Rigo:Yeah, and it claimed that Black people were a threat to civilization, and that they should be repatriated back to Africa. They had to have two talking heads, and, and somebody had to speak for the other side for them to get their message out, and not only did I understand that, but I don't think that we run this. Rigo:By keeping the race science flame alive, they created a foundation for the current wave of race scientists to build on. It's kind of a fitting name because he was born into a wealthy family in 1891. Sam Harris:People don't want to hear that intelligence is a real thing, and that some people have more of it than others, and they certainly don't want to hear the average IQ differs across races and ethnic groups. Barry Mehler on Donohue:I gave a press conference and he came to hear me and I gave a paper and afterwards we sat down for a cup of coffee together and he said, Barry, you made some excellent points, but this Neo Nazi business, I mean, I know these people, you talking about stand up guys. And I said, Phil, you're in a stand up. But what Barry Mehler did was to go deeper. It was clear that the anti Semitism was everywhere about me. Who's funding him? They distributed one of Hitler's propaganda films to American high schools with English subtitles. Jensen's vague ideas about intelligence being inherited were explicitly connected to the growing neo Nazi movement. Lisa:I appreciate how clearly Barry Mehler gets to the heart of the issue. Title of Larger Work The Phil Donahue Show Collection Title Collected Works of Milton Friedman Project records Guest Friedman, Milton (1912-2006) Host Donahue, Phil Publication Type(s) Interviews & TV Appearances. WebPhil Donahue Show interviews, 1984 - Archives & Manuscripts at Duke University Libraries Back to top John O'Toole papers, 1954-1990 and undated Correspondence, 1968-1990 and undated Phil Donahue Show interviews, 1984 Phil Donahue Show interviews, 1984 Containers: Box 21 Using These Materials Info for Visitors How to Request Ordering I never wasted a trip. There's two things that were going on. I mean, I wish that some of the millions of people who watch that video would, like, learn about his work, his life's work. Rigo: The Spanish Civil War was used by the Nazi's as a military testing ground and Draper wanted to be part of it. 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The real scientists. Rigo:It seems like it's, like, um, kind of click bait-y television for the time. Rigo:So this incident sent Mehler on a path. Published through Distillations, the Science History Institutes highly acclaimed digital content platform, the project examines the scientific origins of support for racist theories, practices, and policies. The result: Donahue, the longest running syndicated talk show in television history with its 29 year on-air reign. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. This is why the book claims blacks are disproportionately living in poverty and also more likely to commit crime. In this episode, Harris explains his reasoning for having Murray on the show. If it is your nonprofit, add a problem That is the foundation for the claims that African-American people on average are intellectually inferior to whites. Search the history of over 797 billion WebEmployment at the Library & Archives. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Not only was the war not over, but the Nazis were still out to get my son. Rigo:Yeah. By being the first and most vocal critical of The Pioneer Fund and neo Nazis, it made him a target. Why would I publish under a pseudonym? And apparently Draper was also kind of shy. He teaches at a college no one's heard of, and he's on a Donahue to debate Rushton. It gets stranger. Americans were getting spooked by what they saw in Germany. The American Breed: Nazi eugenics and the origins of the Pioneer Fundby Paul Lombardo, The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fundby William Tucker, The New Eugenics: Academic Racism in the U.S. Todayby Barry Mehler, Superior: The Return of Race Scienceby Angela Saini. Richard Lynn was the editor of the Mankind Quarterly at this time. It's standard journalism practice to reach out to people if you're gonna talk about them. Barry:The word pioneer has a real meaning to these people. It goes on so prominently that, uh, when this book arrives on the desk of members of Congress, Theodore, uh, Bilbo, infamous Mississippi senator known by his biographer as the arch angel of white supremacy, he praises the book, and he actually takes it to the floor of Congress and reads it while the filibuster is going on to prevent federal law against lynching being passed. People were throwing money at him. I can't imagine how Barry Mehler feels watching this all explode and then kind of die down and become less controversial again. And that's one of the things that The Pioneer Fund was able to do was to create outlets so that they could publish, they could review each other, they could support each other, and they could create this sense that this is a legitimate academic enterprise when, in fact, in the legitimate academic world, nobody was even aware that they existed. This episode examines a much more overt kind of scientific racism: by telling the story of a racist, wealthy, underground confederacythat has funded nearly every race scientist out there. Rigo: Now, Rushton tries to avoid mentioning the crux of the argument, but Donahue kind of does a translation. I was the only one really putting together these strands because I was reading the racist newspapers. Barry:They have their own printing presses, their own journals. MOO32 Rigo:William Shockley didn't try to hide his connection to The Thunderbolt. I have a position at Ferris State University. He also shares the story of meeting wife Marlo Thomas, how he feels about being parodied on Saturday Night Live, and what he really thinks of Oprah Winfrey. Rigo:Bill Tucket says that when Shockley came out as a racist in the 1960s, The Pioneer Fund must have felt like they won the lottery without even buying a ticket. 