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One of the most stubborn racist ideas is that race has some biological basis. Many Americans—perhaps most of them—think that there’s some specific genetic sequence that makes someone white, Black, Asian, or any other race. They assume that Black people share a certain set of traits that white people don’t—after all, that seems like the easiest explanation for differences in skin color.
But this idea isn’t true—not even a little bit. There is zero genetic basis for race. As Kendi has noted in his other work, most people from West Africa are genetically closer to people from Europe than to…