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[–] 2420812? 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

The reason why Race is a social construct is that it's not done according to genetic analysis, it's done purely by superficial identifiers. Not all blacks are genetically identical, or anyone of any "race". The genetic difference between individuals of one race is larger than the group differences between races, and the racial grouping is rather arbitrary, for example, the fluid definition of "white" which depending on context, could include, or exclude jewish, or portugese, or whatever, depending on who is defining what is white or not. Similarly, the one drop rule makes someone who is 25% black, considered "black". If you think that racial differences = genetic differences, then let's just drop the race thing and talk about the particular genetic difference, which may exist in people of different "races" but with different frequencies.