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Systematic/Institutionalized Racism

We have to all begin to truly understand how we human beings work. It’s about you and it’s about me - it's all of us. It has partly to do with culture as culture is an implementation side of human nature. But skin color has absolutely nothing to do with human nature - other than its tie to the social construct called race, and the resulting historical socioeconomic, social, and cultural disparity - all a byproduct of human nature we all share. Regarding race, there is no race gene. More genes are involved in the differences between siblings than what dictates the color of your skin (like how my dad Chuck would get darker in the summer than some people I know who identify as a POC - person of color). I’d just get freckles and burn. Also, migration genetics revealed my (white) genes are as likely to be more similar to a black stranger than the next white stranger, as vice versa (freckles and all). But this isn’t really about truth. It’s about the political narrative we’re bombard...