The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 166 - The Racist Record Keeping of Virginia
Episode Date: April 13, 2016Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine Walter Plecker and his racist data mining.SOURCESTOUR DATES REDBUBBLE MERCH...
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to back but that's just how these two played out. This one's, if you're not a
fan of horrible racism. Right. Well. Trigger warning. Okay. Walter Ashby
Plecker was born in Augusta County, Virginia. He was the son of a prosperous
merchant and slave owner. Okay. Now you see where stuff's tying in. Well it's a
strong start. I know but it's great that we're already sniffing around slavery.
Sure. Sniffing around slave like America did for many, many years.
Oh they dug in. Ten days after Walter was born his father left to fight for the
Confederate army. Okay. So right he's born right at the fucking start of the
war. 1861 this one shit's going down. Yeah. So his dad fucking bails. Walter was
then mostly raised by quote a faithful slave. All right. That's kind of sweet.
Uh-huh. Her name was Delia and she remained with the family after the Civil
War working as a servant. Okay. So more that's when you would get some sort of
benefit. So that's a weird, that's a weird transition when you go okay so I'm
gonna get paid now right. Yeah. So I'm gonna get some money now yeah. That's
right. And then you're always just I mean well and then you also are really then
you're also just like remember when you whipped me mercilessly two years ago.
Hi. That was such a different time. More tea please. If you do that now you have to
pay me. That's right. The family liked Delia a lot so much so that they had her
get married at their house. Okay. So she sounds like kind of part of the family.
Sure. Like he was raised by her wedding there. They clearly enjoy this person.
Uh-huh. Except for the part when they owned her. Right. Walter attended the
Hoover Military Academy in Virginia and he graduated in 1880. Then he went to the
University of Maryland Medical School in 1885 and got a medical degree. Okay. Right.
Yeah. So whatever that means at that time. Yeah. Well it means that you can
identify where the spirits live in a body that's hurting. Right. And maybe cut a
bat out or whatever you think is happening. Yeah. Right. Walter worked as a
country doctor. There's a bat in your stomach. I'm pretty sure there's a bat in
your tummy. We're gonna have to cut it open. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Modern medicine
has given us the ability to track bats inside of the human body a lot better
than we used to. Can I just say if they didn't they if you don't watch the Nick
and you like this podcast you should be watching the Nick. Right. Sometimes put
this podcast sometimes dark side of the moon it. Yeah. Put the Nick on and throw
this podcast on over it. Sometimes they link up. But there's an episode where a
doctor was giving another doctor eye surgery and so the other doctor who's
getting the eye surgery is like talking him talking to him like they were gonna
do it. He was just gonna do it awake. Right. On your eye. Yeah. What's the
what's the issue. Fuck me. I'd rather just die. What's the issue with little
eye tissue. Just let me die. No. So he has your golf game Bob. There it is.
Walter worked as a country doctor in Western Virginia and in the Colfields
of Alabama. I didn't know there were Colfields of Alabama. We're gonna look
into that. He eventually settled in Hampton, Virginia in 1892. He was a
private physician for 10 years until he became the public health officer for the
county. Okay. And his new role he took an interest in delivering babies and
educating midwives. Okay. These two strong likes. Yeah. Particularly, you know, a lot
of the black black women having children and where there was a higher
mortality rate. Okay. So he but that's what he's helping with is more black
women with. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. He developed a simple incubator for home use. It was
made from a laundry basket, a thermometer, a kerosene lamp, and dirt. Okay. So this
is like when your kid makes a time machine. Just like a cardboard box with
like a bunch of string on it. It's just like a drum pedal. If I can, if you hit
the pedal enough, we can go back to any time father. We have the four ingredients
of the incubator, which is you take a laundry basket, you put a
thermometer in it, right with a lamp. Yeah, that's gonna heat everything up. Sure.
And then you just throw some dirt on the bottle just to be safe. Just a baby in
dirt safe. Just a dirt floor. Hygiene top of the list. Right. Yeah. It was very
successful. The mortality rate among the poor was reduced. Right. But the filth
among babies had never been 10 times to the dirtiest babies have ever been.
Oh, your baby's very dirty. He's gonna live. But my God, does he need a bath?
Walter also recorded the details of more than 90% of the births and deaths in the
county. He loved keeping and reading records. It's all about records, records,
records, records. Oh, well, well, well. He married a woman named Kate Houston, who
was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Walter was
described as quote, stone cold and a very rigid man by a former co-worker quote.
I don't know of anyone who ever saw him smile. Geez. That that might be one of
the most terrifying things we've ever read in the first page of a doll. He's
never smiled. Never smiled. Now, Virginia was a place you could
appropriately describe as racist. What? Yeah. Virginia? Yes. In America? I know.
What? Hard to believe. Can't. And they legalized it. In April 1691, the Virginia
General Assembly outlawed interracial marriage. In 1785, the Virginia
Legislature passed an act in order to determine who should be quote, deemed a
mulatto. The legislature defined a mulatto as a person with one fourth or
more Negro blood. Anyone with more than a fourth was considered a colored person.
So you got the... So if you have... If you have a black grandfather and then
everyone else is white, you're mulatto. Right. But if you have two or if you have
a black grandfather and then a mulatto grandmother, then you're gonna be
colored, a colored, classified colored. It is amazing to think of it like, even
hearing that, you're just like, it shouldn't matter. But in that case, you're
like, oh no, what? I'm not black. I'm white. Please, I'm white. You're gonna love this one.
Oh, shit. In 1849, Virginia passed a law making marriages between whites and
blacks absolutely void. So they originally had outlawed interracial
marriage, and now they're saying voids. That means that people that must have
gotten married to other places and it came to Virginia. Your marriage was
automatically dissolved when you crossed the border. So you're like entering
Vatican City, like once you come into Virginia. What's happening? Oh, I'm sorry.
You're black and not married. Get over here. Get over here. Welcome to Virginia.
Well, you shouldn't have crossed our border. In March 1912, the Virginia
General Assembly created the Bureau of Vital Statistics. This can't be good.
The Bureau would record all births and deaths and the race of the person
documented. Okay. Of course, being a record keeper already, Walter Plecker was
appointed to head the Bureau. Walter made sure from 1912 onward that all babies
born in Virginia were given birth certificates that included racial
designations. Okay. Well, I'm sure that that is terrible. If that makes sense in
a way. If they have to keep track of. If you're keeping track of bait, but I'm
obviously sure that this is going to be a completely flawed and racist system. No.
Yeah, for sure, obviously. Was Virginia done yet? Nope. In 1918, the General
Assembly required that the Bureau record all Virginia marriages and note the
races of husbands and wives. Just like a weird, like, race Gestapo just going
around. That's an interesting, interesting term. Determining. That apparently
wasn't enough. In 1910, they legally defined, colored, so they, they changed
the legal definition. So right, colored before was one more than a quarter, right?
A quarter mulatto, more than a quarter. Right. That's what we had. Right. So they
took it, they took it down a notch. Now a colored person was someone who was
really good at basketball once. That's so racist. That's the idea. Yeah, it is the
idea. The colored person was somehow one who had one sixteenth or more
nigger blood. So that's like one great grandparent was black, makes you black.
