The incredible thing in this passage is that the author focuses in on skin color as the defining element, whereas the entire purpose of the meme she's examining is precisely to break through the 'race is only skin deep' conditioning by emphasizing structural phenotypic distinctions, in this case prognathism, that have nothing to do with melanin.
An academic can spend thousands of words analyzing something that an ordinary person can understand at a glance, and manage to miss the point entirely.
A teen boy on puberty blockers goes to a urologist because he was wetting his pants in class
Also his pee was strawberry colored from blood and skin flakes
Boy and his mom ask if the incontinence and bloody urine might be side effects from puberty blockers
The transition-friendly urologist says nah, transition drugs are totally safe, the problem is you're holding in your pee *too much*
A few months after stopping the puberty blockers, the boy stopped peeing blood
The urologist was charged this year for allegedly having thousands of pornographic pictures of children
Since privatisation not one major reservoir has been built by the English water companies
While more than 35 have been sold
In the 35 years before privatisation almost 100 reservoirs were built
Chicago, it’s good to be home!
Michelle and I built the Obama Presidential Center to be a place where people of all ages can learn, play, and work – and we can't wait to welcome you all later this week!