Racism leads to inter-racial unions

Racism is a social construction. All the evidence we have about the behavior of historically racist societies (South Africa, the Americas----Mexico, Brazil, the United States, Canada, Australia, the Caribbean----shows that racial discrimination is exploitation based on ancestry and appearance. (See The White Slave of Nootka, an account of a white man enslaved by Natives living in what is now British Columbia.) Harvard Professor Orlando Patterson in his monumental study of racism found it to have a vulgar, haphazard form and a systematic institutional form. In South Africa and the post-Civil Rights protests the racism was systemic/institutional, as well as cultural, against black Americans. In Mexico and Brazil, it was haphazardly cultural and the racial barriers to black social advancement were porous. If racism were simply speciation, it ought to have led to separate lives of the 2 species. But in the modern era, racism collapses into a society of racially exogamous relationships (See the works of anthropologist Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran of the creation of the so-called "Mexican" race (La Raza) from the violent destruction of the endogamous tribal consanguinity of African slaves, Indian natives, and Spanish Conquistadors. The process of exogamy has been going on since at least the time of the Pharoahs. (See reflections of endogamy in the world of the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus with his cycle of plays about Greek women and "black" Egyptian princes): The Suppliants in 463 BC (Hiketides): "In the play, the Danaids, the fifty daughters of Danaus, founder of Argos, flee a forced marriage to their cousins in Egypt. They turn to King Pelasgus of Argos for protection, but Pelasgus refuses until the people of Argos weigh in on the decision, a distinctly democratic move on the part of the king. The people decide that the Danaids deserve protection, and they are allowed within the walls of Argos despite Egyptian protests. The 1952 publication of Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 2256 fr. 3 confirmed a long-assumed (because of The Suppliants' cliffhanger ending) Danaid trilogy, whose constituent plays are generally agreed to be The Suppliants, The Aegyptids and The Danaids. A plausible reconstruction of the trilogy's last two-thirds runs thus: In The Aegyptids, the Argive-Egyptian war threatened in the first play has transpired. During the course of the war, King Pelasgus has been killed, and Danaus comes to rule Argos. He negotiates a peace settlement with Aegyptus, as a condition of which, his fifty daughters will marry the fifty sons of Aegyptus. Danaus secretly informs his daughters of an oracle predicting that one of his sons-in-law would kill him; he therefore orders the Danaids to murder the Aegyptids on their wedding night. His daughters agree. The Danaids would open the day after the wedding. In short order, it is revealed that forty-nine of the Danaids killed their husbands as ordered; Hypermnestra, however, loved her husband Lynceus, and thus spared his life and helped him to escape. Angered by his daughter's disobedience, Danaus orders her imprisonment and, possibly, her execution. In the trilogy's climax and dénouement, Lynceus reveals himself to Danaus, and kills him (thus fulfilling the oracle). He and Hypermnestra will establish a ruling dynasty in Argos. The other forty-nine Danaids are absolved of their murderous crime, and married off to unspecified Argive men. The satyr play following this trilogy was titled Amymone, after one of the Danaids." It's no accident that when Obama visited the Great Pyramid he turned around inside the tomb and found a stone image strikingly resembling him (including his pronounced ears). But the image of his face and head was created at least 3-5 millennia ago. The Greeks were the first Westerners to record racist views about non-Greeks. If the Danaids cycle of plays are any indication, particularly the Suppliants and Aegyptids, the "black" Egyptians must have embittered the Greeks for centuries.