Brian Griffith's Blog - Posts Tagged "prejudice"

In the 1990s, as India's nationalists for a Hindu state grew more politically powerful, the Telegu poet Khadar Mohiuddin wrote of what it was like for himself and his fellow Muslims:

My religion is a conspiracy
My prayer meetings are a conspiracy
My lying quiet is a conspiracy
My attempt to wake up is a conspiracy
My desire to have friends is a conspiracy
My ignorance, my backwardness, a conspiracy
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

By 1930, naturalist Vernon Bailey noted the effect of extermination campaigns on coyote evolution: "After many years of persistent hunting … and the constant warfare of stockmen … who never miss an opportunity to kill a coyote, the numbers in most localities are apparently as great today as they were in 1889 … In full view of the evidence, then, man’s blind intolerance leads him to continue to kill coyotes … constantly selecting for intelligence in this species."
War and Peace with the Beasts: A History of Our Relationships with Animals