Peter Mills
Nov 3 · 2 min read

Oh I see. Because those “in the know” such as you don’t accept her transition, she can’t be black. Except she managed to fool pretty much everyone for many years until she was exposed.

In any case, anyone with a modicum of knowledge of biology understands that race is not a social construct. If you perform a cluster analysis of the genomes of multiple races you find the resulting classes more or less correspond with our traditional conceptions of race. If you have two isolated populations at the very least there’s going to be some genetic drift. Less than 300 years previous, the only way for the average person to get from place to place was to walk. Consider the locations of each of the races on the globe and then notice that each is separated by either a very large distance or some kind of natural barrier such as a desert or mountain range or both.

You can also consider genetic strengths and weaknesses. Why is it that the start line of an Olympic sprint is occupied exclusively by West Africans? Why are the best marathoners from East Africa? The contrast between N. American aboriginals and those of European descent throw the differences between the two races in stark relief. First, most of the N. American aboriginals died of plague long before they set eyes on a European. This is because they had not developed any resistance to the diseases that originated from livestock animals and that had plagued Europeans for years. Second, alcoholism is a big problem on the reserves. This is because N. American aboriginals did not drink alcohol and so had not developed the enzymes necessary to break it down.

There are many similar analyses you can do that prove quite conclusively that race is not a social construct but rather is firmly rooted in our genes and ancestry. A much simpler analysis, that does not require any knowledge of biology, is as follows. I am a first-generation Canadian. Both my parents are from Europe. If you trace back my family tree you will find that virtually all my ancestors are also from Europe, likely back many generations. In this way I am more closely related to other Europeans than to an African, an Asian and least of all, a N. American aboriginal.

I hope you can also see that by denying the genetic basis of race you will cause more problems than you solve, for instance because you can’t recognize the root cause of the alcoholism that plagues the N. American aboriginal.

    Peter Mills

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