The origins of racism likely date back to the earliest of human civilizations, and perhaps in the earliest human civilization it wasn’t even called racism. One source hints at the fact that racism is a fairly new concept, and if racism did exist in the past it wasn’t called racism (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism). In the book it is mentioned that race is a social construct meant to basically oppress minorities (). I am not sure if I can really believe that race is a social construct. Every race is different in certain ways, it affects our physical appearance and skin color. It makes sense that different races would be given descriptive names according to where most of them originated. If race truly is a social construct does
