@deadwronghistory1: In 1957 — while Jim Crow was law across the South — a forensic psychiatrist went on live TV to say race has nothing to do with crime. The book he references — "Genetics and the Races of Man" — was written by William C. Boyd, an immunochemist at Boston University who spent years surveying blood type distributions across global populations. Boyd's discovery was blunt: the racial categories society enforces don't match any biological pattern. You can't tell someone's blood type by looking at their skin. That invisibility was exactly the point. Boyd co-authored a follow-up book, "Races and People," in 1955 — with Isaac Asimov. Science fiction's most famous writer and a blood-type immunologist writing together to dismantle racist biology. It didn't make the news. The year this aired: 1957. The same year as the Little Rock Crisis, when Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to escort nine Black students into an Arkansas high school under a screaming mob. While that was happening on one channel, this psychiatrist was on another, saying minority crime rates are caused by oppression — not biology. The argument he was making wasn't new to academia. It was new to television. Boyd died in 1983. The argument about race and crime is still being had today. #History #deadwronghistory #1957 #civilrights #race #crime #forensicpsychiatry #vintage #archivefootage #BlackHistory #historicalfacts #jimcrow

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