Excellent article. “Race” is purely a social, cultural, and, in past times, at least, legal construct. We are all related genetically.
People are just people.
“The discovery of a personal whiteness among the world’s peoples is a very modern thing,—a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed.” – W. E. B. Du Bois
What color is your skin?
You don’t have to look. You know. It’s a bedrock fact of your existence like your name, religion or nationality.
But go ahead and take a look. Hold out your hand and take a good, long stare.
What do you see?
White? Black? Brown?
More than likely, you don’t see any of those colors.
You see some gradation, a hue somewhere in the middle, but in the back of your mind you label it black, white, brown, etc.
When I look, I see light peach with splotches of pink. But I know that I’m white, White, WHITE.
So where did this idea come from? If my skin isn’t actually white – it’s not the same white I’d…
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