Racism has not only oppressed and repressed the "blacks." Worse. Racism has also suppressed and repressed the "whites." A lie's lethality is as colorblind as any poison's viral potency. Reading Thomas Paine, William Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Constantine Volney or Plato, one readily perceives that truth finds its votaries among all people of the earth and that pollution to one is pollution to all people as well.