reminds me of the Watts towers...

"Whn h skd t b r-std ftr brdng, th flght ttndnt gt scrty gy wh shtd t hm nd thrtnd t kck hm ff th pln."

nyn ls thnk tht thr ws prbbly lttl mr t ths stry thn wht ws rprtd?

Thnk y gn BB fr pstng pr rprtng n nythng tht mght sm t vlt r rghts....

Ok-
I LOVE David Bowie.
I LOVE most of the hiphop artists sampled.

That being said, this was PAINFUL to listen to.

/caps ftw, amirite?

"...makes it much harder for bad guys to"

I prefer the term "evildoers" myself.

Cowicide,

It's not really a "genetic hate program" as much as a general tendancy to prefer, trust, and help others that are more similar to you. That's not saying that you are born hating any group, just that you trust your group a bit more.

I am sure you can find a ton of photos of children, or monkeys (apes? chimps? idk), that are different ethnicities playing together nicely. I'm not saying that when you stick a white kid and a latino kid together that they won't play with one another. All i am saying is that if you stick two white kids and a latino kid together, the two white kids will on average spend more time playing with one another than with the latino kid.

I think it kinda explains why racism might be "comfortable" for some people. The good thing though is that social norms can be created which can override any evolutionary tendancy (e.g., why i don't run around raping people even though biologically, i should). So, if we set up the right social conditions (e.g., condemn racism), then it should override any biological tendancy to be racist.

Long rant, im sorry ;)

Unfortunatly Cowicide, thats not entirely true. Not only do kids recognize ingroup-outgroups from an early age (

Another line of research shows that parts of the amygdala actually fire differently when observing outgroup members compared with ingroup members.

Thus, there's converging evidence suggesting that racism is an (unfortunate) human tendancy.

Which is why we have to fight against it. Because its all too natural to abide by it.