"The Negro: A Menace to American Civilization:" This Book Shaped the Negative Views Held by Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, Stephen Miller, and Diehard MAGA Cult Members Toward Black America

By: Donald V. Watkins

Copyrighted on August 30, 2026

An Editorial Opinion

"The Negro: A Menace to American Civilization" is a 1907 book written by Dr. Robert Bill Wilson Shufeldt (R.W. Shufeldt, M.D.), an American osteologist, military physician, and avid proponent of white supremacy. The book is a documented example of scientific racism.

Shufeldt's book supported the extreme racial prejudices, systemic discrimination, and eugenicist theories that influenced federal, state, and local government policy in all matters dealing with Negroes in the United States during the post-Reconstruction era.

Today, the negative views held by Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, Stephen Miller, and diehard MAGA cult members toward Black Americans are traced directly back to this racist book. For example, Trump, who paid "hush money" to White porn star Stormy Daniels, does not want to stand next to decorated Black female officers at military events

As for me, I suffer from an incurable case of what Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright diagnosed as "Drapetomania." This so-called "mental illness" caused slaves to runaway from their slave masters and plantations.

Furthermore, I am a Christian who avoids the slavery-era form of "Christianity" that Rev. Dr. Charles Colcock Jones taught to southern slave owners and slaves of African descent. Colcocks' "Christianity" taught slaves how to be subservient and submissive to their masters.

For the record, I am NOT seeking professional treatment for either one of these slavery-era conditions. MAGA, which showcases "Negroes" like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, and Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds, has labeled me as "uppity,""militant," and "crazy."