"Racism"

[BmorePat87]

(03-23-2018, 10:07 AM)Bengalzona Wrote: I'm playing catch-up in this thread, so I haven't seen the study you posted earlier. Here is a link that cites several different genetic racial studies:

https://listverse.com/2015/08/02/10-contentious-explanations-for-racial-differences/

It interesting reading. For instance, did you know that white skin is a genetic rarity, a mutation that developed over time:



But dark skin was also a genetic racial mutation:



Apparently, human beings have been changing colors over time to adapt to where they are living. Not at will, of course, but through evolution.

Perhaps more interesting to the recent discussion in here is this bit about Ashkenazi Jews:



The difference in intellect can be measured, to some degree, and does appear to exist. The reasons why are contentious and still being debated. We may never know. Sound familiar? This reminds me a lot of the discussion here about black people in sports in the U.S. It is contentious. And for various reasons, few of which have to do with hard science, people want to believe certain things. But we may never have all of the answers.

Myself, I rather like the "Karma Concept" of one group of people enslaving and/or putting down another group of people, and in the process strengthening and enhancing future offspring of the group they are trying to put down.

Arguing that race is a social construct does not mean people argue that we are not genetically diverse. A lot of the characteristics on this list are characteristics found in ethnicities, which are specific region based, not necessarily races. Blue eyes, for example, are linked to populations near the Black Sea. Eastern/Northern Europeans, Western Asians, and North Africans too. 

When we talk about Black American athletes, we're discussing a group of people from that a population that is 95% from a very limited region of Africa. Likewise, if we discussed White Americans, we're primarily discussing German, Irish, or British populations. So if I make a declaration about a race based on this limited population and I only test my declaration on this limited population, I am going to confirm my claim.