5639 episodes The precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. Phil Donahue's show started off similar to other shows of its day, featuring celebrities and musical acts, So, [laughter] that's how I knew the police didn't do it, because if they had done it, they would have done it right. The pioneer fund has been the key source of funding for the last 20 years of scientists who have produced the material. 7 (July, 1991) Cross-Port InnerView, Vol. They are acutely aware that they're talking about the survival of the white race the same way as we talk about the survival of the polar bears, you know, and of the whales, and of the elephants. If there was one drop of quote, "negro blood" then you were automatically a negro. Barry:I've had a sense of urgency that goes back a very, very long time. Barry:It was apparent to me that we were putting on a show, and that I was part of this show, and I was performing a- an important task for the racist platform because they couldn't do it without me. He called it The Case of Barry Mehler. They weren't seeing the things that Barry was seeing, so Mehler goes down the rabbit hole of white supremacist literature, and what he finds shocks him even more. Episode 4from the Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race series. Used with permission. Uh, the Harvard Educational Review article that he wrote, How Much Can We Boost IQ, you know, there was At the time, I was working at little Head Start in Spanish Harlem, and we would feed the children breakfast, and Arthur Jensen was argued, "It really isn't gonna change their IQ whether you feed them breakfast or not.". The Pioneer Fund was just handing over cash. So I want to take you back to the 1990s with this video that I found on YouTube. The thesis advanced by authors, Charles Murray and the late Richard Herrnstein in the bell curve is that I Q is the best predictor of a person's success. Lisa:So just setting the scene again for people listening, we're watching The Phil Donahue Show. He took off his kippah and pretended he wasn't Jewish, and he embedded himself with neo Nazis. Their desire is to have a platform to disseminate their ideas, and we would be giving them platform if we allow them to speak to here. So, Lisa, I know that you've done some research on eugenics because we've done other episodes that touch on it. He's even polished when he starts talking about things like sex. And I decided I wanted to become a rabbi, and my father thought that was a terrific idea, and, and I transferred to a Jewish parochial school, and I began to wear the kippah on my head. WebThe Phil Donahue Show [remove] 9; American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) 2; Be All You Want to Be 2; International Foundation for This is Bill Tucker. Phil Donahue Book In 1971, he became the chair of the Department of Anthropology and Comparative Religious Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi. Rigo:Somebody painted a swastika on his mailbox. She says that this is something anthropologists have been saying for years, that the category of race itself wasn't a real scientific category but race scientists weren't ready to let it go. He was the first person to really call them out publicly. Library & Archives Newsletter. Hagley Library is engaged in ongoing efforts to address and responsibly present evidence of oppression and injustice in our collections. Rigo: Barry Mehler's TV appearances made Roger Pearson furious. Quote, "On two points, I put The Thunderbolt ahead of much of the American press. Rigo:Right, exactly. Lisa:What is this, Wheel of Fortune? WebDescription: Talk show host of the 1980s. Lisa:Right. He was also tracking another person who raised red flags for him, someone who was very important to The Pioneer Fund and the neo Nazi movement. 5 (May, 1992) Improving Our Image Powerpoint Our Sorority Issue 15 (April 1987) Phyllis Frye and Phil Donahue TV Guise Vol. Ultimately, the Holocaust showed the world the inevitable consequences of eugenics, and there was a great moral reckoning, which led to in agreement about race and race science. Bill:Draper guarded his own identity very, very carefully so that very few people knew of who was this, uh, multimillionaire who behind the scenes was putting up the money. Rigo:So he writes a series of articles in the late 1970s exposing people like Jensen, and then in 1983, he writes a paper called The New Eugenics in which he puts all these race academics into context. Yes, and then these checks were often for ample amounts in the thousands of dollars to people, uh, just because Draper or Pioneer liked what they were doing. But unfortunately for Mehler, this was not the end of it. I was right about the cabal in the basement. In 1936, Draper paid to reprint 1,000 copies of the book called White America to send to politicians. Rigo:Yes. The Science History Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization registered in the U.S. under EIN: 22-2817365. The guy on the left is Philippe Rushton. Rigo:Kind of, yeah. They understood that tides were turning but they weren't ready to go away. It's kind of a misunderstanding, or a misuse of Darwin's theory of evolution, and it's actually interesting that it's Darwin's cousin, his half cousin, Sir Francis Galton, who really advocates for this idea of genetic determinism. Lisa:I can only imagine what a book with that title is gonna be about. Lisa:So basically Mehler's kitchen table would have been filled with racist propaganda hate mail 24/7 365? Barry:I took the racists seriously and I listened directly to them, and what I would simply do is, um, I would join. All views expressed by interviewees are theirs alone and not necessarily those of the Television Academy. They decided that Jensen and Shockley should work together, and throughout that partnership, Jensen's ideas change. Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter for the latest And I really don't think that that was a winning strategy. Bill:The Mankind Quarterly is a very interesting publication. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. And I wasn't just calling them Nazis, I was putting out a context to show that this was a fascist endeavor, and that these people were not only Neo Nazis, but they were just old fashioned Nazis, and I think that it was one of the reasons why they hated me so much. What he's just been talking about. He had his own moment on the Phil Donahue Show in 1980. Lisa:They just have to keep at it 'til the temperature changes. WebPhil Donahue was born on December 21, 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Innate Themecomposed by Jonathan Pfeffer. I mean, I was never anybody really. I, Issue 2 (May, 1991) Twenty Minutes (August, 1991) Lisa:So is The Pioneer Fund involved with Murray and The Bell Curve? Rigo:One of the people to receive the most money from Draper and the Pioneer Fund was the founder of the Mankind Quarterly, Roger Pearson. 1 No. The precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. No one asked any embarrassing questions, you know-. Ah, Barry Mehler. WebDonahue is joined by the cast of "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of The Desert", as well as the Family Research Institute's founder, Paul Cameron, and drag performer CoCo A eugenics cabal forms with this eugenics interested rich guy, and we get The Pioneer Fund, and they begin implementing this playbook, but at the same time, they've kind of been driven underground because public attitudes about eugenics are shifting so they want to keep doing this work, but they've got to do it on the down low. He wrote the Funding of Scientific Racism. Then I, I trust you believe there are others. Barry:I came across Roger Pearson right away, I mean really early on. Let me read this. In Silicon Valleys renegade days, a hardheaded Texan chased dreams of a flying car. WZZM:We begin tonight with that viral video filled with profanity made by a long time Ferris state university, professor. And you're a Neo Nazi and he added you back. If you would like more information, please contact askhagley@hagley.org. Los Angeles - 1985 - Janet Leigh Jamie Lee Curtis.ia.mp4, Donahue. He went to rallies and talked to white supremacists. And when I say a Nazi magazine, the logo literally had a swastika in it, and then he wrote an article that claimed that Jews had started World War II, and they were trying to exterminate the Germans so they were the victims. Rigo:When Barry Mehler said guys like Philippe Rushton aren't just Neo Nazis, they're old fashioned Nazis, he was serious. Barry:We had DEFCON levels at my house, levels of security. He's a psychologist and a professor who's won a bunch of awards. Phil Donahue's show started off similar to other shows of its day, featuring celebrities and musical acts, but he soon started pushing the envelope by discussing health and social topics previously considered taboo. Talk about context and urgency, that is what people understood, and that's why they were so upset at what I was doing. Uploaded by This was also done to make it seem like there were more race scientists than there actually were. John Wayne appears on a 1976 episode of Donahue in front of an audience largely populated by women, and he discusses his life, his career, his stint as a singing cowboy, Ronald Reagan, impressionists, pornography, and much more. Lisa:Okay, let me zoom out a little bit. How did people receive this? Lisa:It works sort of like a bat signal, but instead of attracting superheroes, you uncover white supremacists. McNeil/Leher Report:Race remains one of this country's most divisive topics and a controversial book with racially charged findings hasn't helped the debate. Is it because the Mankind Quarterly wasn't as known, like you kind of had to, like, know what it was? It's to get the message out, "You can't go through the Jews because they distort everything.". Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Rigo:Yeah, and he got cover stories in the New York Times magazine, Newsweek, and The New Republic. About | Browse this Partner Contact Us In his four-and-a-half hour Archive interview, Phil Donahue describes the meandering path that led to hosting his long-running talk show, The Phil Donahue Show aka Donahue. He left most of his money to The Pioneer Fund, much to the chagrin of his close family, and The Pioneer Fund handed out more money two years after his death than in the entire period of 1937 to 1972. It was the first talk show that included audience participation and ran for 29 years on national TV. Rigo:Okay, here's one. So, what it suggested was that Draper and Pioneer really took the initiative in every case, and reached out to these people, and tried to subsidize them once it realized that these were people who were doing things that would be of interest to Pioneer's agenda. 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