I'm a conspiracy nut job.
I think racism is kept alive through the media and politics because there is no money in harmony.
Why create a cure when you can sell a thousand palliatives.
I can imagine that there is an inherited evolutionary reason for racism, but teaching has a lot to play in it.
It's easier to teach fear than it is to teach compassion.
It doesn't matter what race you are there will be some form of discrimination because if we all cooperated and had the philosophy of live and let live, how many jobs in psychiatry, Law and human resources would be lost.
It is easier to prepare people for racial tension than it is to properly educate children.
If it isn't race - then its social class - tax bracket politics religion, and most of it focus on fear.
It's about Money, Power and the fear it generates.