![]() I say over and over that race is a concept, but the ingredients of the concept are that race is biological, permanent and intrinsic. And so being on the move and having sex, they’re always getting mixed up. But what you find is that people are always on the move, and they’re always having sex. What I did find fascinating as I was working on The History of White People was the degree to which migration is typical of human history - that people have been moving ever since people have been people, and that the demographers trace where people have come and gone and so forth. ![]() ![]() If you want to assign race or geography to your DNA, I prefer to say it’s just all human, but if you want to put it somewhere it comes from Africa. The earliest homo sapiens are from Africa, and so everybody’s carrying around little bits of their DNA. Well, in the sense that we all have African ancestry. ![]() You’ve said before that we’re actually all black. I was wondering about The History of White People. ![]()
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