Right. Right. That's got to be so like, okay, so in these horribly racist times, if
your friends were the white guy who had a little black in him, but was determined
to be white, now there's this switch now where it's way more awkward. Way more
awkward. Where you're like, Terry, look, I can't talk to you ever since you got
determined black. I did, but I'm the same Terry. I understand your heart's the same,
but it was my great-great-grandfather. Quit bragging about it, Terry. Now get out of
here. You know bragging means. Get out of here. They just drop them off at the
woods like a dog. Go, turn around. What? I live next to you. You turn around. You
don't have to, you don't have to go anywhere, but you can't stay here. Oh my
god, that should be a song. Turn around. Go, boy. Turn around. Every now and then I thought
you was white, but now it turned out you're a black man. Oh, and then the
definition of Native Americans was changed. To anyone who'd been fucked by
the white man. Indians were people who did not have any Negro blood at all and
one-fourth or more Indian blood. How is that so different from what they
were before? Was there a lot of... Why is that? I don't know what the Native Americans
were classified before this, but now they can't have any... Can you just... It's
terrible. Leave them be. Oh, we can't. They have to... Why? Well, there's a
white situation happening. We need to... A situation. So that's obviously got to keep
track of that. So now to be an official Native American, you
have to have more than a quarter-blood Native American and you can't have a
drop of any black guy stuffing you. Right. Meanwhile, whites are raping all
of these people. Right. Now, Walter Plecker was also very
into white people in Jesus Christ. He was a fundamentalist Presbyterian and
believed the Bible was infallible. Sure. He thought segregation was a Bible
truth. He was known to say that God flooded the earth and destroyed Sodom
because he was angry at the inbreeding of the races. Right. Well... So he should
have a government position. Yeah, obviously. Well, it's like it says in the
Bible, whites only. You know, I loved his interview. I was not sure about him, but
when he said that Sodom was destroyed because blacks and whites were fucking,
I was like, let's hire this guy. Isn't it weird that now the Bible didn't say
stuff like that? Okay. You know what? What? Let me go read about it. Shocking how
it's never changed, yet changed. What about the fact that Jesus wasn't a white
guy? Whoa, bro. Whoa. In September 1922, Walter founded the Anglo-Saxon clubs of
America. Good. With Ernest Cox, a real estate agent and insurance agent, and
John Powell, who was at the time a famous composer and pianist. They saw the
Anglo-Saxon clubs of America as an alternative to the Ku Klux Klan, which
they did not like. Okay. Supposedly. They considered themselves to be the science
and intellectual counter to the stupid brutality of the KKK. Right. Sort of
your thinking racism. Thank you. Yeah, right. Quote, the goal of the Anglo-Saxon
clubs was to preserve and maintain Anglo-Saxon ideals and civilization in
America through the strengthening of Anglo-Saxon instincts, traditions, and
principles among representatives of our original American stock. Right. And the
KKK was more like a WWF wrestler? Yes. Lawless, ready to take a chair to get
there. Who wants to be all white? And then there's the other guy like, I think... Now, hold on a minute. I think there's a way to trick the blacks. Let's smash chairs on the back of them when they ain't looking. Well, hold on a minute.
Hold on. I also like that they wanted to strengthen Anglo-Saxon instincts. Yeah,
right, right. You like fucking other whities, yeah? Yeah. Yeah, let's get some then.
That kind of thing. Yeah, right. They were also into restricting immigration, not
surprising. What? These people? And quote, the fundamental and final solutions of our
racial problems in general, most especially the Negro problem. Any time
someone says the Negro problem, we're going down the dark. And I guess really
the only problem was that they were around and had been given like no
real opportunity for anything and therefore were seemed to sort of like... They're free.
That's the problem. Right. This wasn't happening before the war. They're free now
and now they're mad. Yeah. It would be like a state all of a sudden saying that
you can't serve gay people just because or like that transgender
people can only use the bathroom of their defined birth. Right, because what
you want is a woman coming into a bathroom and peeing next to
your son. Yeah. Because that's not going to be confusing. No, really if you do look
at the two, one is extremely illogical and one is the one, the new sense we're
trying to define. And we're trapped with the one that's like, no, no.
Statistically, if you really wanted to stop, which they say is all about sexual
assaults, if you really wanted to stop sexual assaults at children, you would
make going to the Catholic Church illegal. So... Mic drop.
So they believe that increases in mixed marriages would destroy white
civilization by wiping out all its desirable racially exclusive traits and
characteristics. Sure, like being total pricks. Like yeah, just like just being
fucking monsters. By being huge racist monster. This was a popular belief at the
time called eugenics. Eugenics at some point will get its own dollop. It was
considered to be a thinking man science and was thought up by Charles Darwin's
cousin Francis Galton. The word eugenics means well-born. The belief was a
racial and genetic purity would result in a more stable society and then it
could be gained by selective breeding. By promoting selective marriages, unwanted
hereditary disorders could be eliminated. Basically, get the awesome people to
breed and sterilize those who are unwanted. Okay, and they're right. So the
difference between Darwin was survival of the fittest. He's survival of the
whitest. In the sense that he like it's just... Oh my god, no that's a TV show. Survival of the whitest.
Trump hosts. But today you've got to scale the wall. Try to scale the wall. No
using rope. But but the truth is that that is like where that comes from is the
idea that how you are in society is not based on opportunity. It's based on
skin color and if you continue to provide no opportunity to other races, of
course you're going to be like well they're just a bunch of do-nup. It's
like you've created the environment where there's no other option than to
be poor or like you have to work five times as hard to get anywhere a white
person does. Yeah, it's great. Good. Glad to be clear. It was pretty well
accepted. Eugenics was pretty well accepted in the USA as fact and the way
to go, particularly among US academics, there were courses taught on eugenics at
many well-known US colleges and the wealthy gave tons in funding to study
eugenics and to create a eugenics movement because America, which we're kind
of still doing. We are. There's still payment for misinformation. I mean come
on. Now in Virginia whites believe blacks were inferior but they believe their
black people were the best black people going. Such a fun space to play in.
We hate all black people but I'll say this, I'd put mine against any other black.
They are awful devil people who we don't want drinking the
same water as us but our group will get the shit out of your group. Bring it on,
Mississippi! Come on, Mississippi! Now they had some reasoning behind this
belief. Which was, bad slaves were sold down the river during slavery. We've
talked about sold down the river before, right? So sold down the river is, I think
in Tennessee, it's the Mississippi rivers where they're talking about and if you
had a slave that was a problem, tried to escape, whatever, you would take him there
and he would be sold down the river to Mississippi where they were far more
brutally treated. Right. Kind of like how the Inuits say goodbye to a family
member when they die except they would just ship these people further down the
river. Right, they're still alive and they're just getting a worse job. Right.
It's not even a job because they're not being paid. Right. No, it's just a worse
life as a slave. You're going to hell basically. Right. I mean imagine when
you're like about, you're just like, what else can you do to me? Be like, you
thought this was like, get ready. Welcome to Mississippi, motherfucker. You're going to Mississippi.
