New Evidence: The Origins of Racism.

Excerpt from a news article I cut out this past summer. This is fascinating to me, as it tends to agree with the evidence presented by Cedric Robinson in Black Marxism that racism was originally an 'intra-European' phenomenon. Europe was colonized from within, before it colonized the world. BTW, Brian, I'm still working on that Powerpoint. :)

And then, I look at the similarities and they are just too eerie to be coincidental....the fact that Anglo-Saxon person were '2-3 times more valuable' echoes in the"American Constitution's political definition of Africans as '3/5' of a (white) human being.

Science Notebook of the Washington Post
A 5th Century Apartheid May Explain Britons' Genes.
Long before Adolph Hitler dreamed of doing it, Germans colonized Britian and probably instituted a South Africa style apartheid regime there, scientists have concluded. Archaeologists and historians have long believed that no more than 200,000 Anglo-Saxons from Germany invaded Britian during a 300 year period starting in the 5th century. But given that there were 2 million native Britons at the time, biologists have puzzled over how-- in less than 15 generations-- 50 percent of the English gene pool has acquired Anglo-Saxon Y Chromosomes. Now researchers at University College London and other institutions have concluded that the only way to square those facts is by visualizing an apartheid regime, in which the invaders restricted intermarriage and instituted a brutal system of exploitation such that Anglo-Saxon offspring were far more likely to survive into adulthood than the children of local Britons, who were then called Welshmen. Legal texts from the time support the idea: Anglo-Saxon lives were valued two to five times as much as the lives of Welshmen. Researcher Mark G. Thomas and colleagues published a computer-modeling analysis last month in a journal of the Royal Society that showed how native Britons could have been 'culturally and genetically Germanized' in relatively short order. "This is exactly what we see today-- a population of largely Germanic genetic origin, speaking a principally Germanic language," Thomas said in a statement.