The staff of the Jim Crow Museum receives dozens of letters and emails. Some of these communiques offer insight into race relations -- historically and in the present. We have decided to share some of these letters and emails with our Internet visitors.***
Are these facts in the museum:

The negro skull, in addition to having a smaller brain volume and thicker cranial bones than that of the White, is prognathous ; i.e., the lower face projects forward in the manner of an animal's muzzle. The negro jaw is substantially longer, relative to its width, than the White jaw. A feature of the negro lower jaw is its retention of a vestige of the "simian shelf," a bony region immediately behind the incisors. The simian shelf is a distinguishing characteristic of apes, and it is absent in Whites.

They emit a peculiar offensive body odor similar to apes.

Just as their black skin protected them from the intense African sun, they are inherently lazy in order to prevent over exertion in that intense sun.

The arms and legs of the negro are relatively longer than the European. The humerus is shorter and the forearm longer thereby approximating the ape form.

The eye often has a yellowish scierotic coat over it like that of a gorilla.

The negro has a shorter trunk; the cross-section of the chest is more circular than Whites. Similar to an ape.

The pelvis is narrower and longer as it is in an ape.

The negro has a larger and shorter neck akin to that of apes.

The ears are roundish, rather small, standing somewhat high and detached thus approaching the ape form.

The jaw is larger and stronger and protrudes outward which, along with lower retreating forehead, gives a facial angle of 68 to 70 degrees, like an ape, as opposed to a facial angle of 80 to 82 degrees for Europeans.

The three curvatures of the spine are less pronounced in the negro than in the white and thus more characteristic of an ape.

The two bones proper of the nose are occasionally united, as in apes.

Taxonomists and geneticists believe that negros should be classified as different species. In fact, Darwin declared in The Descent of Man that the negros are so distinct that similar differences found in any other animal would warrant their classification as a different species.

References:
Coon, Carleton S. The Origin of Races, 1962, Alfred A. Knopf
Howells, William. Mankind So Far, Doubleday, Garden City, NY
Weisman, Charles A. The Origins of Race and Civilization, 1990

R. Jones
No location given
-- April 24, 2012

https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/letters/2012/apes.htm

Mynd44, seun

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Erm...to anyone reading this...the link and page will take you to the Jim Crow Museum...which is a museum devoted to the study of racism in the USA prior to the Civil rights era.

The letter quoted above is one of the racist letters and emails that come into the university museum from time to time. Obviously the university nor the museum does not approve of them.

Relax. Nothing to see here.

Kasssandra:
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Erm...to anyone reading this...the link and page will take you to the Jim Crow Museum...which is a museum devoted to the study of racism in the USA prior to the Civil rights era.

The letter quoted above is one of the racist letters and emails that come into the university museum from time to time. Obviously the university nor the museum does not approve of them.

Relax. Nothing to see here.

yes I know that but there should be clarification on the page stating that the university is quoting verbatim and do not agree with the content of the page. People can easily be misinformed reading that without footnotes or explanation.