You made some brilliant points here, and it inspires a couple of thoughts that I've thought about and tossed around over the years.

Where I agree with you is that race is a designation created to classify and divide human beings. However, in order to teach a child to walk you have to hope they know how to stand.

What can't be disputed is that the figurative designation of race has had real world implications onto the psyches of men and women across this country and beyond.

Simply saying, "It is not real," doesn't heal the wounds caused by a very real system built on racial inequities, with real participants.

Separately from racial designations, we have rampant disregard for darker fleshed men and women in this nation and in others.

This malregard for darker flesh transcends racial classifications, as this is reflected in the Philippines, India, Africa, Brazil and other homogenous nations: the darker the citizen, the more vulnerable they are to mistreatment.

There is an evident mistreatment of certain phenotypes, and as science shows, race has little to no genotypic impact.

But there is something going on in the world, which has epistemological roots. As a species, we have always associated the color "Black" with the bad and the color "white" with the good.

Outside of racial categories, we've almost enacted a self-fulfilling prophecy in how the world views the darker bodied.

We will never be able to approach any kind of racial justice until we come to a reckoning of the effects of this conditioning, as a species, not a group of people who originate from specific continents.

Thank you for your comment. It was brilliant.