BLACK SELF-GOVERNMENT
“We have already stated that we should not attempt to introduce any new theories of government and of society, but merely try to justify old ones, so far as we could deduce such theories from ancient and almost universal practices. Now it has been the practice in all countries and in all ages, in some degree, to accommodate the amount and character of government control to the wants, intelligence, and moral capacities of the nations or individuals to be governed. A highly moral and intellectual people, like the free citizens of ancient Athens, are best governed by a democracy. For a less moral and intellectual one, a limited and constitutional monarchy will answer. For a people either very ignorant or very wicked, nothing short of military despotism will suffice. So among individuals, the most moral and well-informed members of society require no other government than law. They are capable of reading and understanding the law, and have sufficient self-control and virtuous disposition to obey it. Children cannot be governed by mere law; first, because they do not understand it, and secondly, because
they are so much under the influence of impulse, passion and appetite, that they want sufficient self-control to be deterred or governed by the distant and doubtful penalties of the law. They must be constantly controlled by parents or guardians, whose will and orders shall stand in the place of law for them. Very wicked men must be put into penitentiaries; lunatics into asylums, and the most wild of them into straight jackets, just as the most wicked of the sane are manacled with irons; and idiots must have committees to govern and take care of them. Now, it is clear the Athenian democracy would not suit a negro nation, nor will the government of mere law suffice for the individual negro."1
15/25/2017, Taken from Sociology For The South Or The Failure of Free Society:, Electronic Edition, Fitzhugh, George, 1806-1881, Pages 82 and 83, Documenting the American South. “© This work is the property of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text.”
Personally, I think a democracy (homogeneous government) for blacks would require a separate white authority and supervision even such as the biblical institution of slavery. Even though there are some highly intelligent blacks, they are only in small proportion and such higher IQ Negroes have never been able to control or govern their own people as a sustained democracy and with enough food and supplies to suffice the needs of their people. Actually, many of their American more well-to-do leave their community and do not even want to live among the lessor peers but relocate within white communities. Catastrophe has happened in African nations that blacks took over. Nevertheless, blacks may be able to have a different and less socially dependent government such as an intelligent monarchy without the aid of whites, but the leader with the high IQ would most likely have to be very brutal also. Blacks would more likely prosper better under white slavery.
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