Sig
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Racism in the USA will probably never go away. Agree/Disagree
Unfortunately, racism (or should I say territorialism) was tattooed upon the human soul long before the advent of conventional moral precepts and modern social ideologies. 500,000 years ago (and so much more), when technology was very crude and natural resources seemingly scarce and thus violently and vehemently pursued and defended, there was enormous survival value in making very rapid cognitive distinctions between those who are of your clan and those who are not. Those who in anyway appeared different than one's own kind were to be feared and defended against possible encroachment. This was the genesis of what we now deem "racism" and it remains with us to this very day, and will continue to haunt us for as long as we are human in any contemporary understanding of what it means to be human.