Originally posted at Too Sense:
Quick thought:
The concept of "race" is predicated on human beings falling into certain rigid, genetically defined categories. This one over here, his genes put him in the "white" race. That one over there is part of the "black" race by virtue of genetics.
Well, that's all just BS, straight up. And the proof of that point is simple: if "race" actually existed, there would be no such thing as "biracial" or "multiracial" people. Because race means, in itself, that there are no blends, there are distinct groups. Invisible walls of chromosones, dividing us all. Bulwarks of melanin. Biracial/multiracial people are living, breathing proof that the concept of "race" isn't merely wrong, it is impossible as a matter of simple genetics. There are no biological walls. There are no people who could accurately be called "pure" anything. Every group has, at some point in its history, intermingled with some other (supposedly) disparate group.
If you don't believe me, just ask my blue-eyed, blonde-haired daughter, who is "black" according to the legal definition of "race".
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