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We live in a so-called progressive society where we have tremendous advantages than Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, and Lewis and Clark ever had. Gone are the days of horse and buggies climbing over mountains, caravans trekking along silk roads, and ships embarking on maiden voyages to unknown lands. We have modern technology. It affords us the rare opportunity to reach out and just about tap the shoulders of our neighbors living on the other side of the world. Air and sea travel, global positioning of satellites, the Internet, text messaging, and mobile phones, are just a few methods we use to embrace the rest of humanity despite our social, economic, and cultural differences. Behold the wonders!

We invented serums to cure Polio; and we grew mold in a petri dish to create penicillin. We can send people to the moon, orbit the universe with crafty space probes, and peer through telescopes to observe a star being born, or spy on the volatile activities of our solar system; and we will gather all the Einsteins of the world to devise contingency plans to save humanity from the possibility of asteroid or nuclear extinction. Yet, despite all these triumphs, despite all the power of communication, no one seems to be genius enough to eradicate the rift that exist between people based solely on the color of skin. In this day and age of advancements, the primitive question is, why? What really is the root causes of racism in America?

While great minds toil at drawing boards to calculate global warming or solve the equation for world peace, the rest of mankind are aware of the fact that racism prevails among us like a fungus; and no one really knows where it comes from. We suspect its origins, the stench of it; but none of us are quite sure. Some of us are trying to figure out why racism exist - at least we're thinking as oppose to those who are stubbornly convinced that their kind is of a more superior blood than that of others. Most of us attribute the world's racial problems to fear. But what sort of fear is this? We are all equipped with the God-given internal alarm called "fear" for good reason. It shields and it keeps us safe and secure from impending dangers. We humans inherently respond to this ingrained fear as a source of protection. But many misinterpret such fear. Quite often, it is associated with hate. Both are drastically different emotions; yet, if coupled, they can detonate a horrific human chain of events that could result into a race

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