race - 1. a group of people distinguished by genetically transmitted physical characteristics. 2. a group of people united by a common history, nationality or tradition. 3. a subspecies, breed, or strain of plants or animals. (american heritage dictionary)
if the language of 3 isn't clear enough, it refers to plants or animals, not people as humans are not divided into subspecies by any reputable modern geneticist, which is what i said to some earlier poster (bluetiger?) who stated that race was a synonym for "subspecies"...sorry, blue, that's only as concerns plants and animals.
Definition 1 is what I've been saying all along. "genetically transmitted physical characteristics". The odds of me having blue eyes with two black parents are ridiculously high, because that isn't part of the genetically transmitted physical characteristics I received from my parents...and aren't physical characteristics of "black people".
say what you will, racial classification is based on real difference.
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