Listen and Learn: Carleton Putnam speech from 1961

[Bronk]

Carleton Putnam has been dropped down the memory hole because he was at odds with the idea of racial equality, but in his time he was one of the foremost intellectual defenders of the idea through the 1960s.

Putnam was a well-born New Yorker with roots deep in New England history. A Princeton man and graduate of Columbia University Law School, he created a major airline and wrote an much acclaimed biography of Theodore Roosevelt. Driven by opposition to the Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation decision (Brown vs Topeka Board of Education), turned out a classic defense of racial segregation with his 1961 book, Race and Reason, a Yankee View.

Written for the average man, Race and Reason presents calm, authoritative arguments that are as persuasive today as they were 50 years ago. "Putnam never overstated his case or drove his conclusions beyond what the scientific data permit," noted Jared Taylor.

Here is a recording of a speech by Putnam in Jackson, Mississippi from Nov. 21, 1961, listen and learn:

http://www.archive.org/details/CarletonPutnamRaceAndReasonDaySpeech102661

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Thanks for posting this link, Bronk! I really like to hear old audio clips like this.

 

[Liverlips]

Thanks man! Men like Putnam, Stoddard, Grant, Weaver and others were true heroes. They tried their best to save us from the hell of Black-Run-America.

 

[Bronk]

I would like to point out that much of Putnam's viewpoint was based upon the work of Harvard and Penn anthropologist Carleton Coon who wrote The Races of Europe, The White Race and the New World and The Origin of the Races. Coon believed that different racial types fought for domination and annihilation of other types. He asserted that Europe was the refined product of a long history of racial progression. He also argued that races had a natural inclination for separatism.

Coon was president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists when the organization voted to censure Race and Reason. When he asked who among those wanting to censure Putnam's book had actually read it, only one hand went up. At that point Coon resigned from the organization.

Putnam's 1967 book Race and Reality is available for download here:
http://www.jrbooksonline.com/putnam.htm

Caste members need to know these men and their works. They helped lay some of the intellectual foundation for commonly held and argued beliefs that appear here.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Thanks for the info, Bronk. I'm definitely going to buy some of the classic works like those.

 

[Anak]

Caste members need to know these men and their works. They helped lay some of the intellectual foundation for commonly held and argued beliefs that appear here.

The best one along this vein is "Which Way Western Man?" by William Gayley Simpson.

http://www.archive.org/details/WhichWayWesternMan
or
http://www.amfirstbooks.com/IntroPa...rs/Simpson,_William_Gayley/simpson_index.html

Stoddard was already mentioned, "The Revolt Against Civilization" is a must read.

 

[Deus Vult]

Bronk, thank you very, very much for posting this Carleton Putnam speech! Everyone should listen to the speech, and also read "Race And Reason" and "Race And Reality."