{"id":7853,"date":"2002-12-11T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-11T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=7853"},"modified":"2021-06-30T15:28:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T15:28:35","slug":"lte-race-and-social-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2002\/12\/11\/lte-race-and-social-structures\/","title":{"rendered":"LTE: Race and Social Structures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: Wed, December 11, 2002 6:02 pm<br>From:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:little_malcolm@msn.com\">Chisanga Puta<\/a><br>Subject: Letter to the Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear MR,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your conclusions that race is not a biological concept, but a \u201csocial ctructure\u201d based on \u201csuperfical\u201d features( phenotype ) is intellectual dishonesty and completely politically motivated. This is not the first time ideaology has hindered our understanding of science( think back to when people of African descent were considered by scientists, not just kkk\/white supremacist, to be genetically inferior to people of European descent. It is now considered politically correct to be \u201ccolor blind\u201d, so our study of science reflects this, similar to back in the day when it was the norm to consider African-descended people inferior ). The main reasons why scientists claim race has no bioligical significance is because all human beings share 99.9% of the same genes and people can have more in common with someone from another race, genetically, then someone within their own race. This might sound impressive, \u201cscientific\u201d, and convincing that there is no real genetic differences between the races, however, human beings share 20-30% of their genes with common yeast and bacteria, 80% with birds, 90% with non-primate animals, 99% with chimpanzees and just recently discovered, 99% with mice( humans even have the genes that can produce tails ). Since we have 99% in common with mice, for example, there are mice that I have more in common genetically then with other human beings, if you look at all 100% of our genes and not the 1% that makes us a different species. Of course, no one would claim \u201cspecies is a social contruct \u201c. To classify organisms by their phenotype is only \u201csuperficial\u201d when dealing with humans but a lot of other organisms are classified this way( not in terms of species, because a species is any group of organisms who can produce fertile offspring, but with subspecies\/race ). If 1% can differentiate humans from a completely different species like mice or chimpanzees, then I\u2019m sure .1% of our genes is actually very significant and can differentiate us as a completely different race w\/in a species. Obviously, all human beings belong to the same species=homo sapian sapian and are fully capable of reproducing fertile offspring. I feel often race \u201cdeconstructionsists\u201d mistake species with race.There are also other organisms that have evolved into distinct subspecies among themselves in the same time that we have, but that scientists claim is too little time to.Again, the reason for this biased interpretation is purely political in origin, it\u2019s \u201cpolitical correct\u201d to deny the importance of race or even the existance, now. I\u2019m only 17 years old, and isn\u2019t doesn\u2019t take a rocket scientist to realize, this is intellectually dishonesty, and I stress the word dishonesty. I hope people reading this letter, if it\u2019s posted, read it with open mind and take what I\u2019m saying into consideration. I don\u2019t want to attack your political convictions, but just to present another perspective on this issue. OneLove<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Wed, December 11, 2002 6:02 pmFrom:&nbsp;Chisanga PutaSubject: Letter to the Editor Dear MR, Your conclusions that race is not a biological concept, but a \u201csocial ctructure\u201d based on \u201csuperfical\u201d features( phenotype ) is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":7987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reader-forum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-22F","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Letters-to-the-Editor.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7854,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853\/revisions\/7854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}