“It’s not that the use of BiDil in black patients is immediately going to lead to the resubstantiation of slavery or scientific racism, but it’s a step down the road of re-biologizing race in a way that feeds deep strains of racism,” he tells me. “What we’re seeing now in the US and again on the rise in Europe is a sort of ethno-nationalism. And any sort of indirect or direct approval or imprimatur of using race as a biological category becomes, no matter how well intended, dangerous in those contexts.”
