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Old 09-11-2013, 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
If there were no difference, you wouldn't have only certain groups affected by certain diseases-- for example, sickle-cell disease is almost unheard of in whites, but appears in people with African ancestry. That's a bona fide genetic trait that, for the most part, appears in one 'race' but not the other.
What you're referring to here, which is quite separate from the other bit I quoted, refers to ethnicity, not "race." All "black people" (a race) do not have a propensity for sickle cell. See: black people from south america, indian subcontinent, australia.

"African ethnicity" is a thing, "black people" is not.
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