Jaw-Dropping

I’ve mentioned the Online Books Page before. Then, it was in the context of a Lucky Dip – you never quite knew what you were going to come up with. Well, of course, sometimes you reach in and pull out something that is not pleasant at all. Today, for example, I felt as though I’d reached in and pulled out a large steaming turd. The library index contains a reference to a book published in 1907: Robert W. Shufeldt’s The Negro, A Menace To American Civilization. Jaw-dropping racism that quite takes the breath away. The book has been collected online in a web site that seems to have other, er, interesting treatises. Enter at your own risk.