What we can also say with an arsenal of scientific ammunition is that though skin colour is the first and most obvious way we see humans, it’s a superficial route to an understanding of human variation, and a very bad way to classify people. Our view of reality, so profoundly limited, has been co-opted into a deliberate political lie. We say ‘black’ when what we mean is ‘recently descended from a continent that has more genetic diversity and pigmentation diversity than anywhere else on Earth’.
