Racism Since The Beginning Of Man

“When the missionaries got to the part bout Adam and Eve being naked, the Olinka peoples nearly bust out laughing. Especially when the missionaries tried to make them put on clothes because of this. They tried to explain to the missionaries that it was they who put Adam and Eve out of the village because they was naked. Their word for naked is white. But since they are covered by color they are not naked. They said anybody looking at a white person can tell they naked but black people can not be naked because they can be white.” (The Color Purple, Page 240)
This is the 83rd chapter in the book. In this part of the chapter Nettie is explaining in her letter the Olinka version of Adam and Eve. Usually people think that white people are the ones being racist when it is also people of color being racist too. They claim that Adam was the firs white man not the first man. They believed that black people were there before white people. The missionaries explain that Adam was naked and the Olinka burst out laughing saying that Adam was white and being white made you naked while being colored did not make you naked. The Olinka say that the black people kicked Adam out of the Garden of Eden because he was white. Because of this the white people think of black people as snakes and want to get back at them. It is true that whites were racist against blacks back in that time but black people in Africa thought very highly of themselves saying that they were the first people and they were better then white people which made the white people racist towards them. Do you think it is still like that today? Do races think they are better then other races?