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Now there's some good news!

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Great, heartening — my granddaughter yearns for cocoa skin tone like her half Black, half Italian pal.

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I love this. As you say, scientists have long told us that race is not a biological concept, but it has been for some time a powerful social concept. Your data gives us a great deal of hope that perhaps our long struggle against racial ideology and racist may be taking a positive turn. Hooray!

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Thanks, Alan. Means a lot to get confirmation from a scientist!

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Thanks, Marcia. I'm afraid might be right. Freud called this the tyranny of small differences.

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Unfortunately, just because we’re increasingly mixed race doesn’t mean that we won’t look down on others who are less or more of something than we are if history is any indication

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