No, I don't believe racism to be the white man's HIV.
Their's nothing wrong with racism, if you take it for what it is.
I'm a racist.
Blacks can on average run a little faster and jump a little higher than white people.
Environment adds attributes which work for those particular environments, but not necessarily for others.
The blacks that were used primarily in the slave trade- they were not the same complexion or same race as the people who built the pyramids.
They were blacks primarily from middle Africa, a race of nomads and gatherers.
They had no desire to take over the world, for all that they needed was already before them.
Shelter was not as crucial to survival as much as patience to wait for the next rain.
For eons, millions of years perhaps, the savannas and the jungles were their home.
They had no reason think that life was any different elsewhere, as they had crossed many expanses before just as the elephants and buffalo had looking for drinking water and food.
Often they were eaten by lions and hyenas, or died from microbes in the drinking pools.
But, as life was difficult, and tribes moved on- some made it to the oceans, and others followed the rivers to the seas, where the environment was quite different from their homeland.
And so, attributes that worked well in the savannas such as lying in the mud, waiting for the next rain, no longer were needed in these new lands.
Now, with the abundance of fresh water, farming and agriculture became the staple way of life.
And for thousands of generations, attributes which complimented that way of living were ingrained into the genetics.
They were similar in some physical aspects to their savanna cousins, but now bred with a mind toward industry and production.
Ingenuity began to take hold and this attribute lead to a smarter, and more powerful people than those of middle Africa.
Better weapons, stronger shelter, more sophisticated clothing, mechanized transportation and an ever growing vocabulary to match their ever growing technologies.
Perhaps they had already implemented the idea of slavery, or indentured service from their southern cousins of the savannas and jungles.
These were great monument builders.
But the nomadic way of life was still deeply ingrained within this new people, and they had acquired the confidence to explore the vast oceans and mountain passes.
Once through the great mountainous divide, the environment took on something entirely different from both the savannas and the deltas and the seas.
In this bitterly cold environment, the importance of ingenuity had reached a pinnacle.
For these people to survive the harsh climate, they would need to take advantage of every possible aspect.
To survive in such a terrain, they would have to work extremely hard in the warmer summer months, in preparation of the great freeze that was to overtake them in the long winters.
They were not deterred, however, as they had brought with them many technologies given to them from their previous homelands.
They wielded powerful weapons.
They had been given the mastery of fire and industry.
But soon they would master more than just the elements, land, oceans, and animals.
They would master the race of cousins from the homeland whence they came.
But with all this intelligence; and all of their superior technologies- there was still a great void.
And this void was so great it couldn't be seen, so they just ignored it and lived within it, completely unaware of its presence at all.
This void is known today as Ignorance.
Ignorance is the disease which has caused many a great civilization to fall.
And Ignorance was a precursor to Arrogance.
Arrogance was to ignore what had been given.
Arrogance was to ignore what can be taken.
Arrogance was to claim for them selves all that had been shared by their ancestors, the earth, Universe and God.
Now, after all those eons of divide, and being forced against their will to give up their mastery of their savanna cousins- they still ignore the gifts in which they were given.
They ignore the attributes of their emancipated cousins, refusing to acknowledge that eons of time and environmental changes have caused a physical and mental divide from their distant relatives.
They ignore that it was they who gave birth to the African American, and brought such a delicate creature into the world as a means to ascertain a crutch for them selves.
They ignore the fact that after giving birth to the baby which they abused and treated as an animal, they soon abandoned it to fend for itself in the industrial wilderness that america still is.
Arrogance to complain about the orphan bastard that now plagues their streets, still trying to find a home in the American wasteland.
Ignorance and Arrogance, both precursors to Shame and Disgrace.
And God forgives us all.