I'd like to hear what people think of the response to a Youtube video I made today. Do I make sense or do you think I'm wrong?
We no longer live in the 18th century and modern genetic research undeniably proves listing 4, 5 and even 6 different races was and is wrong. There is only one race, the human race. Ancestral, enviromental adaptations never altered the core DNA of humans. Therefore, affirmative action or any other subject that seperates people by the tint of their skin is both intellectually and ethically wrong. The true important debate should be when will the human species finally become enlightened, accept we are all brothers and sisters and throw this shameful, antiquated and segregative philosophy finally into history, where it belongs?
You did not link to the video, or post html text to it, but I will respond based on the text above. Yes, there is only one race...the human race, but that does not mean there are not variations within that race the same as there are variations in the flowers, trees, amphibians, mammals, reptiles, etc. There are inherent differences that set us apart by those variations. Perhaps as David (below) suggested, breed would be a better term to use, but a rose by any other name is still a rose. So demarcating the human race by separate categorical races is scientifically appropriate. So no, there is no one "race" per se, but the entirety of races being called the 'human race,' yes, there is one "human" race. AA wasn't about color of skin so much as it was about "racism," the false belief that one race of human beings is more superior to another race of human beings. The differing classifications between the races has nothing to do with the "shameful, antiquated and segregative philisophy" human beings have created and propagated. Again, that goes back to "racism" and "stereotyping." Your theory and argument for debate here is way off point. You need some education by Thomas Sowell and Heather Mac Donald.
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Race is a human construct, so it does exist.
Maybe it's more accurate to use the term 'breed'. The only difference is that we would then have 'breedism' instead of racism.