The slaughter of millions of innocent lives, and the enslavement of millions of people, are examples of pure unadulterrated evil. Nobody questions using the word "evil" when referring to the slaughter of millions of Jews during the Nazi Holocaust, and the enslavement of millions upon millions of people in the history of slavery on a global scale. In the United States, slavery did not end until after a war that killed over 600,000 young lives was fought, and even then, racism has taken a long time to dwindle to a mere trickle.