Our Lives Matter S1E34: Racism and Evolution

Episode 34 July 18, 2024 00:25:53
Our Lives Matter S1E34: Racism and Evolution
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Our Lives Matter S1E34: Racism and Evolution

Jul 18 2024 | 00:25:53

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Show Notes

Our species originated in Africa.  At the time, there was no way for our ancestors to evolve a dislike for people from other continents, because there were no people from other continents.  Racism is xenophobia connected to physical features of people from different continents.  Imperialism and colonialism depended on the colonial governments writing different laws for different groups of people, which gave the colonizers the right to take land and resources from the people they were colonizing.  Slavery was another way that laws gave different groups of people different sets of rights.   Those different sets of laws created different…

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