abaya

I'm an anthropologist, okay... I have argued till I was blue in the face, both here and IRL, that race is a cultural construction based on phenotypical differences based on clines. Race is not real, in the biological sense. However, it is VERY real in a socio-cultural sense, and that is where this is a problem. You're right that there is no difference between black and white people... but the problem is that they are *still* treated very differently. That's not a figment of anyone's imagination. And unfortunately, it's a lot easier to say "I don't see any differences" when you're in the majority. It's not an imagined difference, not yet. I wish it were, believe me... very much. (Or, AKA... "what Will said earlier")

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