Why are people racist and colorist? What's your opinion.?

[GG]

Racism is just one form of discrimination. It's a variant of the roots of the word stranger. Stranger generally meant enemy, from fear of the strange or different. We have a fear or reluctance to embrace anything that is different, out of the ordinary or strange and what can be more different than people who don't look like 'your' people?

Differences are a lot of things but skin color can be the biggest because it's visual and the difference between dark skin and light skin can be major. We discriminate for other things too like accents, dress, eating habits, religion, sports preference, lifestyle, sexual preference, politics, the list goes on and on. We discriminate against people who are different for many reasons, skin color and racism is just one.