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Skincolorism — A Better Word For Racism
Yes. Absolutely without a doubt - black lives matter.
However, dark-skinned people are just homo sapiens with dark skin. Nothing more and nothing less. Dark-skinned people are not more intelligent or less intelligent than people with pale skin.
Throughout human history, people have had a tendency to divide each other into groups. Most often, physical characteristics are used to distinguish between groups, and the groups have been named races or tribes. Some people have long believed that many characteristics of a person could be determined by simply looking at the person’s skin color or ”race”.
Intelligence is one trait that has been studied in an attempt to relate it to these so-called races. Just take a read of Hitler’s mad and unsubstantiated attempt to prove the Arrayan race was superior to all others. The best evidence does not support the idea that people of any “race” are more or less intelligent than those of any other “race”. In addition, intelligence testing is an imperfect science. Traditional IQ tests are skewed to favor certain segments of society. As I have written several times, “race” based on skin color is a social construct. There are NO human “races” on planet earth. There is only the human race. Homo sapiens, bi-pedal apes, or human beings, call them what you will; every…
