Is this like "Banal Race Theory", "Safe Race Theory", "Don't-Question-It Race Theory" or something?

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7. First thing to remember is that race and ethnicity are both socially constructed concepts

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"None of us gets to choose our parents, ethnicity and whatever goes along with that."

I feel like that this is a scratch but I think we can delve deeper here, I think that our race/ethnic identities are not something we are necessarily born into either, but they are chosen for us against our will by a number of institutions; ranging from culture, borders of countries, to religion, medicine, to the government, media, and more.

It's not something in our DNA or in family trees; it's something that one could really say is something that is manufactured, patented, packaged, marketed, and sold to us.

Race and even ethnicity is not natural, normal, genetic, or divinely-inspired... it should actually be an easy truth to say, teach, and hear, but we see that it still is not.

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