Reddit reviews The Origin of Races

Also, the book cited in a few of the images ("The Origin of Races") was written based on essentially false data which happened to fit with racist ideals of its time. But looking at the few reviews on Amazon, apparently "political correctness" has taken over and wants to deny the "fact" that African people are simply less-evolved, at least according to the people making racist comments there.

The citation on #1 is actually correctly cited, though there are more nuanced things to learn from that data than simply "black people are all criminals!"

Also, the citation on #2 doesn't provide anything on marital status of any pregnancies, so it looks like they decided that any citation is good enough, even if the data aren't related to what they claim.

The page for #3 doesn't say anything about the number of slaves in Sudan, nor any comparison to American slavery.

Number 5's citation doesn't say anything that I could see about the percentage of non-white males arrested or charged with a felony. It's simply a breakdown of the number of arrests for various crimes, with no population data.

Number 7's citation doesn't appear to load for me.

Number 8's citation shows a lower number than claimed in the image (39% rather than 51%)

Number 11's citation says 69% of those infected with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa. But that's not really new news, considering that HIV first transferred to humans in Africa. Nor does the citation say that all sub-Saharan HIV carriers are black.

Number 12's citation doesn't break down any welfare statistics by race, and the data came only from Texas and Minnesota.

I don't have anywhere near enough time to delve into the large amounts of data in #13's citation.

At this point I stopped going into their citations, since it's really not worth spending any more of my time debunking things in these racist images.

I have traveled to many different countries. But none of the African countries. I know that their crime rates are actually UNDER represented. The Economist recently did a piece saying 99% of murders in Mexico are unsolved. In South Africa they think between 1/10 and maybe even more than 1/100 rapes are not reported as many men think that to cure their aids they have to rape an infant.

Thanks for taking the time to give a book recommendation as well, will read!

I do not want to be a racist, I was much happier when I wasn't racist and was sheltered. Being racist is tiring and angering.

The Origin of Races by Carleton Coon is a book I've read and I'm not sure what to do now.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Origin-Races-Carleton-Coon/dp/0394301420