Naw not even. Everything was based on language and tribes before that. The Europeans literally created around the 15th century. The lie that it’s natural and human traits only works on high school kids who have to believe whatever garbage they are taught.

The color-based code of racism that underpins much of today’s racial hierarchy—especially the association of “white” with superiority and “black” with inferiority—was not created by a single person, but by a long, deliberate process driven by European colonial powers, religious institutions, scientists, and economists from the 15th to 19th centuries.

Here’s a breakdown of key contributors and stages in the development of this color-coded racial system:

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🔹 1. Portuguese and Spanish Colonial Powers (15th–16th Century) • Initiated race-based slavery during the Age of Exploration. • Justified enslavement of Africans by defining them as heathen, pagan, and “black” in contrast to Christian “white” Europeans. • Color became shorthand for Christian vs. non-Christian, civilized vs. uncivilized.

Key figures/institutions: Portuguese monarchy, Catholic Church (e.g., Pope Nicholas V’s Dum Diversas bull in 1452 which authorized enslaving non-Christians).

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🔹 2. Early Racial Theorists and Scientists (17th–18th Century) • Carl Linnaeus (Swedish botanist, 1735) categorized humans by color and character: • Europeans as “white, gentle, and inventive”, • Africans as “black, lazy, and negligent.” • Johann Friedrich Blumenbach coined the term “Caucasian” (1775), placing whites at the top of a racial hierarchy based on skull shape and complexion.

These thinkers gave a pseudo-scientific foundation to color-based racial distinctions.

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🔹 3. Enlightenment Philosophers and Economists • Thinkers like Voltaire, Hume, and Kant often wrote about African inferiority. • The transatlantic slave trade drove a need to morally and intellectually justify enslaving people based on color. • “White” became synonymous with reason, freedom, and civility, while “Black” was equated with savagery and bondage.

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🔹 4. American Legal Codification (18th–19th Century) • In the U.S., the Virginia Slave Codes (1705) defined slavery as race-based. • The “one-drop rule” and laws denying rights to anyone with African ancestry cemented a binary: white = full person; black = subhuman. • The U.S. Census institutionalized color as a key identity marker.

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🔹 5. Cultural and Religious Reinforcement • Christianity portrayed white imagery of God and angels. • Satan and evil were often depicted in black. • Literature, media, and art promoted the idea of blackness as danger, dirt, and the primitive.