The Man Who Gave Birth To Modern Racism
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Racism and colourism is a very big problem around the world right now, and no matter if we admit it or not but we all are a part of the racist community to some extent because we have been fed racism since we are born. But we are not discussing that today instead we will be discussing how racism was born? Why do we have different skin colours? And who actually gave birth to racism? Who Actually Gave Birth To Modern Rac ism? In the early 1800s, one of America’s most prominent scientist Samuel Morton concluded from his collection of skulls that people can be divided into 5 races. Caucasian , Mongolian , Malay , American, Ethiopian And according to him, these races have distinct characteristics. He claimed that White was the most intelligent and top of the ranks, East Asian and Mongolian were also smart but one step below the White, South-East Asian being the third followed by Native American and finally, Blacks were at the very bottom. As...