This is a very white response.

At the asic biological level, you have a point. “Race” is a suite of adaptations to specific climate and diet situations, such as the broader and flatter noses if some Africans, which are a heat adaptation, and less visible factors such as Caucasian lactose tolerance.

At the social level, however, it’s very easy to fall into the trap you have fallen into, of thinking that racism will simply go away if you tell people race doesn’t exist.

This is the official policy of the French government.

In 2020, there were 888 racist criminal acts in France. That’s stuff that warranted police involvement…and that doesn’t count anti-Semitism and islamophobia.

Denying the existance of race and removing it from the census has not eliminated racism in France.

But there is another, more subtle and insidious problem with your approach.

When you tell BIPOC their differences don’t matter because we’re all the human race…then you support sitting on and quelling those differences. I suspect you are very well meaning, because most people who fall into this trap are.

But racial equality is not making everyone the same. It is celebrating and honoring the cultural differences…Black women’s hair, Native American artwork, etc.

Not seeing color inevitably leads to those things not being seen…and thus not welcomed.

I don’t just want to make Black people equal…I want to make Blackness equal. I want Black people to be free to love being Black. Not seeing color does not support that. It supports colonialism.