Well, I wouldn't wish to waste your time being "silly."
So, I will step aside and let Prof. Darwin speak on the subject of race for himself:
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time, the anthropomorphous apes will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla. It has often been said that man can resist with impunity the greatest diversities of climate and other changes; but this is true only of the civilized races. Man in his wild condition seems to be in this respect almost as susceptible as his nearest allies, the anthropoid apes, which have never yet survived long, when removed from their native country.*
Seems to me that this view would be appropriate for our school children to learn if we want them to to hear all sides, wouldn't you agree?
*The Descent of Man in Relation to Sex, in The Works of Charles Darwin, D. Appleton & Co., New York (1972) pp. 241-242.
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