Race is a socially constructed category created to differentiate groups based primarily on skin color, phenotype, ethnicity, and culture for the sole purpose of showing the superiority or dominance of one group over another. White people created race to justify slavery. The idea of race emerged in 17th & 18th century Europe with the growth colonialism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The term “Caucasian” comes from the Caucasus Mountains as they were thought to be the most physically attractive species. There is currently no clear evidence that suggests race is biological. Placing two skeletons side-by-side, it is impossible to distinguish which one is a person of color. A lot of researchers back in the day believed, that genetically and
