Zimmerman verdict: Not Guilty.

[gilbertc06]

There is no such thing as race.

The .0000000001% differences between us does not constitute the huge gap in how people treat other people based on the pigment of their skin.

I can deal with all of that shit but I CANNOT deal with people in 2013 who still talk about "race" and act on "race" and deal with "race" as if it were a real thing. There are people with different backgrounds. There are people with different ideals and views. THAT IS IT.

I disagree.

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/...man-races/
http://sandwalk.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/d...exist.html

There is plenty of evidence that humanity is polytypic. This doesn't give us an excuse to treat other races differently of course, but to deny that humanity can be divided up into races is silly.

Well besides culture and skin color...

I don't think it's that simple.

Let's take the "every man is created equal" quote. Obviously men aren't genetically created equal. There will always be variations and certain ones may be advantageous at certain points. But when you look at different groups of people I don't deny that there are differences but they are very trivial. The most convoluted of those groups are "white" and "black". Now if you look into the concept of race from a logical standpoint then you would have to admit that not all "whites" are the same race. Same with blacks since the slave trade. If you were to look at it then you would see that whites have interbred with each other based simply on skin color and not actual race. That is my main gripe with the idea of race. It's based mostly on skin color rather than genetics.

Now, onto the genetics. You wouldn't say that a muscular man and a very skinny man are different races based on that alone would you? Even if the skinny one had a very hard time gaining weight. It's just different genetics. So why would you separate other people based on skin color and a few facial differences? Can't you say that it's just a more obvious difference in genetics brought on by different conditions?

In that sense we are not at the core, any different from each other. We just show slight differences in genetics brought on by: climate, social, geographical, etc .

People like to point out trivial things like how a traditional Japanese man would have bowel problems after eating lasagna for the first time. That is not indicative of race, that is simply diet differences. A dog can eat lasagna, you wouldn't ever call it a human being would you?