The Racial Hierarchy: Anti-Blackness Culture and Anti-Black Racism. The Causes and Consequences- An Evolutionary Perspective

Humans lived for millions of years on the plains of Africa as tribes engaged in competition and conflict with each other. This ancestral past explains why we practice the inter-tribal competition and conflict known today as racism. Our brains perceive race through the tribal psychological lens we evolved to outcompete each other for group dominance throughout our evolutionary history. You will not perceive racism or understand the racial hierarchy that exists globally the same way once you know it from an evolutionary perspective.Chris Grandison is an educator with an MSc in Evolutionary Psychology. He works as an educational consultant in London, UK. Read more