Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason." ---------Abraham J. Heschel quotes
Racists divide the world into "superior" and "inferior" races, and believe that, by nature and fate, the superior peoples have the right to dominate the inferior. In the mid-1850s Comte Arthur de Gobineau published his "Essay on the Inequality of Human Races." Before Gobineau, racism was mostly a subject for scientists. He turned racism into a cultural and political issue, by saying that the deterioration of the modern age resulted from the mixing of superior and inferior races. He divided humanity into the black, yellow, and white races, and claimed that only the pure white, or Aryan, race was and could be truly noble.
Causes of Discrimination
1.Traditional attitudes persisted from the days of slavery.
2.The Black male was regarded as a threat to the white male.
3.Poorer Whites were made to feel inferior to what remained of the old southern aristocracy.
4.There was also sexual discrimination black males were treated much more harshly than black females.
5.For a black man to approach a white woman meant beatings or death.
The exact origin of Racism cannot be traced as it came from many countries and centuries.Racism was found all over the world in various forms like individual,cultural,ethnic,historical,institutional and scientific.In all forms it was profounded just to gain supremacy over others.