The Crypto Circassians of the Caucus & The Pseudo Science of Race
Our comprehesion of ourselves and our world has been damaged by unscientific concepts of racial identity. They are rooted in the bleached soil of strong feelings and manufactured facts.
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752 - 1840) was a German pseudo-scientist that I was first exposed to through Boogie Down Productions’ 1989 music video for its Ghetto Music: Blueprint of Hip-Hop single, “You Must Learn.”
I consider it one of the greatest hip-hop music videos of all time. Check it out below if you’ve never seen it.