ANNOTATION:
Cybernetics abhors prejudice and racism

Cybernetics should appeal greatly to anyone who is non-racist 
and free of prejudice.  For one of its basic principles is that 
the substrate of a system should not matter, it’s the higher 
level, emergent properties which do.  I.e., the race of a person 
 is to be ignored, what counts is the intelligence, good morals, 
ethics and values issuing forth from them as judged by the 
Turing test.  Thus when SETI establishes contact with 
extraterrestrials we should in theory not even care what they 
look like and instead be satisfied with the content of the 
dialog.  But assuredly their appearance would be the first thing 
we’d want to know.