At the root of (racism) is the unchallenged belief that there are physical differences between people that account for the intellectual attributes and abilities of those people. Since before Aristotle's time, people have been using the idea of racial difference to justify the subjugation and enslavement of those different and less powerful than themselves. Such brutality and oppression in the name of racial superiority has occurred so many times, over so many years, that we, as a nation, can no longer recognize and acknowledge the simple beauty in the diversity of the human family.
-- Joy DeGruy, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, p. 12-13
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