Anybody who's been paying attention knows that biological evolution moves at a much slower pace than social evolution. The genetics that we've come to, and hold now, come from a time when we were hunter gatherers living in primitive conditions. And if there's anything I've learned about science it's that everything about our biology and behaviour is there because it had survival value at one time. So let's talk about the scientific basis that leads to our modern concept of racism.
Hundreds of millions of years ago some animal that is a distant relative of ours doesn't notice that another animal is different from it. It gets eaten. It's sibling on the other hand, notices that the other animal is different, and runs away. Repeat this process over the course of hundreds of millions of years, and most, if not all, animals, have inherent mechanisms to notice and avoid things that are different from them, because those things signal danger.
Fast-forward to today and you have droves of people with an instinctual mechanism to notice and fear things that are different from them. Racism, then, stems from genetics, and can only really be unlearned.
So is it surmountable? The genetic aspect is not unless racial harmony becomes an evolutionary driver. Outside of that all you can really do is try to convince people to not be scared ass holes, but racism is the default, and we should expect it more often than not, until people believe that races other than their own are not different to themselves.
Hundreds of millions of years ago some animal that is a distant relative of ours doesn't notice that another animal is different from it. It gets eaten. It's sibling on the other hand, notices that the other animal is different, and runs away. Repeat this process over the course of hundreds of millions of years, and most, if not all, animals, have inherent mechanisms to notice and avoid things that are different from them, because those things signal danger.
Fast-forward to today and you have droves of people with an instinctual mechanism to notice and fear things that are different from them. Racism, then, stems from genetics, and can only really be unlearned.
So is it surmountable? The genetic aspect is not unless racial harmony becomes an evolutionary driver. Outside of that all you can really do is try to convince people to not be scared ass holes, but racism is the default, and we should expect it more often than not, until people believe that races other than their own are not different to themselves.