The ultimate goal of eugenicists is to direct evolution (Barone, 20). The scientists who supported it, and to no surprise to the socially conscious, the movement believed that by “playing God” and interfering with the successful reproductive capacity of various social groups a superhuman race could be produced (Ordover, 26). To advance the sinister agenda of what is often called “scientific racism,” scientists and advocates knew they could not clearly state their motives and expect public support. Even if the public agreed with their agenda, no one would openly perpetuate these ideas due to the potential harm it would have on their moral characters (Hare and Hare, 18). Recognizing this fact, scientists looked to the institution that had enabled the disguised support of immoral and socially disgusting mandates for years before in the form of slavery, the law. ideas of their agenda in the minds of a Congress concerned with the ever-growing minority population not only in the form of African Americans, but also, surprisingly enough, European immigrants (Ordover, 160). The American context was one in which the average mental age of the white man was low, the perceived superior status that had been perpetrated for years was being questioned and the government was hungry for any solution to blame for this growing incompetence ( Ordover, 162). ). Before making their case in 1917, eugenicists conducted a series of IQ tests that, strangely enough, showed African Americans as the weakest link in society. Interestingly, the framework for these tests would later be used to format...... middle of paper....... Eugenics: Mandatory sterilization in 50 US states. University of Vermont. March 4. Accessed April 9, 2014. http://www.uvm.edu/~lkaelber/eugenics/.Laughlin, H.H. “Eugenetics in America.” The Eugenics Review 17, no. 1 (April 1925): 28-35. Accessed 4 April 2014. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2942682/.Lombardo, Paul. 2010. A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Project. Np: Indiana University Press. Ordover, Nancy. 2003. American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press.Wasserman, J, M. A. Flannery, and J. M. Clair. “Razing the Ivory Tower: Knowledge Production and Distrust in Medicine Among African Americans.” Journal of Medical Ethics 33, no. 3 (March 2007): 1. Accessed April 6, 2014. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2598256/.