There is no scientific basis to the concept of "race" among human beings. There is no genetic basis for dividing up people into categories such as "white", "black", "asian", etc. Any genetic trait that one could think of can and does exist in all human populations.
We now know that the way we talk about race has no scientific validity. There is no genetic basis that corresponds with any particular group of people, no essentialist DNA for black people or white people or anyone. This is not a hippy ideal, it’s a fact. There are genetic characteristics that associate with certain populations, but none of these is exclusive, nor correspond uniquely with any one group that might fit a racial epithet. Regional adaptations are real, but these tend to express difference within so-called races, not between them. Sickle-cell anaemia affects people of all skin colours because it has evolved where malaria is common. Tibetans are genetically adapted to high altitude, rendering Chinese residents of Beijing more similar to Europeans than their superficially similar neighbours. Tay-Sachs disease, once thought to be a “Jewish disease”, is as common in French Canadians and Cajuns. And so it goes on.
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The concept of "race" exists only as a tool for subjugation of other people for the purpose of imperialism and self-enrichment by a particular group of people. It is a concept similar to that of "the infidel" or "apostate" in the religious sense. All these concepts are basically used to say to other groups of people "you don't sufficiently look like me or act like me to be considered part of my tribe, so I will conquer and subjugate you, or else I will kill you."
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
Joseph Conrad
Anybody who invokes the concept of "race" in order to differentiate between himself and other people is a
crook and a
charlatan.
"I do great with Latino voters. I employee so many Latinos, I have so many people working for me," Trump said. "The Latinos love Trump, and I Iove them."
Oh such benevolent kings these
men would be, casting their "love" upon their subjects! The cotton plantations were built with just as much "love".