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Fear of "the other" is one of the most hard-wired human ideas.
Racism will never go away, or if hatred of "the other" because of colour is something we grow out of as a species, we will replace it with fear of "the other" by some different factor.
The problem with racism (and other -isms) is that they are insidious; example - in my office last week, a young (20ish) white girl from a good school and decent in alomst all respects said it was wrong to call the President Elect a "spade" (once the gardner joke was explained to her) but that she saw nothing wrong with calling him a "nig-nog" because that was "funny, and not meant to upset him, I think he's great".
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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