"Racism"

[BmorePat87]

(03-15-2018, 06:06 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Again, just because the range of black/brown is wide does not mean the range includes white.

How many white people have the sickle cell trait?

Again, you're falling into the same flawed line of thinking that Matt addressed before. You're equating an ethnic and regional trait to an entire race. Sickle cell isn't unique to black people, it's found in people whose ethnicity can be traced to areas that are highly affected by malaria. That's why you find it in the Middle East and India too. 

Within Africa, you are more likely to find the trait in the central coastal regions, but not in Northern or Southern Africa. 


Most black people in the US are descendants of slaves, so their gene pool is more closely related to those regions where slaves come from. When studies are done on the black population in the US, it's really focused on a specific group from one region. People have tried to point to bones as another thing that proves race. That is riddled with the same issue. These examples only work for specific African ethnicities are not not universal. 

The same thing goes with white people in the US. We're mostly German, Irish, and English. Patterns drawn from White Americans would not necessarily be relevant for other white groups like Greeks or Russians outside of the US.


All of this aside, there's no common gene cluster for race.