RACISM is the world’s most poisonous social disease and should be understood by everybody. Unfortunately, most schools of the world do not teach the nature of this cancerous disease. Here are four facts about racism that everybody should learn as early in life as possible.

1. Racism is universal but more virulent in some countries such as the United States, South Africa, and India than in others such as Japan or Fiji.

2. Harvard psychologist Gordon Allport analyzed racism as a developmental disorder that follow other poisonous developmental disorders such as the Oedipus complex, sibling rivalry, and tribalism. All of these disorders are consequences of poor parenting. For example, if the father is always loving toward the mother, never angry, the Oedipus complex does not arise or is overcome about 42 days after the child’s birth. Typically, developmental disorders cannot be cured, but they can be prevented.

3. Racism is costly. One estimate of the cost of racism in the U.S. is $1.9 trillion. This amounts to a loss of income of $5,800 for every man, woman, child and baby in America. A recent study of racism in Australia by Dr. Amanuel Ellis found that racism costs that nation $39 billion every year. One dramatic example of the spiritual karma of racism is offered by the eleven former Confederate states of the U.S. Their population is 108 million, of the U.S. total of 325 million, nearly 1/3. The U.S. as a whole has won 283 Nobel Prizes in the three sciences. By purely statistical logic the eleven former Confederate states should have won 93 Nobel Prizes in the three sciences. Those eleven states have won zero Nobel prizes in the sciences. The costs of racism are not only economic, the costs are also psychological and spiritual. According to most religions, people who hate are not allowed into heaven.

4. There have been many attempts to remedy racism.  Here are summaries of the best-known published proposed researched-based remedies:

1. Jesus Christ: “And now I give you a new commandment: love one another.” John 13:34.  Harvard Law School professors, Glueck and Glueck, studied 85 juvenile delinquents.  All essentially were raised without adequate love, in fact, in violent homes.
2. Philosophy Professor Alfred Binet, 1905 (The inventor of the IQ test). “If the child’s genius is not flowering, change the “soil.”  (Environment).
3. Harvard Psychologist Gordon Allport, 1954: We all are born with eight potential prejudices, the first being an antipathy to the mother’s husband which in healthy homes disappears on the 42^nd day when the baby falls in love with the father.  So do all prejudices fall in healthy homes and societies in a predictable sequence and timing.
4. Milton Friedman’s capitalistic remedy, 1962: “Give every child the same high-quality education available to the richest child “in return for a fraction of the child’s future earnings.”
5. Robert Rosenthal’s and William Maxwell’s Remedy in the form of a 21st-century academy where the education begins before birth with parental guidance and formally at age 3 ½, and is completed to the doctoral level by age 18 when the child is fully prepared for a career and for establishing a family.
6. Kisou Kubota’s “Home Remedy.” All babies are curious.  That curiosity begins to focus at about eight months.  From that moment the parents should find ways for the child to “visually” or vicariously experience every kind of trade and profession.  The child will reveal his or her “True Calling” by his or her “Interest inclinations.”  That is, the child will begin to exhibit to the parents what Erik Erikson at Harvard called “favored capacities.”  The child then has a ”human right” to become intelligent in that choice, according to Professor Luis Alberto Machado of Venezuela.

Up until now, no remedy has been sustained. The oldest known remedy was implemented by Confucius which, among other measures, included ensuring that every male-owned land. Confucius’ remedy, according to the historian Will Durant, resulted in reducing crime in the Province of Lu (present-day Shandong, population 100,000,000) to zero. Thomas Jefferson tried to implement Confucius remedy in Virginia but his idea was rejected by the House of Burgesses. The remedy for racism and most other social diseases offered by Jesus Christ in John 13:34 has never been tried except in one special city, Berea, Kentucky, 1855. Another notable attempt was King Se-Jong in Korea who appointed a member of Korea’s lowest caste, a sang-nom, to his cabinet. King Sejong’s attitude preceded the birth of the democratic spirit in the West by three centuries.  Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman’s Remedy caught the politicians, economists, and bankers of his day by surprise, and none responded.  Just before he died, in 2006, Professor Friedman told this writer that he knew of no attempts to implement his remedy.

Professor Friedman’s remedy or formula is summarized below: