And he's saying what I am. Correlation of violence to blacks in America is skewed in a way that negatively reflects on the individual because of their skin instead of their culture. This leads to the assumption that someone from Compton will act the same as someone from Johanessburg.

i mean, i feel like i know what you're gonna say, but keep in mind what you just said here

"negatively reflects on the individual because of their skin
not their culture"

in other words, race > ethnicity
you'd think if people accepted that race is a social construct, that kind of shit wouldn't happen, would it

that's precisely my argument

like, whether it's in our DNA or not, it's a social construct

you bring up the ethnicity stuff, which only muddies the water, because it's such a poorly defined term--and then you state that race is institutionalized (which is just another way of saying that it's socially constructed), because it results in racial profiling and other nonsense.

so like
where ARE you on this issue lol

From previous posts, it sounds like he's closer to the side that apparently social aspects of race is a social construct.

Which is true. Yes. All other non-socially constructed aspects of race only really determine physical appearance.

I'm saying that people project cultural issues onto racial traits. This is obviously not right.

Here's the line of thought:

Person finds cultural issue with person > assumes it's because of skin color > assumes next person of that skin color will have the same issue

Instead of tackling a problem as a cultural issue (which of course would not affect every person in an area, I feel like I need to iterate that), people just envelope everyone in that fold.

I'm just making a semantic point: the "problem" is with our culture, not our individual races. Certain people, through ignorance or "opportunity", lump race with ethnicity and confuse the subject. This leads to more ignorance and hate. Obviously not good.

Tl;dr race isn't ethnicity, people need to stop confusing them, it's a bad thing.