They treat you guys horribly there. So the Virginia blacks were then from what slave
dealers called selected stock. Right. So it's a classification of humans that you
own. It really is. Where these ones behave better and so they're considered better.
So Virginians at the time believed that their black people, but it makes sense
if you come from the eugenics thing. So we're talking about breeding and that's
what they're believing in. So they think that they have better. Yeah, but they're
not cheerleading squads. Like why? There might have been some cheerleading squads.
Why? I know what they're cheering for. Give me an F, an A, an E, an E. Run! Fucking run! Run!
But it's so ridiculous to be like, no. There's nothing that's not ridiculous
about this. It's just fucking horrifying. Yeah. Yes. It is true. It's almost
ridiculous to call it ridiculous. So Virginia doctors believe that they had
the best blacks, but they also argue that Virginia blacks had more crime, sexual,
perversion, and disease since the Civil War ended. They have a weird way of bragging.
The president of the American Medical Association, who happened to be a
Virginia doctor, did research to find, quote, some scientific explanation of the
sexual perversion in the Negro of the present day. Before the Civil War, a rape
by a Negro of a white woman was almost unknown. Now the newspapers tell us how
common it is. Rising rates of insanity and disease all indicate that the Negro
is reverting to savagery and destined for extinction. All history shows that
knowing for your race can exist for very many years in contact with the
dominant white man. What? It is the frightful survival of the fittest. So
that's the president of the American Medical Association. What? What? The American Medical
Association. You respect them, yeah? Surely now. They're the medical most. Never more
than now. They're a great organization. That was the president saying that. That's
good. Out loud to other people. Oh my god. I assume what was a smattering of applause.
Oh my god. So in their minds, the propaganda of the southern post-war media,
which would of course constantly attack the new free blacks to paint them as
monsters, is real and therefore medically and hereditarily they are breeding
into something. Not that it's the media doing it. But then, which is crazy. Right.
Because it's just like you take, I mean it's a lot like our news cycle now. It's
pretty much where you just take, you just have bullshit facts from bullshit
people for your bullshit speech. Yeah. But it is, it's just astounding to think
that this is said by somebody in a position like, out loud to people. Well,
like not like a clearly respected man. Right. Like and again saying that like
this is like when you, a white man being dominant, the only reason why white
people were dominant was because they were just the worst. They had numbers,
they were vicious and they had guns. Yeah. I mean that was what, that's nothing
about like them slowly becoming like a more dominant species. They were just
really the biggest pricks. Yeah. They had the weapons. They were top dog pricks.
They were top dog pricks. GDP. Of course, the Anglo-Saxon clubs were very, very
popular and they branched out. They had over 400 members by June 1923, just nine
months after opening up the first one. Okay. And they franchised. They had 31
clubs in Virginia, including two in Charlottesville, one for the town's folk
and once for the students at the University. They're like a flood
ruckers. I mean that's what I call them. They franchised. So welcome to the Anglo-Saxon
club. Come on down. We're opening up a new Anglo-Saxon club.
Jalapeno poppers, half price. Try the new tater tot bar. It's like Golden Corral.
Oh man. Even though one of the founders, John Powell, said the club had nothing to
do with the KKK and that they were actually quote, friendly to the Negro,
the chairman, president and secretary of the Richmond club had all been
Klansmen. Hmm. That's that's interesting. Yeah. Isn't that odd? Funny how there's no
association. This is the fucking 20s. This is less than a hundred years ago,
just so we're all understanding. Virginia had two main newspapers, the
Richmond Times Dispatch and the Go Whitey Weekly. I do I do love the sports
page in the Go Whitey Weekly. Well, white guys tore it up again last night
sporting wise. There we go. That's what I love to read. Love to read about my
white boys doing good. The Roanoke white walls almost defeated. Anyway, almost. I
don't like that word one bit. No, whites versus whites. It was a win-win for everyone.
They were both the newspapers were super on board with the club. The papers
supported the club by publishing dozens of articles, including one titled Is
White America to Become a Negroid Nation? Get out of my ears. But who fucking
thinks like who? Okay, but that's the sort of time at the time when it's so
racist and so segregated, who looks around and gone, we're coming to Black
Nation. Yeah. Like, but the club had bigger plans. Together, Palin, Walter,
worked on a draft of what would become the Preserve Racial Integrity Act of
1924. My guess is it's low on integrity. It wasn't hard to get it past because many
members of the legislature were members of the Anglo-Saxon clubs. Interesting. The
law stopped a white person from marrying a non-white who referred to as colored
in the bill. To do this, they had to determine, they had to define whiteness.
They had already done that. Yeah, but now they're doing it. They're going
further. They need to be super vanilla. They came up with quote, a person who has
no trace whatsoever of any blood other than Caucasian. Anyone else would be
classified as colored. So it's called the One Drop. Oh, well, at least it's got a
cute name. Well, they, that's what it became. The One Drop law. It's officially
known as the, but it was known as the One Drop. They did have to make one
exception though. It was known as the Pocahontas exception. I, Dave. What's up?
What's up girl? I don't know. I don't know about this one. Many of the prominent
white people in Virginia were descendants of Pocahontas and John Rolf, or at
least they thought they were. They believed they were. They were known
around Virginia area as the first families. Okay. So they think they're
directly descended from. Right. But is that, but how could that be classified as
good in this world? Well, or okay. Because they're the first. They were the first
ones. And so for whatever reason. So that's okay. It's okay. Okay. And they all
seem white, right? Sure. Yeah. No, all seem super white. So they, they, so they
don't want to classify those people as colored because those are the people who
kind of run the town. Right. Right. So when it's inconvenient, well, then the law
doesn't matter. The dumb law for idiots doesn't matter. Okay. If you want to put
it that way. Yeah, I do. He wrote language into the bill. Anyone who had one
sixteenth or less of the blood of an American Indian and have no other
non Caucasian blood will be deemed to be white persons. So it's a, it's a special
clause loophole. Cool. Walter was not into this exception. He thought it was a
dangerous loophole that would encourage mixed race breeding and that those
people would pass themselves off as whites when they clearly were not. Pass
yourself off. The law asked people to voluntary register their racial
identity, their racial identity with the bureau. That's the best. Oh, white. You
know, black people in there like white, fully white. Hi. Is this the bureau? Yes.
I want to come in and register myself as a white. Sure. Sure. Well, you're
clearly a black man. No, I have blue eyes and blonde hair and I am very, very
white. Well, you're black. So, okay. I, we're kind of going on the honor system
here. I'm actually not going to volunteer. I'm just gonna take off. Okay. Cool. I'm
gonna run. Yeah. Well, as you should, but again, your name. Out. Out? Out what? Sir?
