T.H. Huxley was racist (Talk.Origins)

Claim CA005.3:

Thomas H. Huxley was racist. He said,

"No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average negro is equal...of the white man. And if this be true, it is simply incredible that, when all his disabilities are removed...he will be able to compete successfully with his bigger-brained and smaller-jawed rival, in a contest which is to be carried out by thoughts and not by bites."

Source:
 * Morris, Henry M. 1973. Evolution and modern racism. ICR Impact #7. Oct 1, 1973.
 * Foust, Scott, 2005. Evolution perpetuates racist ideologies. The News Record (Cincinnati), Feb. 14, 2005.

CreationWiki response:

It's a puzzling thing why Talk.Origins feels the need to "refute" this at all, since according to him it is irrelevant to the "science" of evolution. But note that the author doesn't actually attempt to say that Thomas Huxley wasn't racist; he just tried to justify his racism.

Just like with Darwin, Talk.Origins is saying, "Everyone was doing it." It doesn't matter what everyone else was saying: the point is that Huxley was racist.

Talk.Origins is, for some reason, favoring a quote from someone saying something about him rather than the obvious quote from Huxley himself. We should also note that the quote from Huxley was in 1865, a year after Taylor said this about him. This means that Huxley didn't later change his mind.

Not so fast there. People bring presuppositions to the evidence. It is very relevant to analyze the views of evolutionists and creationists alike.

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