Racism is defined by merriam-webster.com as “1. The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and abilities and that Racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. 2. Racial prejudice or discrimination. Racism exists among all races and ethnicities, but especially between whites and blacks. The most fundamental cause of racism begins with the idea that there is something different between different ethnicities. Although this thought is illogical, it seems inevitable. The degree of hatred that one can feel towards another because of the difference in the pigmentation of one's skin is strange. There are countless sources on racism that can be found simply by consulting the Internet. In The Bluest Eye, a novel written by Toni Morrison, there is a series of racist comments and "ways of thinking" on its own, but beyond that, racism can be found in poems, films, and literature. daily life. Racism exists in many forms. and is inevitable. One of the main causes of biased racist discourse is that it has remained that way for so long. Caucasians make up a disproportionate percentage of wealthy and powerful businessmen and political leaders in the United States, and their influence contributes to the racial stereotypes that exist today. When President Barack Obama first ran for president in 2008, it's safe to say the world was shocked, to say the least. President Obama's race is a mix of Hawaiian and African-American. In 2009, Michal Payne wrote an article in The Daily Item about the election of President Obama and Tim Wise's novel, Between Barack and A Hard Place. In Payne's article, Payne disadvantages Wise's two forms of racism; "Racism 1.0 is 'old-fashioned racism' and racism 2.0 is 'enlightened exception...... middle of paper ...... m, or escaping racism.' Many want racism to stop, but are asking the wrong questions to get there. The question is not who is still racist or who is discriminated against the most or even how to end racism, but rather what is the cause of racism. Is it because our ancestors all agreed that those with darker skin were inferior and society as a whole decided to continue with this ignorance or is it because society needs a "pick-me-up" from time to time and has chosen to fulfill this need by putting others down or perhaps because for them, the racists, the idea of ​​having to admit that the way they treat others is different from racists is wrong and immoral, is too difficult to handle. Whatever the reason, before anything can be done to end racism in its entirety, the basis, the root, the simple but convoluted cause of the very idea of ​​racism must be found...