Sir? Someone chase that man out. If you falsified your racial identity on a
marriage license or birth certificate, it was a felony and you would get one
year in prison. Jesus. Walter promoted the law as much as possible. He made
pamphlets to be handed out and wrote journal articles. He gave speeches and
lectures to medical and health associations around the South. There he
would brag about Virginia taking the lead and keeping the white race pure. He
also would keep track of records and personally write to people to warn them
of their racial misdeeds. Oh, wow. Get that. That's not a letter. Dear non-white
liar. You know, when you get a letter from the IRS now, you're like, oh, this is a
little bit different. There's a little bit different letter you get. Oh, fuck, we're
black. They're auditing my makeup. Oh, no. Oh, God, I'm getting my whiteness. I
knew I overstated my whiteness for this year. My guy said it would be fine. My
guy said it would be fine. He said I get right off 10% black and then the rest
of the white guy would be fine. Oh, gosh. I don't have receipts for any of this. In
1924, he wrote a letter to a woman who had just had a child because he said the
father was colored. Quote. Dear godless black. This is to give you warning that
this is a mulatto child and you cannot pass it off as white. Wow. A new law passed
by the last legislature says that if a child has one drop of Negro blood in it,
it cannot be counted as white. You will have to do something about this matter
and see that the child is not allowed to mix with white children. It cannot go to
white schools and can never marry a white person in Virginia. It is an awful
thing. Signed Walter. Funny. Plekker. Funny how he ended it. It is an awful thing for you.
Isn't it? Isn't it, you fuck? It is an awful thing. So he clearly had his eye on
that. So that he did right after the law was passed. So he clearly had his eye on
that woman, that woman the whole time. Right. And then as soon as the law was passed.
Excuse me. Hello. Hall monitor. He had his eye on a lot of people. Right after the
law was enacted, he wrote a letter to the Virginia Health Authority. It is
estimated that they are from 10,000 to 20,000, possibly more, near white people
in the state who are known to possess an inter mixture of color, colored blood.
In the past, it has been possible for these people to declare themselves as
white or even to have the court. So declare them. Then they have demanded the
admittance of their children into white schools and have intermarried with white
people in any large gathering or school of colored people, especially in the
cities. Many will be observed who are scarcely distinguishable as colored.
These persons are not white in reality, and their children are likely to revert
to the distinctly negro type, even when all apparent evidence of mixture has
disappeared. Oh, okay. So you don't even need evidence to prove this theory. He's
saying that you, a couple of white people, good at all, that look like a black
baby. And then what do you do? Well, what's next? Then where are you? Then comes
the loud hip hop, and the break dancing, and then the cavorting.
By Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics has kept a watch fly on the situation and
has guarded the welfare state, the welfare of the state, as far as possible.
And less radical measures are used to prevent it. Virginia and other parts of
the nation must surely in time go the way of all other countries. No. People of two
or more races have lived in close contact. To succeed, the intermarriage of the
white race with mixed stock must be made impossible. But that is not
sufficient. Public sentiment must be influenced so that the intermixture out
of wedlock will cease. The public must be led to look with scorn and contempt
upon the man who will degrade himself and do harm to society by such abhorrent
deeds. Just openly calling for propaganda. And calling for scorn. Just calling for
people to be mean to other people. Yeah. Worry everyone and then make them hate. If we
can't do it legally, we'll do it on the street corners. I want to hear you all say
black bitch. Which also, which also, which also sort of like, it just speaks to the
fact that in society it really probably wasn't that bad. Because you have to
inflate it now so much to prove, like there's not a lot of fact to deal with.
Like they have, they have probably, society has probably already worked this
out where how you look, you get to do certain things. Or at least it's starting
to like coalesce towards the time where it's okay and not terrible. Yeah. So he's
seeing people, he's seeing, like you used to have just black and white, but now
there is a mixing of the races a lot. And so they're seeing people in between. And
so these are old school racists who can't fucking handle that. Right. It's like if
like when an old dude on a porch sees two dudes holding hands and love, he's like
never it's golden dicks are gonna be on the other dicks. Oh no. Okay first of all
when I said that, I was, Dave, I didn't say you, I'm not attributing that to you.
Okay. We can cut that out. I didn't say that. Yeah. You never said that, but it's
like you were saying when you watched those two dudes the other day hold the
hands and you were worried about all the dicks on the other dicks. Right. So how
does one go about learning who has a drop of black person's blood in them?
Oh, that's easy. Well, now this takes us more to modern day stuff that America has
been debating. That's what the NSA does. It's the thing. They were collecting
emails. It's the thing our Congress thinks is okay. It's called data collecting.
Right. And anytime you use data collecting, you can go back and look at
that old data. Right. So if you're worried about who is this or that now and
you're keeping track of it, there's no saying in 50 years that someone might not
go back and look at those records and use it for a different purpose. You mean
like why I bought all those whipped cream cans? Well, I'm looking at you, aren't I?
I just like banana splits. Uh-huh. And the gas that comes out. So he looked at
old records. His main sources of information were birth and death
records that were made by tax assessors from 1853 to 1896. I love that tax
assessors like what they determine race to be is somehow going to work.
Uh, there was also marriage records beginning in 1853. He had United
States Census reports from 1830, 1850 and 1870, which included a list of free
blacks by county. He had county taxpayer lists by races that went all the way
back to 1808. Jesus. And people declared their race on voter registration
rolls. Oh, shit. There is also US military records. Walter also located,
located a book written by a black man called Free Negro Heads of Families in
the United States in 1830. I mean, this dude, it really, for his misinformation
has a lot of information. He has a lot of information because people are always
collecting data. What you just explained would be like a great montage of like
data collection. He really got some good stuff. This is why data collection is
problematic. That's why you never write a book bragging about how good things are
for you. He used that book quite a bit to prove that people had black in their
past quote of the name submitted from a local official for verification. We
find included in that list Solomon Collins and Vardy Collins in the book we
find at least 12 Collins Heads of Families. This shows they were Negroes by the
1830 census. So now an entire family named Collins is now probably living as
white are now black. I mean, we've got a fun movie if we want it. Suddenly black.
They were just a regular white family happily living. Mom, I can't find my
paper and crayons. Until one day they were suddenly black. Ain't got no paper.
Ain't got no paper. This fall. What happened? Let us have no paper. Don't let
them know you can write. When one family gets turned upside down. Well, that's
good. I'm getting a real Christopher Waltz and glorious bastards vibe from this
guy at this point. Yeah, okay. He's the Jew, Hunter. Yeah, yeah. He made state
clerks who issued marriage licenses determine who was pure white and if
there was any doubt then not issued the license until they had proof. The final
burden of proof fell on the Bureau of Vital Statistics who would scour the old
records to make a determination of their whiteness. So he's just like
Ancestry.com'd the racial state of Virginia. So you want to get married.
Then you're terrified of getting married. Oh my god, is there any
black in me? Well, I love you so much. I'm gonna go find out. Oops, we can't get
married. It's so fucked up. It's like an STD test. Oh god, I hope I
don't have. I came back. I have black and you do too now. I'm so sorry. The good
news is we can get married. The bad news is we're both black even though we're
both incredibly white. We look white. We are black. So we have to move to the other side
of town and get chased around by men and horses. Suddenly black. Walter created
what he called the racial integrity dragnet. He seems like the guy, well, I'm
not gonna lie, dragnet at the end threw me for a loop. I really, I was already
mid-joke, but then hearing dragnet is, how could you follow integrity with
dragnet? He got 6,000 midwives, 2,500 physicians, 1,300 local
registers, registars, and 2,500 undertakers to report to him. So he had
some numbers? I don't know what the undertakers were doing. Who knows? Walk on
him open. He seemed black inside. Good. More stuff like this Chevy. Quote, we have
one or more representatives in every local community within two to five miles
of every person. School authorities have been reached through their journal and
the public is being instructed by newspaper articles and lectures. And it
wasn't just records. Walter, other ways to determine race. Quote, if a comb passes...
