There is no such thing as a 'white person'. Identifying with 'white' instead of identifying with your social class is a form of false consciousness at best. Human genetics are remarkably uniform. Only 0.1 percent of human genetic material is variable, and more than 85 percent of that 0.1 percent difference is found within human groups, not between them, and the remainder varies with geography and location.In 1871, Charles Darwin argued that people cannot be divided into distinct ‘races’:
Man has been studied more carefully than any other animal, and yet there is the greatest possible diversity amongst capable judges whether he should be classed as a single species or race, or as two (Virey), as three (Jacquinot), as four (Kant), five (Blumenbach), six (Buffon), seven (Hunter), eight (Agassiz), eleven (Pickering), fifteen (Bory St. Vincent), sixteen (Desmoulins), twenty-two (Morton), sixty (Crawfurd), or as sixty-three, according to Burke.
The discovery that humanity is one biological family should have made the concept of ‘race’ obsolete and ended the practice of racism. It has not done so, because racism is financially and politically necessary for capitalism.
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