended the use of the word, claiming: "As I was a boy growing up, blacks themselves referred to their children as pickaninnies. That was never intended to be an ethnic slur to anybody."[3] Before becoming the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson apologized for any offence caused by an article in which he sarcastically suggested that "the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies."[4][5]