This is going to be so racist. It hurts. If a comb passes through the hair of an
applicant, he is an Indian. If not, he is a Negro. Oh my gosh. Oh boy.
His race... It's just dirty. No, you're black. No, that's sorry. You're black now.
Comb test. Comb didn't go all the way through, so you're black. His racial
integrity dragnet sort of made calls based on whatever. I mean, that's the case,
right? Right. Letter to one of his dragnet people. Quote, as to deciding the
point of race, you and the sheriff and any other intellectual citizen of your
community are as capable of judging from the appearance of the child as the most
learned scientist. There's absolutely no blood or other tests to determine that
question. Only the appearance of the child and the habits of the mother as to
association with Negroes. So if you're white, you know everything. It seems that
way, yeah. It's interesting. So white people, you know, it's also the other thing,
like what if you just wanted someone out of your neighborhood? Oh yeah, really.
You know what I mean? Really? Or you're a rich guy and you want someone's property
or whatever. Really? You want someone's job. Yeah. Or you get humiliated in a
bar. You walk out, you're like, I'll prove you're black, Brett. I will prove it,
motherfucker. We'll see who's got all the catchy taglines when you're a black. Hey,
listen, you know, I'm sober now and I want to apologize for some stuff. Go through
the 12 steps. You know, first of all, I want to apologize because I made you
black and you weren't black and I'm sorry about that. That was my
drinking and my anger. It's one of those things that you kind of can't put it
back in the bottle now that it's out. Yeah, but you know. I'm an indentured
serve the two persons. Right. So, but anyway, I'm sorry for that. That was my
alcoholism. Great. As long as you're happy. Okay. Fucking asshole. Okay, I'm gonna
get in my chariot and race off. All right. I'm gonna go to the barn where I sleep on
hay. So people's lives are being completely changed based on physical
features or family names. Because this was the law, people would find
themselves in court as defendants charged of being a little bit black. You
know, we did. We still do that now. We do still do that. We just come up with a
different name for the crime. And September 1924, Walter testified against
Dorothy Johns that she was this is such it's like the Salem witch try. Oh, it's
yeah, it's fucking black. Yeah. If you float in the water, you're white. That's
right. If you can swim in the water, you're a white man. If you could swim
while you're on fire, you're black. So he testified in court that Dorothy Johns
was a triple mixture. She's what we call a triple mix of Native American black
and white blood. And she had attempted to marry a white man. We're not sure the
judge ruled in that one. In another case, a judge ruled that there was not
enough evidence to rule that Atheist Sorals was racially mixed. The judge
noted that the category Caucasian completely lacked scientific precision
and that appearance wasn't enough. Atheist Sorals was ruled by the court to be
white. I mean, it's really like guilty verdict red. Your honor, we have reached
a verdict. Oh, please, please, please not black. We find the defendant not black.
Please not black to be white. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Yes. Oh, my God. I swear I
didn't do it and I'm glad you guys figured it out. I did not. I did not become
black at any point on the secondary charge. Please not black of murder. Please
not black. We find her guilty. Oh, shit. They found me black. They found me black.
Kiss my kids. Goodbye. Okay, now this ruling was a problem because it set legal
precedent that Walters' methods were not really that great. He told the press
that the ruling would change his work at the bureau, but he stopped taking the
cases to court and instead relied on his racial integrity dragnet to enforce the
law. So now he's like, well, we're not gonna go to court anymore because they
can remove it. Yeah. Well, there's no, the clear, the justice thing isn't working
out because that woman that I know is black because she's got tiny, tiny drop
of black in it. Yeah. It was just called white. So this is all fucked up. It is
amazing though that judges somehow had like in this time did have the restraint
to be like, no, you have to prove it. Yeah. No, that's, this is crazy. You're
fucking, you're fucking crazy. Yeah. Mostly he was concerned going to court
would lead to the law being declared unconstitutional. Oh God. And the editor
of the Richmond Times dispatch was on his side saying the judge quest,
questioned, substituted. The judge in question substituted the rule of reason
and the letter for the law. Right. The law. So, you know, he's probably a
black. He gave every, Walter also gave every medical, a very medical speech to
the AMA about the mixing of the races. We behold with awe the evidences which we
now find in Egypt of the wonderful civilization of the, did I mention that
this is the American Medical Association? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So this is a
medical speech. Right. We behold with awe the evidences which we now find
in Egypt of the wonderful civilization of the past when that country was white.
Who can forget when Egypt was white? Oh, we've all seen the movies. Egypt was
so fucking white at first. Yeah. People don't realize that. When it was good. Yeah,
it was super white. Yeah. When they got super white. When those pyramids had
water slides, that was whitey. Then the dark Egyptians came in. From the bottom
of the country. Exactly. The Pharaohs extended their conquest south and brought
back as captive large numbers of Negro men and women. This is such an amazing
theory. This is the craziest. This is such an amazing theory. Like that people
didn't start laughing that Egypt was founded by whites and was great until
they started fucking their slaves and then became shit. That's pretty much
what he's saying. It holds up. It really does. Intermixure of the races began
and progressed to such a point that one of the Pharaohs took a wife that was a
Negro woman whose son succeeded to the throne. And now look at him. Now. Now
there was a black king. The fall of Jerusalem followed and the Egyptians
were captured by the Babylonians. You've heard it a million times. We all know
it. I can't believe I got to say this shit out loud. Now it is this mulatto or
his offspring that is causing all the trouble. They do not wish to be classed
as Negroes. And if light enough in color, try to pass as white and marry into
white families. I feel sick. Every possible means should be used to prevent
this. The strongest weapon is public opinion. Good. Good. People shouting
each other on the street. People. Yeah. Good. So accused someone of being black.
Shame them out of white society and boom. Your job's done, right? So now. So now.
Now the court. Now that the court has moved. The move is to now shame people that you
claim are not pure white. Right. To. So. So the court is ruled. Banished. Right. The
court is ruled. So you can't go to court anymore. So now what. Because there's a
legal precedent that says that there needs to be some burden of proof which
you probably don't have. No, he doesn't. Right. Well, he's got these records but
he doesn't have it. But really, what is that? Yeah. So now. But now if he labels
someone black, the school is going to kick him out. Right. He's going to have to,
you know, everyone knows who he is in this town. Right. So he has to use the courts.
The colored drinking fountain. Right. And then, you know, he has to do all that shit.
Right. What if you were like in line for the white water fountain and the line was
so long and there was like one person. Wouldn't you, wouldn't you be like, fuck it.
Let's go drink out of the color. Yeah. I don't know how that would work. Just go over
there real quick. But then does that make you colored? Yeah. Then there's someone
who's like, can we talk to you in here, sir? You've put your lips near where a
black person's lips were. Right. That was really thirsty. You're black. No, I was
super thirsty. I would just run. Well, you're a thirsty black person. I wanted water.
