The preference of using a system based on arbitrary scales of skin color to “classify” humans instead of using the much better system of ethnic roots and countries of origin is just baffling to me.

If I’m French-American and I’m told that I shouldn’t care about my roots because everything that people of a similar skin tone have done is evil, then fuck you.

Same goes for the opposite of the spectrum. I’m actually a Mestizo (mixed European and American Native) from Peru and if you just clump us together with people of a similar skin tone and darker, completely ignoring the obvious differences in our ethnic histories and homelands, then fuck you too.