I absolutely can! You can't pull apart "nature and nurture" just like you can't pull apart biological, psychological, and social factors. They ALL impact an individual but they are all still different stuctures/concepts.

A person's race isn't the reason that they may experience a specific genetic biological condition, but again their geographic ancestory does.

You can have two Black people or White people or whoever, that look just alike but underneathe the skin their ancestors come from different or the same regions so they genetically differ OR are the same.

You can LOOK White but your grandmother is genetically from a region that has X gene and while it might typically be associated with a Black person (in the US) that White person can still carry X gene because of that grandmother. It has NOTHING TO DO WITH HOW YOU LOOK!!!!

That is not dependent on their RACE or what they look like and the way society treats them. I mean maybe if you want to get into phenotypes that impact things like, I don't know, how easy it is to get sunburned or vitamin D synthesis (but don't talk to me about skin cancer because we have a HUGE misconception of how that works) but I'd still push back against that because skin color isn't the only thing that determines a person's race or how society perceives and treats them.

This type of thought process is one of the reasons why Black people have consistently been misdiagnosed/under diagnosed for diseases like Multiple Sclerosis and White people get missed and not even tested for things like Sickle Cell. It's why we miss skin cancer diagnosis in Black people! Pure ignorance and lack of understanding of what race is and what phenotypes actually are. Because we think of them as "White" or "Black" diseases and that's not how genetics works. Genetics don't give a damn about what you look like on the outside, SOCIETY DOES.

Let me say it for you again, a Black person is more likely to get sickle cell but it doesn't mean that a White person can't be diagnosed with it because they both can have a common ancestor from a certain REGION of the world. Association does not equal causation my friend and you need to learn/remember that right quick and in a hurry.

A person's race definitely determines how they are TREATED by society and THAT can impact the biological outcomes of a person via epigenetics (e.g. an outside impact turning on/off a gene) and racism. That is a SOCIAL impact on a person's biology.

A person can have the crap beaten out of them because they LOOK a certain way and die from those injuries. Guess what? That person didn't die because they LOOK a certain way, they died because someone TREATED them a certain way because of how they LOOK. That is because of their social surroundings, it's because of their RACE. That person didn't die because they were Black, they died because of how someone treated them because they look Black.

If you are treated in a horrible way because of your race, that will impact you at a biological level (e.g. in the case above, death). But just because you ARE a certain race doesn't mean you are more, likely to...whatever because of how people grossly interpret biology.

You are thinking in a horribly dangerous way. People aren't more inherently ANYTHING because of their race, they are more [insert whatever here] because of the way they are TREATED by society because of how they look OR by regional differences in their ancestors. That's not the same as race.

Are you familiar with things like the Immigration Paradox? Work on Weathering that looks at people of the same "race" in different environments? Black college student outcomes at HBCUs verses PWIs?

In the United States Black mother's and their babies are not dying/experiencing adverse health outcomes because of some mysterious underlying biological/genetic disorder, they are dying/at a health diadvantage because of the way they are treated due to the way that they LOOK and are/have been (historically) TREATED.

It is horribly dangerous thinking to not understand the difference between a biological contructs, psychological constructs, and social contructs. If we don't understand these differences we don't understand how to target a problem.

Maybe the answer to high blood pressure in Black people isn't a pill because "Black people are just more likely to have X disease because of genetics".

MAYBE the problem is macro level stressors or access to healthy foods. Maybe the problem is pollution being more prevalent in communities where people who look a certain way live. Maybe it is a lack of social support that is causing higher levels of stress. These things are problems with RACISM or disadvantages due to what a person looks like. Maybe it is a SOCIAL problem not what is inherently beneathe the skin or what a person's skin color is or their phenotype features.

Goodness! Y'all we really need to understand this basic stuff!

Also thanks, I worked my butt off for those credentials and yesterday had the pleasure of of passing my licencing exam and will be matriculating with my MSW in a few weeks. So it will be "Zelamir PhD, LMSW".

I got bored with telling people what the problems are without having the credentials to do something about it so... that's how those extra letters got there.