Carl T. Rowanwrote a piece which appeared in the July 3 , 1976 Stevens Point Daily Journal ( Stevens Point , WI ) style , “ Sees hatred yet a century hence . ”
Rowan cover offspring of racialism , eugenics and elitism in the century leading up to the United States tricentennial . The composition appears below in its totality .
GALAXY SPACE STATION ( July 4 , 2076 ) – At least 120 child and a spaceship driver were laser - beamed to last yesterday when Galaxians repair to violence to seek to prevent the spaceshipping of school youngster here from the preponderantly black Stardust Space Station a few thousand land mile aside .
The above may strike you as a highly unbelievable news show story to mark the celebration of America ’s tricentennial . But it sums up what I see as I honor a request from Portland , Ore. , that I look into my crystallization formal and peek at human relations a century from now .
The people of 2076 ( if any survive ) will have made scientific progression so incredible that millions will have liberated themselves from Mother Earth and her finite resource such as water , nutrient , petroleum , coal . But they will only prove that while human get smarter they do n’t maturate knowing .
Those who become the unexampled pioneers , seeking a richer life on space stations beyond our polluted air , will be burdened by hatreds , bias and fears as old - fashioned as those that bedevil Americans in the days of Jefferson Davis and Harriet Beecher Stowe .
Racism , superpatriotism , snobbism , avaritia will still reign human affairs despite unbelievable developments in genetic engineering – plus chemicals and fresh operative techniques designed to master the understanding , and alter the behavior , personality and mood of 21st 100 man and woman .
The the true is that , in seeking to alter gene , chromosomes and every other basic element of human life so as to produce a super race – and who is superscript intellectually , morally , physically . Those deemed subscript will observe their syndicate designate to vanish in one generation . By 2076 only the elite group will be permitted to procreate , and even then under carefully monitor circumstances .
Blacks wound up predominant on the Stardust Space Station , in fact , having escaped to this outer - space refuge when hearsay spread that genetic engineers had ordered the extinction of all the “ deficient blacks . ” According to the posterity of a duad of twentieth 100 “ scholars , ” William Shockley and Arthur Jensen , blacks and other “ minorities ” were pulling down the rational quality of the whole human subspecies .
call up , now , this is the crystal ball reporting .
Believe me , if I could mold the crystal ball I ’d show you a 2076 order in which hoi polloi pasture in color from goat ’s milk to double over cocoa finally regain interdependence of regard and a gumption of love that gives them a kind of security no sail missiles and B-1 hoagie will ever provide .
But every time I agitate my crystal clod and say , “ Do n’t be absurd ! Even a species as dumb as homo sapiens will determine a direction to justify itself from bigotry in 100 years , ” that quartz ball flashes rearward two or three centuries to prove otherwise . I see Christians and Moslems killing each other , as now . And Germans and Frenchmen in conflict generation after coevals . And Catholics and Protestants in brutal battle that no transit of clip erases in topographic point like Northern Ireland . The Jew - hater of a millenary ago vocalise just like Spiro Agnew . Racial violence in Boston in 1976 arising from cacoethes of bigotry no less vivid than those that spawn a riot in Wilmington , N.C. , 78 twelvemonth before , or in Atlanta 70 year before .
That crystal clump keeps contradicting all variety of affair that I have written . More than 24 years ago , in my preface to “ South of Freedom , ” I write ; “ I do not believe that man was born to detest and be hate ; I can not believe that the race problem is an inevitable concomitant of popular life history . ”
That crystallization ball flashes into 2076 and tells me that in 1951 , or is it that I [ now ] have an old crystal ball which is disillusioned , clouded with pessimism , unable to see human beings ’s potential for rising up next to the angels ?
See also : Future shock absorber – peel colour ( 1972)The Tricentennial Report : Letters from America ( 1977)Lisa ’s film of 2076 ( 1976)Tricentennial Report Ad ( Oakland Tribune , 1976)Animals of 2076 ( 1977)21st Century Eugenics ( 1967 )
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