What can be done about racism?

In view of the fact that we have made little progress in ridding the nation of racism, as seen in the recently concluded Martin-Zimmerman trail, here are a few thoughts.

In the study of sociobiology, racism may also be seen as group-selection, and it is deeply embedded in actual human nature, mainly because it was a successful survival strategy during the difficult epoch when human nature was formed. Human nature has not changed much since those times. Black and white racism still exists even when we are told incessantly that we are not to discriminate according to race.

So what is to be done? E.O. Wilson wondered if the human species will change its own nature or remain in what he called “ the jerrybuilt foundation of partly obsolete Ice Age adaptations.” Perhaps there is something already present in our nature that will prevent us from making such changes? Techniques are increasingly becoming available for altering gene complexes. But modern liberals who emote the most against racism are also the most against any kind of eugenics to change human nature.

Another politically incorrect thinker, Wilmot Robertson, suggested that we might transform socially destructive racism into a socially constructive force. Race, now actively tearing countries apart, might actually be helpful in putting them back together again, but this time in the form of relatively self-sufficient collectives, which the author designates as ethnostates. To demand equality, even at the point of a gun, as in the Soviet Union, has not worked.

We could decide to genetically and culturally move on to higher intelligence and creativity, but we would do so within far more practical natural configurations of small states, regions or ethnostates. The light federalism in the Constitution of the United States could even accommodate such a political perspective. This may eventually happen anyway, voluntarily or involuntary, given human nature.