How Race Was Made
http://www.sceneonradio.org/episode-32-how-race-was-made-seeing-white-part-2/
According to this series, as a human race we are 99.9% genetically the same. There is more genetic difference in a flock of penguins.
This particular episode makes a case that race is construct created by man for control and power. That’s not to say that race isn’t real and doesn’t have real implications in today’s world - it does. But digging into the history of how systematic racism came to be is important for us to understand how to start to dismantle it.