Thanks for taking the time to write that, RL. Those are excellent and revealing insights from Messrs. Richburg and Sowell. I never knew that facial bone structure was a key factor in African racism. That’s as nonsensical as whether you worship God or Allah.
Africa has all four underlying factors at work causing wholesale slaughter — skin tone, bone structure, religion and tribe. Of course, the first three determine which tribe you belong to.
The liberals, leftists and communists have worked hard the past few decades to utterly destroy the tradition of American unity around the founding ideals of freedom and self-governance and make us all warring tribal members. Victor Davis Hanson has been pointing this out for a long time.
You are most welcome. To me, it illustrates that something-anything can and is used to separate humans from each other. If skin is yellow, brown, red, white, or black, so much the easier to do.
If the color is close, then. it could be the shape of the face or common physical characteristics, such as bone structure and hair color.
I did a little search to ensure I wasn’t misusing certain terms, and what I found is, there appear to be people who believe that if there isn’t a meaningful difference, one must be created to serve a political or power expression end.
Here, in America, racism is largely skin deep to a degree, but in Africa, they have to drill further down to to ensure the “right” people are pitted against the “wrong” ones.