Arthur Parker

Arthur C. Parker was born to an interracial couple. Today this is something that is seen more and more, but in the 1900s, interracial couples were not seen as a positive thing. These couples were disregarded because they were contributing to the notion of impure offspring. Whites were one blood and Native Americans were another, the mixture of the two was believed to happen only among defective people. The people in that time thought there surely must have been something wrong for two people of different races to have children. If the parents were defective so were the children, however Parker was one example that contradicted this mindset. His father was a Native American chief and his mother was white. Instead of blaming defective people on their parents, Parker stated that the personality of a person was the result of other …show more content…
To defend the mixing of bloods, he stated, “All so-called races are the results of mixtures.” [121] With that statement he argued that no race had ever been pure and that they have all developed as a result of mixing with others, this would help some people understand that the mixing of races was not doing anything harmful and that it was just a part of evolution. Lastly, Parker argues that those who remain with the belief that the mixing of races is a step backward for civilization are “self-admiring egotists”. These people who believe the white race to be superior were very wrong and today’s present life shows it. In the 1900s ideas that are widely accepted today were not accepted then. Interracial marriages were made illegal so that the mixing of races would not happen. Today these couples are common and often used as representation of the diversity in this country. In the 1900s, however this idea was not held by many and Arthur C. Parker