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This is a bit long, but it's worth it. From Duke's "My Awakening", Chapter 9, The Roots of Racial Difference. There is a link below if you want to download the book.

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At the age of 10 I kept two white female rats in our garage in a large wooden box that I had built. It had a wood frame and fine-grade chicken-wire top that fit poorly. On a spring day, I discovered that one of my rats was showing signs of gestation. Even though I did not understand it, I supposed that I had mistaken a male rat for a female. I couldn't understand why the father looked so female, for I had a lot of familiarity with White rats, raising and selling them to the local pet stores and the Woolworth's store near my home.

The babies were finally born little pink sacks with four extruding legs and eager mouths but just outlines of closed eyes and ears. Each day I played with the little ones, but as they grew older they seemed decidedly different from their mother and the other rat whom I presumed must be their father. As they began to grow their new coats, the fur grew out not white but gray. More dramatically, their behavior seemed strange as well.

By the time they reached a few weeks old, equivalent to a human's teenage years, no matter how often I held them, the brood acted increasingly wild and uncontrollable. They had differences that went much further than simply the gray color of their coats. Their wildness progressed to the point that whenever I put my hand into the cage, the sawdust and wood shavings went flying as they scattered fearfully from the very same human hand that had lovingly fondled and petted them from birth. They were fast, excitable, quick to bite and physically superior to the domesticated breed. Pet white rats are very passive, slow-moving, deliberate creatures, whereas their wild rat cousins are excitable, lightning quick, aggressive and violent.

Finally I came to the realization that both white rats in the cage were actually female and that a wild rat had gnawed and squeezed into the wooden cage and mated with one of them.

A few years later, as I studied the realities of human race, I understood fully that the different breeds of rats are the genetic equivalent of human races. Breeding can occur between different races, even when there may still be dramatic genetic differences between them. The contrast between races can be in physical or psychological traits and in social or individual behavior. The behavior of those half-white, half-wild rats obviously was not a result of their environment. I had provided them with the same nurturing as for my white rats. In fact, they were suckled by their white rat mother and raised with two white rat females and constant human intervention, but their behavior was wild.

As a teenager looking into the race question, I looked back on the rat episode of a few years earlier. It seemed obvious that the difference in the behavior of my rats was wholly the result of genetics. The fact that the environment for the mixed-breed rats was the same as that for the completely domesticated ones suggested that there was a physical difference between the brains and hormones of the domesticated white rats and those of the breed of half-wild, gray rats. These genetic differences had powerful behavioral effects.


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