This exercise effectively solidified the fact that race is a social-construct that serves to disenfranchise the dispossessed whilst allowing for those who’re in power to remain that way. By engaging in the “Exploring Traits” activity one can easily see how race has no real basis, whether it be via phenotype or genotype. One thing was made very evident through this activity, whether or not they were in the same racial category didn’t matter in the slightest: skin color, blood-type, and even finger-print shape vary immensely within humankind, and this variation only increases when one puts single race underneath the lens. It was after completing “Exploring Traits” that I decided to explore the topic further by selecting the “going deeper” option
