My dark Italian Moka is the colour of her ebony velvet skin. Actually having my caffeine dose for the morning and couldn't resist. :)
"Racism can be viewed as a bi-product of Darwinian thought. You know, the survival of the fittest. It predates Darwinian. It could be as old as when the first distinction about race came about. Whoever won the war, their side was superior."
Somewhere, some time, I'm a free range word browser, I read that when humanity was evolving there were a number of different types living at the same time sometimes in the same area. In addition to competition for food, ie land, there was pressure to collect as many wombs as possible to increase the number of your tribe and genotype. Captive men were killed, sometimes like the Iroquois who publicly tortured them to death as entertainment. Captive women were bred. This POV exists today in the upper levels of islam, where it has been a common saying for decades that islam will conquer Europe via the wombs of white women. Hence a current islamist can say, as was said recently, that his rape of a European woman was his prayer to allah. This was not just about skin colour. Note that the Chinese and Japanese derogatory racial terms, equivalent to nigger, are Round Eye and Long Nose. Also note the word for 'enemy' is often the same word as 'stranger'. An example is the word Apache, which is Pueblo for enemy-stranger as they were roaming raiders preying on the sedentary, agricultural Pueblos.
So negativity toward those who are different from 'our people' is inherent in humans. Without that attitude, your women are raped and bred and 'your' people vanish. The idea that we are all humans and all of value is, afaik, a development of the Christian belief that we are all the children of God and very recent. As a former soldier, I know the primary values in another soldier, regardless of race or gender, is can that person do their job and do they have the guts to stand firm under threat. This is both somewhat recent and somewhat limited to a particular profession. The question that used to be of primary importance out on the savannahs, is that person of my blood, is assume as we are both Americans. Ofc, that idea has been under attack for the last few decades in the political drive to fragment us into small mutually hostile clusters that are easy to control, but that is a whole different topic.
Well, I'm running low on Moka so I'll wrap up my meandering. The human sensitivity to difference is really old and really basic. The idea of inclusiveness is really new, less than a hundred years new. I'm on this forum because my writing is usually centered on issues of domination and female subjugation in a fantasy world. In the last few decades vulgarity in English has been radically detoxified, so in order to convey the horror of assault on a female, were I homosexual it would be on a male, I use the few vocabulary tools left. Therefore, Mz Scarlett is going to be gangraped by silly numbers of 'Niggers' with biologically unlikely huge penises ejaculating impossible amounts of semen into an anus of medically impossible flexibility. This is mucking about in some nasty mental corners and has nothing to do with my Black friends, Female friends or Black & Female friends. Actually, I'm starting to view it as healthy emotional self therapy. Well, I'm now out of Moka and three flights of A-10s have blasted overhead enroute to the training ranges to the North, so I'll log out. Ya'll be safe.
