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With the recent killing of George Floyd & Officer David Dorn & the racism toward Orientals throughout this planet because of Covid-19, I been questioning whether seeing race as a "social construct" is really solving racism.
Since the last 100 years, scientists, theologians, politicians, philosophers, etc, have been seeing the concept of race as a social construct, starting with anthropologist Franz Boas & philosopher
José Vasconcelos, both of Jewish ancestry, then you had the National socialists, with their racist ideas, after WWII, the UN was formed, & since the 1950s, among anthropologists, biologists, psychologists, & sociologists, the concept of race has fell apart as a biological fact, by the end of the 20th century, most anthropologists (except for half of physical anthropologists) already believed that race doesn't exist at all, but it's a social construct.
But we are already now 20 years into the 21st century, & racism is still a huge problem throughout the world, people see differences everyday, so is this "social construction of race" really helping our species, the answer is simply NO.
Yes, Race is indeed a biological fact, it's a genetic category, my parents are both mestizos, three of my grandparents are mestizos, my parental grandfather was Caucasian, If I marry a Caucasian woman, my children will be predominantly Caucasian.
I did many DNA tests, with 23andMe, Ancestry, FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritageDNA, Gedmatch, WeGene, & a few other companies, all came out a mix of Caucasian & Native American, with a bit of Sub-Saharan African, with traces of Neanderthal ancestry.
Why are Forensic Anthropologists (like the TV show Bones, for example) are very good at identifying the racial identity of a deceased person.
Why do different racial groups get different diseases, why are some racial groups better at some sports than others, why do different racial groups score different on IQ than other races (on average), & why do genetic clusters prove the biological reality of race.
So what's the point of this thread, is that race realism is indeed a fact, race does exist, we must respect & honor our racial differences, human biodiversity is a great thing, I don't believe that I'm better than anybody else, I don't feel superior to anybody else, I have friends & relatives of every race out there, I come from a very mixed-race family, all the Genus Homo is made in the image of God, we are human beings, it's time to end this nonsense, God loves all humanity, so may god bless you guys & have a good day.
Since the last 100 years, scientists, theologians, politicians, philosophers, etc, have been seeing the concept of race as a social construct, starting with anthropologist Franz Boas & philosopher
José Vasconcelos, both of Jewish ancestry, then you had the National socialists, with their racist ideas, after WWII, the UN was formed, & since the 1950s, among anthropologists, biologists, psychologists, & sociologists, the concept of race has fell apart as a biological fact, by the end of the 20th century, most anthropologists (except for half of physical anthropologists) already believed that race doesn't exist at all, but it's a social construct.
But we are already now 20 years into the 21st century, & racism is still a huge problem throughout the world, people see differences everyday, so is this "social construction of race" really helping our species, the answer is simply NO.
Yes, Race is indeed a biological fact, it's a genetic category, my parents are both mestizos, three of my grandparents are mestizos, my parental grandfather was Caucasian, If I marry a Caucasian woman, my children will be predominantly Caucasian.
I did many DNA tests, with 23andMe, Ancestry, FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritageDNA, Gedmatch, WeGene, & a few other companies, all came out a mix of Caucasian & Native American, with a bit of Sub-Saharan African, with traces of Neanderthal ancestry.
Why are Forensic Anthropologists (like the TV show Bones, for example) are very good at identifying the racial identity of a deceased person.
Why do different racial groups get different diseases, why are some racial groups better at some sports than others, why do different racial groups score different on IQ than other races (on average), & why do genetic clusters prove the biological reality of race.
So what's the point of this thread, is that race realism is indeed a fact, race does exist, we must respect & honor our racial differences, human biodiversity is a great thing, I don't believe that I'm better than anybody else, I don't feel superior to anybody else, I have friends & relatives of every race out there, I come from a very mixed-race family, all the Genus Homo is made in the image of God, we are human beings, it's time to end this nonsense, God loves all humanity, so may god bless you guys & have a good day.