Darwin did contend certain characteristics give some individuals an edge in surviving. But, to spin that into evolution promoting racism is like linking the development of public education in the 19th Century to racism. It is the logic of apples and oranges equal grapefruit. The resolution asks legislators to deplore all instances and ideologies of racism and reject the core concepts of Darwinist ideology that certain races and classes of humans are inherently superior to others, and does herby condemn the extent to which these philosophies have been used to justify and approve racist practices. The resolution is all about feeling good and perhaps groping for an explanation as to why people can act so savagely toward one another.
Humans do differ as individuals, but it has little to do with race.
Intelligence and physical characteristics lend themselves to survival. Turning evolution s observations on those factors into racist doctrine is a strange twist. Maybe next is a resolution linking Newton s law as racist by the way of The apple doesn t fall far from the tree. Wait until legislators start grappling with the latest genetic findings. The Human Genome Project is telling us there is little difference between a human s genetic code and that of a vegetable or microbe.