For what is racism?

A precise doctrine, which can be summed up in four points.

First, that a correlation exists between genetic heritage on the one hand and intellectual aptitudes and moral dispositions on the other. Second: that this heritage on which the aptitudes and dispositions are held to depend is common to all the members of certain human groups. Third: that these groups called ‘races’ can be hierachized in terms of the quality of their genetic heritage. Fourth: that these differences authorize those ‘races’ held to be sperior to command and exploit others, maybe to destroy them.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

I see some horrifying things on Facebook

This girl said calling someone a nigger isn’t racist…it’s only racist if you call them a dirty nigger.

Umm, yeah…about that. I just don’t know what to do/say.
Sometimes, I’m not even excited at all about bringing children into this world.

Flip.

It’s not even been 100 years since men, women and children who looked like me (black or brown skinned) were displayed in cages in human zoos.

Still processing this. I mean, I knew it. But I’m really thinking about right now. And I’m kinda mad.