I enjoyed the article and found some of the posted comments enlightening such as this one:

charles-latimes at 10:09 AM May 17, 2010

"I believe the modern form of racism was institutionalized during the Age of Exploration. Rediscovering their Roman and Greek heritage and learning from trading with the Middle East and Chinese through the Silk Road, the Europeans were well equipped to innovate and go out into the world.

Where ever the Europeans went, they met societies inferior in technology, science, social organization, and/or immunity to diseases. They did have resources like manpower, natural resources, gold, farm land, etc. So they took and they excused their taking by developing a theory of racism.

This thinking shaped American racism as we were formed and as we moved across the continent and beyond. The 'others' - Native Indians, Blacks, Latin Americans, and Asians - were all available for the taking. But since they were 'others' they could never be 'one of us'. No nostalgia for the pre-Civil Rights era, if you are one of the 'others'."

Then there's this one:


liberalmoron at 1:13 PM May 18, 2010

another liberal yawn story and on-line love fest.. get a spray can and paint yourself black so you feel great about yourself..