When it comes to controversy, I always have an opinion.
Today’s hot topic: racism
One of mankind’s most valuable instincts is the ability to survive. Back in the days of cavemen, the neighbor who helped you on the hunt was your friend. The neighbor who tried to steal your berries was your enemy.
Got that? Jolly good!
Now, the word Us referred to anyone within my group, and the word Them referred to anyone who was not. This is not to suggest that someone with Us could not act a damn fool and be banished. Quite the contrary! Survival in those days depended heavily on growing the population of Us, for security purposes, to a number larger than Them on the other side of the valley.
Now let us fast forward to about 500 A.D.

As you can see, there were quite a number of Us and Thems. Also, note the border less regions. At this time, we weren’t sufficiently civilized to draw a solid line on the map and respect each other’s territory. So anyone caught in the no man’s land in between, might end up with a sword in his belly. Bloody Hell!
Now, let us fast forward once again to about 1500 A.D.

The first thing you will notice is that the number of Us and Thems grew exponentially. By now, these groups were organised as Nations.
Lastly, here is 1700 A.D.

One thing you might note: England early on organized their territory much sooner than the other Euro-trash did. No doubt all that water helped! But, what does any of this have to do with racism? Ah ha! Glad you asked!
You see, within each individual nation there developed a mental, physical, spiritual, and linguistic community. A fabric, if you will. The longer one lived in England, for example, the stranger Denmark would seem. As populations within a single nation mixed, skin tones were neutralized and language was born.
This is why you can go to that abominable Ireland today and not be able to tell one bloody Irishman from the next! God Save the Queen!
Racism (or any other ism you can think of) was a natural way for one group of people to protect itself from another. Plain and simple. Should a bloody Irishman in 1500 A.D., sitting in a pub, look up to see an olive-skinned Italian walking in, he would use his natural racist survival instincts to warn the others that the Romans have come to steal their berries!
So there you are! Racism in its simplest form is nothing more than survival instincts! Nothing more whatsoever. One would have to be quite stupid not to be racist in those days, eh wat?!
Yet, how does this apply to today’s modern society, you might ask. Jolly good question!
In the early 20th century, the United States became the first nation to create a national fabric based on immigration, or the mingling of races. By all standards, this was risky business. An anomaly, if you will.

No nation had ever had any good come from mingling with another. Yet, the American secret in this diabolical plan was the act of assimilation.
You see, when one would assimilate into the fabric of society — speak the language, live and work next to each other — as in the American experiment, one’s natural instincts toward the isms were expected to be stymied with time.
But, as I have stated above, the act of assimilation is crucial.
This trend of assimilation has done wonders for the modern world! In fact, England and the rest of Europe have taken on this experiment upon the success of the Americans. It is the fastest way to grow one’s population for security purposes against those nations on the other side of the valley, if you will.
Yet today, friction between different-looking people still exists. Now why might that be?
Quite simply, because the instinct of thousands of years is quite difficult to overcome simply for the appeasement of the politically correct. Full assimilation is crucial to a harmonious society bent on mingling people of different races, yet today, we are faced with people trying to change who we are in order to appease them. In other words, foreign elements are immigrating into established societies and refusing to assimilate! In fact, they are demanding their host nation adhere to their traditions! Quite rude!
Any time mingling groups choose to live closely, yet refuse to assimilate (such as the French-Muslim clash a few years ago) one has a recipe for disaster.

And therein lies the modern form of racism. Quite simply, it is a newer strain of the old instinct for survival. This new strain of racism does not bother with colour or religion at all, though it may seem that way at first. It evolves from attitude. Attitudism is best defined as a conscious decision to go against the harmony of a civilized nation, or the refusal to co-exist peacefully with a majority. (Note in the above picture that the white chap with dreads and the Islamic skin-headed chap appear to be on the same team.)
Attitudism might best explain why a white man can mow his lawn next to a black man or a Muslim across the street doing the same, yet drive across the railroad tracks and snear at the common white trash living in trailer parks. This is not to be confused with so-called class differences, either. The dweller of this small cottage would not merit a snear…

So the next time someone calls you a racist for snearing at a black man in a hoody walking a Pit Bull and selling crack, tell them they are wrong.
Racism may in fact have been replaced by the modern Attitudism, but Isms in general will never die so long as mankind retains his instinct for survival. Regardless of what the women on The View might think.
Once again, this is J. Walten Dare declaring: PROBLEM SOLVED!
Cheerio!