If you didn't care, you wouldn't say you cared would you? You do care, it's obviously important to you otherwise you wouldn't bother with it to the extent that you do.

Racism is very important here whether you realize it yet or not. I can see the evidence of it disturbs you... but you have no idea what to do with the evidence.

I told you earlier in the thread... lets recap for a moment...

history... slavery... the mid-1800's and abolition...

As CTD mentioned, the basic ideas of evolution were not new, Darwin did not invent these ideas. You can read deas that look very similar to Darwin's in Greek Philosophy, Aristotle is a good place to start, he had plenty to say about these types of subjects. Darwin however seems to have picked up the ideas of Aristotle (and others of the past, perhaps including even his grandfather's ideas) and set out to prove them at the right time, in the right place, and with an audience much larger than Aristotle ever imagined.

Darwin connected himself to publishers and financiers to get his works financed and published, to make money, to sell books. The social climate of the time was appropriate and also ready, for any words that would help balance the tide of the abolition movement. In contrast, abolitionists in general were not supported by the wealthy slave owning bourgeoise classes in England or the wealthy plantation owners of America. Frederick Douglass for example, was not wealthy, but he got his book published in 1845, 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave' and it became a bestseller, much to the disdain of slave owners everywhere. Darwin was already working on his ideas by then but only began publishing his work in 1859, after making the connections he needed to do so, Thomas Huxley being in the forefront of that effort.

It is clear, through the words and comments of Thomas Huxley and others close to Darwin...
Huxley, Tyndall, Darwin, and Spencer... the 4 names are mentioned together often, they were very chummy... that racism and anti-catholic/christian views offered a great incentive for them to promote Darwin's work. Not only did they promote his work, as well as their own along with it, but they used it to prop up their racist and anti-christian views. And the ever growing wave of abolition provided for them a hungry audience of wealthy and influential slave owning or slave labor fed entrepreneurs who lauded their timely views, as the great scientists and academics of their time, as a means to conveniently prop up their own agendas.

There is no doubt about it.

Darwin himself may have never professed to actually believe that blacks were a sub-race of whites but his writings speak for themselves, wherein he does compare the intellect of the savage negoes to the intellect of his dog, just as one example. In light of the fact that Frederick Douglass's book had been a bestseller in America for many years already, in light of the fact that other prominent black people proved without a doubt that these types of ideas were ignorant and erroneous, there is no excuse for Darwin except complicity with the racist views of his peers.

I will get ya'll more evidence.