There is no “race gene,” it’s a biological myth. |
We could tie ourselves in knots trying to untangle the many complexities of racial identity, so let me simply address this with pure science. There is no “race gene,” it’s a biological myth. That doesn’t mean race isn’t real, it means it is a lived experience, rather than something we are born into. As Larry Adelman, Executive Producer of “Race – The Power of an Illusion,” so eloquently put it: “The factors that lead to differential outcomes between races live not in any ‘racial’ genes but in our social institutions and practices.
Celeste Headlee, “There’s No ‘Race Gene’, Halle Berry,” The Takeaway, February 9, 2011. http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/113822-halle-berry-theres-no-race-gene.
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