That's the very black quality. You're incriminating yourself right there. I'd
watch your tongue. Egypt used to be all whites. Okay. I don't know why. Till you
blacked it up with your water wanting ways. Unbelievable. I was talking about Egypt
right now. I just wanted some water. Because it used to be great. Then the blacks
came in. A guy married a black and now look at him. Reactions from other doctors
at the AMA meeting where he gave his speech were such. Dr. W. A. Evans of
Chicago, the health officer who does not recognize racial hygiene and racial
peculiarities, the advantages and disadvantages of mixing these stock is
failing in the responsibility that rests upon his shoulders. Dr. Dempsey of
New Orleans. No mixture of Japanese, Chinese, Negro, etc. has ever attained the
hapinical for which the white race is known. Oh boy. Walter also went around
the state speaking to biology classes, explaining the Racial Integrity Act and
taking the first step toward the quote final solution of the Negro problem. One
speech Walter gave to students, quote, in the lifetime of some now living, we may
expect the present 12 million colored population to increase to 20 or
possibly 30 million. And that perhaps to 100 million during the next century to
say nothing of the prolific Mongolians, the Chinese, who are already firmly
established upon our West Coast. It's an invasion. He's claiming there's a
Mongolian invasion in the West. Well, there's clearly a Mongolian problem on
the West Coast with the competition of this large number of people of low
ideals and low standards of living. There it is. And the great effort to
secure the means of maintaining a family up to the desired standard. The white
population will be crowded out. Virginia has made the first serious attempt to
stay or postpone the evil day when this is no longer a white man's country.
Well, he doesn't pull punches. Virginia is for what? He doesn't pull punches.
Used to be lovers. Now change it to what? Virginia is for what? Walter told
another class of about 40 members of a family who had been determined to have
been related to a black man who had children with a white woman four
generations back. The family had been living as a white family. Oh, God, for
that. But the bureau had classed them as colored. This meant new schools, new
doctors, etc. or a total upheaval of their life. Wow. So overnight, yeah, you
literally can't do anything in the society that you've been like your whole
fit. It's not like just you, your whole family. Shut out. Yeah. And your
brothers and sisters who have their own families, like everybody from
grandfather on down all of a sudden is fucked. Yeah. Walter was very concerned
about the state's allowing interracial marriage. That's what we should call him.
Walter White is very concerned about the state's allowing interracial marriage at
this point. I'm shocked. Which were Connecticut, the District of Columbia,
Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Vermont,
Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, almost all of them that are, you know, northern.
So if you got label, if you got his dumb label, you just go to Mexico. Move to
Maine or whatever. You go to Illinois. Yeah, you go to a fucking place. That's what's
happening is these people are probably most probably just fucking moving, right?
But they have to sell their house, which is then someone, you know, takes off them
for cheap because they have to fucking leave. It's just they're black. So he was
trying to push those states to get on the racist bandwagon. The white race in
this land is the foundation upon which rests its civilization and is responsible
for the leading position which we occupy amongst the nations of the world. It is
not therefore just and right that this race decide for itself what its
composition shall be and attempt as Virginia has to maintain its purity.
Sure. Sure. Let us turn a deaf ear to those who would interpret Christian
Brotherhood as racial equality. I mean, uh-huh. Sure. That really applies today.
Hey, no, no, come on. Yeah. In what way? Oh, just every way. Walter Plecker also
started to cross out Indian on records and write in colored. Assuming really just
got a game plan. Assuming any Native American in Virginia had Negro blood. So
now he has just decided. Yeah. That every Indian right is black is black. Right. So
he's crossing out the word Indian and writing colored. Yeah. Seems easier for
him. Less paperwork. If they had, if they had a birth certificate that said
Indian. They were black. He would write colored on the back as like a official
not official. Right. Like in crayon. Colored. He did this because because he
didn't believe there any Native Americans left. They had all had sex with
black people at some point. Well, because I said so. How could they not? Because I
said it happened just like the Egyptians. Governor Lee Trinkel asked
Walter to ease up going after the Native Americans and not embarrass them
anymore than possible. I'm totally racist too, but you need to slow the fuck down,
my man. Check it. I get it. I get it. The Indian, their problem. They're black.
They're not. That's the thing. They're not black. Sounds like something a black
could say. Okay. This is where it gets weird. What? Because I just, I'm just
trying to have a discussion with you. Yeah, you are. Everybody starting to
become clear that you have black blood. Everybody tries to talk to you. Or Native
American blood, which is now colored. Governor, everybody tries to have a talk
with you. You say they're black. Oh really? Why? Because those black guys
earlier came over and said that this was a flawed plan. That was Larry and Jim. They're
they're black, you dumbass. Okay. You're all black. Can you, you want to go get a
drink? No. I don't want to either, blackie. Walter held his ground saying he didn't
think it was an injustice for the Bureau to take a stand on mixed marriages or
having them in white schools or to be able to ride in white coaches. Walter
wrote, like rats when you're not watching, they have been sneaking in their
birth certificates through their own midwives given either Indian or white
racial classification. Walter, take a nap. Have some sleep. You know what? You
don't look rested. Do you know what a clonopon is? You don't look like you've
been sleeping. Do you take a fucking clonopon? Just nap. Finally, the governor
backed off. That's how you want that to go. Each local Native American group he
had broken down. Now I'm going to fuck up these names. The, the Pomon Keys were
quote, heavily mixed with Negro and white with a faint trace of Indian. The
Rappahonks, you're breaking it down like a bottle of wine. The Rappahonks were
quote, a group of similar origin that have about the same claim to being Indians.
Of the Chickahummi, he said that quote, their existence as a tribe was a
political trick to enable the white people to maintain control of the county
government Indians not being voters. Right. The Amherst Rockbridge group of about
800 are giving us the most trouble, though actual numbers and persistent
claims of being Indians through. Sorry. Great. So Native Americans suffered
greatly. Shocked. I would have thought that this would have helped. They were
suddenly all just uprooted from white schools. At the time, Native American
schools didn't go past the eighth grade. So now they couldn't go to white
schools anymore. And the black schools were super underfunded and going to them
would just be also a concession that you were not American Indians. So you're
basically saying, admit you're not an Indian motherfucker, admit it. No. Okay,
what you gonna do? Not go to school? Yeah. So then you go to school and that's an
admission of that they were right. Yeah. Because you have to take the lesser of
two evils because the deck is decked against you so highly. Right. Most of
them just left the area to get away from the discrimination. Steven Atkins, now
the chief of the Chickahominy tribe said at the time, we were the third race in a
two-race state. I remember once traveling with my father and we pulled into a gas
station because I had to go to the bathroom and there was one bathroom
marked white and one marked colored. And I said, dad, what do I do? Go pee out on
the street. Yeah. I mean, honestly, pee your pants. In 1924, a Richmond attorney
questioned Walter's authority to change the birth certificate of a woman
classified as Indian before 1924. Walter admitted to the attorney that he didn't
have that power. He wrote, in reality, I've been doing a good deal of bluffing,
knowing all the while that it could never be legally sustained. This is the
first time that my hand has been absolutely called. Well, he was just waiting
to get called out. And even though Walter, Plucker, made this admission, the
attorney kept quiet and never said a thing. I really thought that was gonna be
the thing. And Walter continued his assault. Letter from Walter, December 26th,
1929. He's not fucking working. This is fucking day off. Yeah. It's the day after
Christmas. Yeah. It's when you return the shit you don't want. He's doing this.
