Please source this. Who wrote it? Black is capitalized as is Caucasian. White isn’t a race. What a dumb, lazy writer. Just take two seconds to think about what you are saying!!!
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Well to be fair “Black” shouldn’t be a race either, it’s a skin color. In fact homo sapiens has no races, it has ethnicities, and if we did a better job at cataloguing African genetic heritage, they’d be more defined in Scientific literature by now.
We capitalize the names of shared geographic ancestries. But many people of African descent in the US had their ancestors stolen from their homes and sent to America to be enslaved. Thus they have no record of their ancestry other than "Africa."
Africa is a vast continent with many cultures and nationalities. Calling them "African-Americans" is just as incorrect as calling whites "European-Americans." Sure, it's maybe *technically* correct, but not in any helpful sort of way.
The difference is that white Americans know which European country or countries their ancestors came from, even if they were (like mine) criminals sentenced to transportation. Black Americans do not have access to their history in this way, so "Afr.-Amer." or "Black" is as specific as they can get.
Well, sort of, or at least for now. As I mentioned, we need more DNA data from African countries to better understand the different ethnicities and genetic families in the continent, but there’s been a lot of progress, so it is technically possible for a Black American to find out where they’re from
However, they do share a common experience: that of enslaved and emancipated PoC in the US, who routinely face discrimination and constantly have to fight for the equal rights guaranteed to all Americans.
Outside of the US, Caucasian stopped being used to signify race at the same time as Negroid and Mongoloid. Capitalized White is considered a race as much as capitalized Black is.
If you really want to see the truth of this, come to Europe. Any country will do. If white is a kind of person, no one has told anyone here, lol. You can't lump an English person with a German person and tell them both 'you're the same'.
Black isn’t a race either. Also the very concept of “race” among humans ignores the fact that ethnicities blur those racial lines. This is due to the fact that whenever there is a tiny bit of genetic drift others find that group and mix with them. We’ve been doing it since Neanderthal was a race…
And with groups such as Neanderthal you could argue an actual races separate from us. That and maybe aboriginal Australia but keep in mind they’re absolutely still homosapian. With little extra drift from isolation. It’s all arbitrary. Medically ethnicity matters, but “race” not so much.
Well technically we’ve been doing it since before we were homosapians. There are far older examples of mixing. It’s something we’ve always done. It’s part of what makes us successful as a species. A wider genetic pool is necessary for punctuated equilibrium in most cases
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We capitalize the names of shared geographic ancestries. But many people of African descent in the US had their ancestors stolen from their homes and sent to America to be enslaved. Thus they have no record of their ancestry other than "Africa."
Tamils are black. Australian Aboriginals are black.