“Racial prejudice is as old as mankind”
What evidence is there of that?
Science is great. Scientists, not so much.
Traditionally, people have used skin color as short-hand for culture, and culture as short-hand for character.
The most important thing people learn is to see individual people as individual people.
Most people have learned that, so it is strange to see racism resurrected in our day as a means of driving a wedge between masses of people and Christianity, and against the very notions of individual liberty. It is a way of getting people to refuse to see themselves as individual moral agents, and in so doing make them more easily manageable by the people who seek to rule them.
I have great doubts about the ‘focus’ on Germany and the Kaiser Wilhelm Society & Institute as well as the almost obligatory swipe at the United States. France had (has?) its own ‘race’ / anti-Semitic problems (The Dreyfus Affair) and so has much of Europe over the ages! When ‘Blacks’ were rare birds, you get Othello, larger populations ...?
Elsewhere in the wide world? The caste system in Hindu India, the Tutsi-Hutu conflict that predated European colonization. The Japanese and their minority Ainu. It is NOT A PRETTY PICTURE but it is western civilization and its striving for ‘Liberty, Equality and Fraternity’ that encapsulates the best intentions!
Western Civilization and its ‘Blind Justice’ hand maiden is the antithesis of mobs, riot and ruin!
In addition, J. Craig Venter's statement has been shown to be false:
‘You can’t tell from looking at the human genome who is who other than who is male or female’, J. Craig Venter
You can actually tell quite a bit about the ancestry of the person involved. Statistically, different ancestry groups have significant differences in their genomes. Those differences lead to different traits that can be measured.
All of this is covered very well in "Human Diversity" The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class, by Charles Murray.
Murray doesn't make any claim about one race or group being superior to any other.
But there are clear, measurable differences in the genome which are expressed as clear measurable differences in statistical abilities of the groups.
Murray does show the enormous body of evidence from scientists working to uncover the secrets of the human genome.
He shows, quite clearly, the basic premise of Critical Race Theory (In a properly run society, people of all human groupings will have similar life outcomes) is false.
It is obviously false, because people of different groupings all have statistically significant differences in genetics, resulting in statistically significant differences in abilities.
Most people alive have known this is true from common observation, for millennia, for all of human existence. It is only the modern conceit of leftists that claim there is no significant genetic differences between groups of people. They are wrong.
The differences are not huge. They do not have to be huge. They only have to be enough to matter in preferences and abilities at statistical levels of importance.