Why don't you cool down, henrymercers comments are some of the more intelligent and reasonable comments in this thread. If you would read calmly you would see there is no racism in his words, he is simply not being racist. The word 'legitimate' does not restrict the meaning of the sentence to anything you imply.

Though I agree that his paragraph about decadency through the ages is a bit nutty, everyone has their strange beliefs. Nothing wrong with that.