So I'm back, I forgot one thing.

I have to read a book in my grad class about Statistics and how they are erred. It was talking about racism and the origins of it (I don't know how the two relate) and in finishing an assignment I had to do for the class came across this great quote I thought I would share by Wendell Berry (my second favorite contemporary author.....)
This really puts into a new perspective (and I think a clearer one) the nature of man, and the root of racism.



"…..The root of our racial problem in America is not racism. The root is in our inordinate desire to be superior—not to some inferior or subject people, though this desire leads to the subjection of people—but to our condition. We wish to rise above the sweat and the bother of taking care of anything—of ourselves, of each other or of our country. We did not enslave African blacks because they were black, but because their labor promised to free us of the obligations of stewardship, and because they were unable to prevent us from enslaving them. They were economically valuable and militarily weak.
It seems likely then, that what we now call racism came about as a justification of slavery after the fact, not as its cause. We decided that blacks were inferior in order to persuade ourselves that it was all right to enslave them. That this is true is suggested by our present treatment of other social groups to whom we assign the laborious jobs of caretaking…….It is well established among us that you may hold up your head in polite society with a public lie in your mouth or other people’s money in our pockets or innocent blood on your hands, but not with dishwater on your hands, or mud on your boots."


Racism and the Economy
By Wendell Barry,