The false concept of race

I was taught about the three races in grade school: Caucasian, Negroid and Mongoloid; the white, black and yellow races as they were commonly called. But what exactly is a race? And where do brown people fit in?

The concept of race seems to have been invented by biologists and anthropologists historically trying to categorize humans on the basis of supposed physical or genetic differences. With the development of genetics, however, scientists no longer recognize race as a biologically valid classification because there is more genetic variation within races than between them.

If there is no genetic difference between humans with different color skins, then what is the function of dividing people by race other than ranking them?

The answer is that it has historically served the interests of white people to justify the concept that people of color are not as valuable as white people.

White people cling to this false concept because it lets us control opportunity. It supports the twisted version of history we need to absolve our collective guilt for the oppression, enslavement and genocide we have inflicted on humans we believe are our inferiors. It justifies our greed, our domination, and our indifference.

This malignant discrimination has been baked into the human spirit for hundreds of years, and we pass down this malignancy from generation to generation like a cancerous gene.