Yeah. Dear William Adcock, I received your letter in which you say that we have
decided to lose the last drop of blood we have in us before we will be
classified class as colored. The old records, which we have made by the
Commission of the Revenue for Taxes gives your family history clearly. These
records show that your father was a colored man. Your mother was the daughter
of a recorded mulatto responsible people of Amherst County, now living state.
She was generally known as quote, a little brown skin Negro who lived to be
nearly 100 years old. I want to warn you that the racial integrity law of 1924
makes it a penitentiary offense for anyone with a trace of Negro to marry
a white person or register in the Bureau of Vital Statistics as white. All
midwives or heads of families who attempt to register colored births or
deaths as white are liable to be indicted on a felony charge and marry
Christmas to you sir and happy new year. Also looking forward to the new year with
you. What would you do if you're like related to it? What if this dude is your
great-grandfather? How do you like deal with like not to make this anyone in
this side the victim but you must have such a hard time like you still must
just be like gosh I fucking hate my grandpa ever fuck him and not just like
a racist he's also a pussy yeah he's like a pussy he's just like he's a
pussy right he's just a real big pussy anyone who was getting married or the
relative of someone getting married could just come down to the Bureau to look
up their future husband or wife or in-law and so so you if you didn't like
who your daughter oh yeah so you would you would then go down there and be
like please don't find find some shit on this guy I can make him I want him to
be oh he's an Indian therefore black and this is anyone who wasn't white
anyone he wrote to a Filipino you are classed as colored as well as all
asiatics including Chinese Japanese native of India etc. Japanese I mean
that's honest like now that would almost be a compliment under the law of
Virginia they are not permitted to marry white people and their children be will
be classed as colored sorry your Japanese aka black he wrote to the
superintendent of an orphanage oh boy now they clark and their illegitimate
children in the orphanage are of mixed stock and are not white they are
dangerous for other children in the orphanage keep them away from the almost
whites all of Walter's great work made him a bit of an international celebrity
cool in August 1932 he gave a keynote speech at the third international
conference on eugenics in New York City and attendance was a man named Ernst
Rudin of Germany 11 months later Rudin helped write Hitler's eugenics law well
glad that we helped fun to just have a chair at that table in 1935 Walter wrote
to this been going on for 11 years now dropping the bucket in 1935 Walter wrote
to the director of Germany's Bureau of Human Betterment and eugenics he explained
Virginia's racial purity laws and requested that he be put on a mailing
list for bulletins from the Germans department oh no just give me the
updates when you got them guys love what you're doing over there yeah you get a
new info on on the you know color mixing or whatever you want to call it over
there interesting putting let putting something on their shirt the shirt that's
fun that's fun right he was getting me never thought of that so he's also love
the logo I think that's really something we need some sort of grabbing logo well
that's just it so if he's getting these bulletins yeah and this info yeah he's
getting that information yeah oh for sure yeah he's on the mailing list he's on
the fucking fucking mailing list yes yeah I mean yeah the updates are not
gonna be like interesting cupcake recipe no they're like how to cleanse the
master race even stronger oh you gotta get on the mailing list oh gosh I'll tell
you first of all there's great recipes great recipes fun cartoons to round it up
Jews just the stories very fun he complimented the third Reich for
sterilizing 600 children in Algeria who had black fathers I hope this work is
complete and not one has been missed I sometimes regret that we have not the
authority to put some measures in practice in Virginia he's also annoying
like that's just like an I hope one wasn't missed it's like yeah dude we did
it yeah we don't need your fucking what did you just yeah thanks doing our best
over here yeah we didn't miss one we hope you didn't miss one because they're
black sir when America joined the war Native Americans could register with the
military as Indian and be trained with white troops oh isn't that a fun wrinkle
Walter was not happy about it oh so he spoke to the state selective service
board and they changed their policy so local boards were responsible for
determining quote the ethnic origin of each individual registrant that's so
they were finding a way around it by signing up for the military yeah and he
went down there and even then don't you why would you limit like I've never
understood that when they were when people were like you know you can't like
gay people in the army it's like it's not that they they wouldn't that just
means that they they were mixed with the white troops he just didn't want that
fighting with the white true well that's what I mean but that would that's
almost the same thing that was happening with sexuality like 15 years ago they
were like you can't have gay people around other regular like straight
soldiers quote-unquote regular soldiers because they will gay them up like that
was the theory but then I was always like even if you are a horribly closed
minded person wouldn't you just be like yeah if you want to go fucking try to
kill people on behalf of this you know something I hold true yeah go for it
by the way if you want to see great speech on that in 1993 you see Bernie
Sanders yeah there's someone else who's on the opposite side of that who can't
think of her name oh it's a her he spoke well thank God so he speaks to the
registrants and gets him to change it and then each and every Native American
who signed up for the military Walter would present evidence against their
race at their induction hearing so welcome to the army now I'm gonna prove
that you're not white thank you for signing up for the army also this
gentleman has something he wants to say it's the ultimate you know what man all
right sit down Walt well there's Walter's amped up we're 20 years into this
fuckers reign now quote our December 1942 letter set forth the determined
effort of free miladas of early days so listed prior to 1865 in the United
States Census to escape from the Negro race now for some time they have been
refusing to register with war draft boards as Negroes as required by the
boards three of these Negroes were sentenced to prison on January 12th at
Richmond for refusing to obey the draft law so three guys who go to jail believe
they were white because they're great great grandfather was probably black
and wouldn't say they were white are getting drafted so they're willing to
fight of hair so you just don't want to so they're willing to fight but what
they won't say is that they're not white so they go to prison it just makes so
much sense in 1942 Jesus Christ what the fuck well thank you for your service
but you have to go to jail for not a great fight the Germans no sorry can't
have you blacking it all up so you know a lot of times a black doesn't look
like a black he looks like a white that's what makes my position so hard is
determining the black whiteies right can I my gun now absolutely not you're not
white I'm ready to fight you don't get a gun are you black no are you black no
you like cookies yeah are you black no want a cookie yeah I want a cookie you
black yeah yeah yeah yeah no cookies black man no cookies for blacky in a
1943 letter Walter bragged that Virginia's racial records went back to 1853
quote Hitler's G genealogy study of the Jews is not more complete he's bragging
yeah he's bragging well that his records of black people are better than
Hitler's great don't get me wrong he's great Hitler's great yeah he ain't got
nothing on me but he's not as he's not as thorough as I am Hitler ain't got
nothing on me right by this time he had a massive hit list as he called it it was
surnames by counties and cities of quote mixed Negroid families striving to
pass as Indian or white Albemarle County moon Powell kid
Pumphrey Amherst County Adcox Beverly Branham Duff Floyd Hamilton heartless
Hicks Johns Lawless knuckles painter Ramsey Red Cross Roberts Southerds
Sorals Terry Tyree Willis Clark Cash would all those people that lived in
that county that had those names were classified as black even the knuckle
family even the knuckles wow Jimmy knuckles black even Jimmy knuckles
I knew Jade right yeah but Jade Knuck was my man about a hundred surnames were
listed Jesus Christ Walter Plecker finally retired in May of 1946 at the age
of 85 so he did this for 20 and he gets to retire that's right aggravating yes
when someone's like well I did it you sure my country I made them all black
