The Genesis of White Supremacy

And the legacy that lingers.

Ole Miss — University of Mississippi.

Racism seems like a naturally-occurring phenomenon; a reaction adopted by peoples instinctively wary of the alien ‘other.’ Just as primates may reject or even attack an unknown or unusual animal counterpart, the hair on the back of the human’s neck and arms stands up in fight or flight mode at encountering someone they deem peculiar in appearance, or somehow different.