I'm not white. I'm more of a tasteful beige.
If pressed, I will self identify as African-American though my ancestors took a
fifty thousand year break in their passage to the New World to hang out in
northern Europe.
Race is a leftover cultural concept from the age of expansion of the English/French/Spanish/Dutch/Portugese used to rationalize the subjugation of pretty much everyone they met outside Europe. Other folks, like the Japanese, had similar xenophobic concepts, but were less effective in implementing their empires.
Some current populations would like to keep the old usage, but accumulated knowledge of biology and culture has undermined its justifications.
Others use it as a rhetorical strategy by which they can trump disagreement or stifle discussion.
If pressed, I will self identify as African-American though my ancestors took a
fifty thousand year break in their passage to the New World to hang out in
northern Europe.
Race is a leftover cultural concept from the age of expansion of the English/French/Spanish/Dutch/Portugese used to rationalize the subjugation of pretty much everyone they met outside Europe. Other folks, like the Japanese, had similar xenophobic concepts, but were less effective in implementing their empires.
Some current populations would like to keep the old usage, but accumulated knowledge of biology and culture has undermined its justifications.
Others use it as a rhetorical strategy by which they can trump disagreement or stifle discussion.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