made a good difference a few months later he was hit by a car and killed still
not bad enough it is not known whether or not the driver was colored or white
but we can only fucking hope yeah that some dude saw him yeah a kid from the
knuckle family yeah some knuckle went there that motherfucker is and ran that
shit head down yeah right has let's just believe that's what happened I would say
it's it's the odds of this dick had dying by getting hit by a car too small I
agree there has to be somebody who is like hey look it's shit for brains there's
no way he people must have hated him so fucking much yeah that there's no way
someone didn't run him over yeah in 1959 the man Walter picked to succeed him
had the racial integrity files destroyed good the schools of Virginia were
integrated in 1963 and in 1967 the United States Supreme Court ruled that
Virginia's racial integrity act violated the Constitution's 14th Amendment
1967 right on time the decision overturned the bans on interracial marriage in
16 states in 1975 the Virginia General Assembly repealed the rest of the racial
integrity act then in February 2001 the legislature of Virginia expressed quote
regret for Virginia's experience with eugenics on fine court house that had a
confederate flag hanging right we are so sorry for that well obviously we don't
want to send mixed messages now get off the steps blackie some problems were
made yes now this wood gentlemen here is still a negroid all right
sounds like the defense of a black man on find a grave calm for Walter
Plecker whoa quote whoa the virtual flowers feature has been turned off for
this memorial because it was being continually misused what is that what
does that mean there's a picture of a frowning flower I guess I guess people
just go into that they're just like because it's can I just buy a bag of
fertilizer but his actions are still causing problems today quote he gained
very close to committing statistical genocide on Native Americans Virginia says
chief William P. Miles of the Pamunkey tribe it's also referred to as paper
genocide in 1930 the US Census recorded 779 Indians in Virginia by 1940 that
number was down to 198 Virginia tribes who want to get federal recognition and
therefore grants for housing health care and education are finding it difficult
because one of the requirements is that the tribes prove their continuous
existence since 1900 which is fucking impossible because of the dickhead
speed bump Walter Plecker purge them as a race on paper that makes getting the
federal money they deserve almost impossible the Palm Monkey were granted
federal recognition by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 2015 oh my god but
they were still opposed and it was fought against by casino interests
particularly MGM so when someone says they don't mind data mining being
collected by the government and the NSA snooping and all that other shit
remember that any other time in the future anything can happen and that
information can be used against you anyway so when someone says oh I don't
mind if the government collects information I'm not doing anything wrong
you might be in the future in the future that's feel that's a feel-good one this
is a happy one that's fun you got hit by a truck or car whatever that's the only
good part after getting away with it it's like Hitler getting hit by a car that
is what that is what sucks though is the idea that somebody doesn't get to see
like at least like you know there there's people who are on the wrong side of
history and they get to see that they're on the wrong had a history side of
history and they get yeah when you it's so much better for that person to live
and watch their legacy destroyed and then have them die yeah right totally yeah
because they let's it's not you want you want like it's not fair that that guy
didn't get some sort of suffering now than being hit by a car he died getting
away with everything and and thinking that it was going to keep going like
thinking that he'd done something right he doesn't get to sort of see the seams
breaking apart he's there no 60s yeah what a prick that's what I couldn't
believe that happened I mean eugenics is it will do eugenics one it's really
fucking sounds fun it's really just you can't believe it's cool you just can't
believe it was so recent this is this shit this is the fucking 40s of this
guy was born World War two this guy's doing this yeah they don't they don't
actually repeal the law until 67 yeah like whites and blacks can get married
67 that's crazy yeah that really is fucking crazy but it's not even like it's
not even like in 67 after they okayed that that it was okay yeah it was still
like a terrible I mean it was still like you know tough if you're black it's still
fucking impossible I would just like to say that we are so lucky that there
wasn't another war yeah I mean seriously the fucking anger and the shit that we
did come on well we're not out of the woods yet David no it's still clearly
ongoing but you would hope it's getting better although I think I think race wise
it on the surface has definitely gotten better but if again you still think
about class like it's classism and the way that they sort of now stack the deck
against you is that you know they affect the like a lot you know that they
affect the classes and they make it so that it's impossible for a class of
people to vote in these elections right but really when you look at what that
class is it's you know predominantly non-white races right so I mean you know
there's it's it's just a different version of it's like a more I guess a
more acceptable version of it now because it's not so easy to determine
exactly what it is it's not so easy as saying it's a race you're trying to
undercut it's more that you're just disenfranchising a class of people right
it's pretty we still do that and we still I mean again you think again like
think about the voting lines for this I mean it's just like they the way that
they keep the voting lines in Arizona set seven hours to there and even then
there's still so much bullshit so it's like even when you the system is quote
unquote fixed it's still tremendously rigged and tremendously there's still
so many black people who or you know again non-white races that have so much
fucking trouble getting their voice heard and the reason is that when their
voice is heard it so strongly goes against the establishment trying to
undercut them that it affects the status quo well I think if we're learning
anything from this election it's that the their time is limited I fucking hope
so that's why I would say to say that we're out of the woods on a war I don't
think we're talking about another race war but again it's it's this new it's
this new class they've created like you've created the uber rich right the
very rich and then the poor yeah I don't I don't think we're gonna have a race
war but I don't know what's going to happen because right now anybody who if
you there's warning signs in history and and there's tons of there's tons of
countries that have over history ignored the will of the people and America
has done so to such a great extent particularly in the last 20 years like
basically flaunting it yeah that if you if you vote like I get there's Trump's
out there there's always other people if you vote for the establishment which is
your right to do because you think it's the best way understand that four or
eight more years of what we've gone through is compounding the problem so I
think we're in a no-win situation that's my that's my I think there is we're
literally in a no-win situation so yeah we could go to violence America's a
violent country something has to give something it's gonna be we haven't even
started to worry about water fully I know it's gonna be so weird something will
I mean something has to give and again you think about like I mean we've
obviously this nation has talked about gun control for a long time well what's
gonna happen when you do have an armed citizenship that is live it at its
government and doesn't trust that I mean they're gonna turn on each other but
it's also not gonna be a fun time if you're these people who have completely
fucked everything up like there there's going to be repercussions there was there
was a guy on NPR I wish I had the old interview but there was a billionaire
who was being interviewed on NPR a couple years ago and they kept trying to ask
some questions and his only response was they're going to drag us off our yachts
and kill us right and that's all he would say like every time they kept trying
to ask a question he goes you don't understand they're gonna drag us off our
yachts and kill us like this guy it's just history history history look
history isn't a roadmap it doesn't tell you what's gonna happen but it leans
towards certain things and what's happening right now is leaning toward
very bad things I'm not saying it's gonna end in a war of violence I don't know
what's gonna end up in but the control that they have to relinquish it good luck
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