The only way to end racism

We're hard-wired for racism.

By "we," I mean all of us; black, white, brown, Asian, whatever.

And it's not just us. It's everywhere up and down the evolutionary chain. We are hard-wired to reject those who are "different." 

Because, if there's a threat to the tribe, the flock, the herd... it's gonna come from the ones that are not like the rest.

That's why, when you introduce an outsider chicken to an established flock, they will peck it to death.

Luckily, humans are, at least potentially, smarter than chickens.

I've noticed in my own extended clan, over the last fifty years or so, some evidence that we are indeed smarter than chickens.

We washed up on these shores from eastern Europe, beginning after the WWI. The pioneers mostly settled in New York and New Jersey. By today's standards, all of them were white.

There followed a second wave after the WWII, oddly enough. Most of the second wave ended up in Canada, largely because they were war-sick, and figured their kids would be less likely to be cannon fodder if they grew up in Ontario, rather than in New York or New Jersey. 

Good call!

All of them were white too.

Fast forward to a family get-together sixty years later. Along the way, various family members dilly-dallied with folks quite outside our tribe. I think cousin Thomas was the pioneer in that aspect, having hooked up with a black woman way back in the... seventies?

By now, the family picnic pretty much looks like a mini UN, and the amazing thing is, we're all family!

That's how we're gonna beat racism. You can have all the government blue panels and white papers you want, but at the end of the day, the only way to beat racism is to enlarge the tribe. White gals gotta drop more brown babies. Brown gals gotta drop more white babies, and so on and so forth.

Holy shit, I see a Nobel Peace Prize in these pearls of wisdom...