Racism Is Natural: Do We Have To Follow Nature?

Racism Is Natural.

This statement has the power to shock. To disturb. To provoke immediate rejection or immediate agreement.

But what if neither reaction is sufficient?

In this deeply reflective and unsettling philosophical inquiry, Jean M. Merilus does not attempt to justify racism. Nor does he dismiss the question with easy answers. Instead, he examines something more fundamental: the relationship between human instinct and human responsibility.

Human beings inherit impulses they did not choose. We inherit tendencies shaped by evolution, by history, and by the environments in which we develop. These tendencies can influence perception before reflection has time to intervene.

But does inheritance impose obligation?

Are we required to follow what feels natural? Or does the very existence of awareness introduce another possibility, the possibility of choice?

Drawing from philosophy, psychology, evolutionary theory, and human history, this book explores the tension between instinct and conscience, between impulse and responsibility, between what we inherit and what we decide to become.

This is not a book of accusations.

It is not a book of excuses.

It is a book of examination.

Its purpose is not to tell you what to think.

Its purpose is to invite you to confront a question that reaches beyond racism itself:

If something within us is natural, does that make it inevitable?

Or does being human mean that we are more than what we inherit?

The answer is yours to discover.