Racism is defined by merriam-webster.com as '1. The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and abilities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. 2. Racial prejudice or discrimination.' Racism exists among all races and ethnicities, but especially between whites and blacks. The most basic cause of racism begins with the idea that there is something different between different ethnicities. Although this thought is illogical, it seems inevitable. The amount of hatred one can harbor against another because of the difference in skin pigmentation is astonishing. There are countless sources on racism that can be found simply by searching the Internet. Only in The Bluest Eye, a novel written by Toni Morrison, can a number of racist comments and “ways of thinking” be found, but beyond that racism can be found in poems, films and in the lives of all days. Racism exists in many forms. and it is inevitable. One of the main causes of biased racial theses is that it has been this way for so long. Caucasians represent a disproportionate percentage of wealthy and powerful businessmen and political leaders in America, and their influence contributes to the racial stereotypes that exist today. When President Barack Obama first ran for president in 2008, it's safe to say that the world was shocked to say the least. President Obama's race is a mix of Hawaiian and African American. In 2009, Michal Payne wrote an article in The Daily Item about the election of President Obama and Tim Wise's novel, Between Barack and A Hard Place. In the article Payne questions Wises' two forms of racism; 'Racism 1.0 is “old-fashioned racism” and racism 2.0 is “an enlightened exception…… middle of paper……m, or escape from racism. Many want racism to end, but are asking the wrong questions to make it happen. The question is not who is still racist or who is most discriminated against or even how to stop racism, but rather what the cause of racism is. Is it because our ancestors all agreed that those with darker skin were inferior and society as a whole decided to continue with this ignorance or is it because society needs a "pick me up" every now and then so much and chose to satisfy that need that by humiliating others or maybe it's because for them, the racists, the thought of having to admit that the way they treat others of different racists is wrong and immoral, is too much to handle. Whatever the reason, before anything can be done to end racism in its entirety, it is necessary to find the basis, the root, the simple yet twisted cause of the very idea of ​​racism..