Historic skulls of Black Americans to be repatriated by Penn Museum

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In the 1800s, Dr. Samuel Morton collected skulls in an attempt to find an anthropological basis for white supremacy. This week a University of Pennsylvania museum issued an apology for possessing the skulls and outlined a plan to repatriate them. WHYYNews

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“Penn admits that this is harmful. That’s useful as an apology, but I think the apology has to be more robust,” said Abdul-Aliy Muhammad, a co-founder of the Black and Brown Workers Cooperative. “There’s a commitment to a conversation with community, but we want a commitment to have the community on this committee, and not just Penn people. Right now, as it stands, [it] is only Penn staff.”

One of the challenges of sending these skulls back where they belong is determining where exactly that is. Only one skull is identified by name: a man named John Voorhees, according to Mitchell’s paper. Morton did not keep records identifying the skulls, only that they were from Black people.

 

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DrKillgrove WHYYNews Pity! He was a man of his time and history should not be rewritten and distorted. Better to show 20th century enlightenment through a visual refutation of the theory displayed alongside. This is sloppy scholarship and a university should be ashamed of its lack of academic rigour

WHYYNews Scientific racism led directly to the Holocaust. This is a good idea.

WHYYNews Will be kinda spooky to get a package in the mail containing grandpa's skull....

WHYYNews Imagine if God is a black or brown Amazon woman judging racist bigots, fracturing their skulls to study if the brain she gave them had turned into a blob of snotty jello! racism bigotry beauty

WHYYNews This is gruesome.

WHYYNews Morton🤡

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WHYYNews So stupid. No apology needed. It’s a historical collection.

WHYYNews Triggered conservatives: 'Now they're cancelling skulls!'

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WHYYNews It's hard repatriating skulls - I've kind of gotten involved in it - but it's the ultimate white person problem

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WHYYNews An apology is not necessary. History is past, we learn from it and move forward.

WHYYNews WOW!

WHYYNews Omg....no.words.

justice4all01 WHYYNews Thankfully the Human Genome proves Phrenology, Physiognomy & all those attempts at the pseudo-science of 'scientific racism' were, as we knew in our hearts, false. Reparations for the evils of 'white supremacism' are due, with interest + treble damages:

WHYYNews He should have followed the evidence of advanced intelligence all the way back to where it was birthed: Africa. The home of my ancestors and your's.

WHYYNews Taking this long to make this right is shameful. Especially by a university.

WHYYNews Is that orange bloats college? Lmao!!!!!!

WHYYNews Thanks for information. 🙏

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WHYYNews RepScottPerry must be a descendant of Samuel Morton, because they do really think alike, very bigoted and ethnocentric in the extreme.

WHYYNews Did he find the secret

WHYYNews Misappropriation runs this deep: a skull drudgery. AncientPain

WHYYNews The Bible condemns all White supremacy 2 cor 5:16 So from now on we know no man from a fleshly viewpoint. Rom 8:13 for if you live according to the flesh, you are sure to die America is marinated in this lie and God condemns it

WHYYNews White people: f*cked up DNA.

WHYYNews thank you very much for your work

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