Tuesday, July 10, 2007

surprise! a lot of black people in the americas have white ancestors!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6284806.stm
this annoys me in general because for so many of us its pretty obvious that you cant tell a person's genetic make up just by looking at them, which is why the concept of "race" is so useless if you try to understand it as genetic rather than as the social construct that it is.
i guess eventually they'll do this in the states and then everyone will realize that most, if not all, african-americans are mixed.
not that this even changes anything, because people are dumb and it'll take ages before average people are able to see through racist constructs. but i guess its a start.

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