people love to “not everything is about race” bc you bring up how uncomfortable it is to watch a show where two seasons later we’re told all the characters of color were actually the evil lying abusers to the redeemed white character
this is why i think one of the curse mark's main purposes is to keep the branch family physically inferior, which is why neji's byakugan absolutely SUCKS compared to hinata's despite training it constantly. it doesn't just seal the byakugan upon death, it weakens it in life too