Race is a social construct; except when black people’s health is at risk…
The polite fiction that race and ethnicity are purely superficial and social aspects of life is swiftly abandoned whenever convenient. This results in something rather like ‘doublethink’ in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four; when two contradictory and opposing ideas are both believed simultaneously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOFgFU3p5Nw&ab_channel=HistoryDebunked