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Instead of having many tiny quote boxes, I'm just writing a mamoth post. I believe this would be easier to read 
First of all, yes, racism doesn't make sense and its concept is meaningless for races don't exist. However, I won't be as naive as to say that there aren't individuals who label people according to their reference of what races are and behave accordingly to this belief. The belief and the believer are independent entities.
And population genetics do exist but claiming one population is better than another is quite frivolous, because a population is not independent - there are migrations, for example, and even if there's a certain "more evolved gene", it would hardly be exclusive to the individuals of that population and/or be present in all individuals.
My friend is not native Brazilian - her parents are Japanese (as in "individuals born in Japan"). This is a quite common mistake actually. Funnily enough, she's got a friend at the colony who's often mistaken as being native Brazilian, simply because there isn't much difference anyway (other than the average amount of melanine, for example). As a matter of fact, she also looks like an inuit .
It's also true that we're not much different from an ape either, however we share too many common features in order to divide people into "races". Other than skin colour and eye-shape, there's no much difference (eye colour is not a criteria because you can have brown eyed "white people", for instance, and you have the same situation with hair colour).
Neither I'm denying evolution, nor I'm contradicting myself. The thing is - there was a population bottleneck in Africa and we come from a rather small original population. Since then, there have been no major changes other than a few adaptive mutations (straight hair offers protection from the cold, melanine offers better protection for sunlight). In fact, even those test tathi mentioned are usually biased and can't really be objective for social problems (the link is for Race and intelligence, by the way  ).
You had not heard of a pre-Inuit Eskimo culture? Here is a simple page on History of the Inuit and it's quite interesting actually. By the way, Inuit and Eskimo are different words for the same people (one is native and the other is of French origin). It's, as usual, closely related to migrations.
As for the dogs, there's one little problem - like many other creatures, if it finds itself in danger, it's likely to attack the "agressor". Heck, my brother's been attacked by our poodle (My brother deserved it though ). The difference would be that a pitbull has a powerful jaw and I really wouldn't like to be bitten by a playful pitbull (although I wouldn't mind if a frenzy chihuahua came towards my direction). I had a German Shepherd and it never attacked anyone, even though the bastard was supposed to be our guardian dog - he was used to being well-treated so he would often see a stranger as a friend
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