In the past, the subject of race has been viewed as an innate biological difference, often with the ill-intent of declaring one racial group superior to another. It would of course make sense then, that the first civil rights movements would be centered fully around the cause of destroying that idea of ‘difference,’ and emphasizing how every person is the same in their basic humanity. I have seen lots of posters, slogans and examples explaining racial diversity in a sort of cute, motivational-speaker-type manner, such as a popular elementary school lesson explaining it by showing that white eggs and brown eggs are identical once you crack them open. This emphasis on ‘sameness’ claims and constantly reaffirms that race is just a social construct, an unreal, non-scientific category that humanity made up in its constant attempt to overcome others or put things in boxes. Continue reading “To Question Science (Is Good)”