Does Chess Promotes Racism

Excuse me Sir,You are Con or Pro for this Debate?That's ludicrous. Usually it's the whitest people who complain that everything is racist, and "white" isn't necessarily a reference to melanin or genetics either. I'm whiter than a redneck, who are usually racially around 100% white but whenever they do something stupid people go, "rednecks are stupid" instead of, "that person is stupid". Rick Sanchez is Latino racially, yet he's super-white. Just because someone is white doesn't make them white, if you understand. "Chess is racist" one of the most overused and annoying jokes you'll ever hear as a chess player :|. and Yes No, it has nothing to do with race.The basic color scheme of chess was established long before the modern era, much less the various racial issues that exist in United States or the rest of the world.Chess has it's beginnings in Persia sometime in the year 600 with a game called chatrang. Over the centuries the rules and pieces evolved into the game we now call Chess.Also note that there are MANY styles of game pieces varying from Chess set to Chess set. This differences includes how they look and what color they are. For centuries, chess has been thought of as a masterful game of wit. Our elderly play it in the park; we organize inner-city leagues of children, as afterschool programs. All of this happens in our "enlightened" Western civilization; we ignore the lessons we pretend not to teach. Behind the facade of normalcy and academia lurks a darker lesson: racism! Chess pits black against white and white against black. Has no one noticed the underlying prejudice to this supposed game? Chess was invented by white supremacists, why else does white have the first move?! It is an outrage that our minority children are being taught to revere this hideous activity. We claim that chess teaches self-discipline and strategy. Perhaps, but the true lessons are too evil to ignore! They are being taught that, as blacks, they will never have an advantage, and that they will have to fight the white man all of their lives. White children are being taught that they are a step above their African-American counterparts, and that they must struggle to keep their black brothers down. Not only does chess promote race wars, the horror does not stop there! Each piece has certain moves it can make, and those moves are based on the type of piece. Yes, you guessed it: not only does chess teach racism, it alsoglamorizes classism, snobbery, and kidnapping!Not to mention, it doesn't really matter who goes first in a causal game because (theoretically) the guy who goes first has the advantage. The lighter color going first - be it white, green, purple or whatever - is simply a tradition.The person who told you that was attaching relatively modern racial terms (Black & White) to a game that's pretty old historically speaking.This person should realize that not EVERYTHING is about race and that in fact very few things are. Most of the forces and pressures that effect you every second of every day (like gravity, inertia, molecular cohesion, sub-atomic reactions, etc, etc) have NOTHING to do with your skin pigmentation or superficial facial features.Whatever the hell people Say chess ISNT A GAME OF RACE