 that was created by races in order to divide humanity by color. There's only one race, as John Jackson says in the introduction to Introduction to African Civilization. There's only one race, the human race, which had its origins in Africa. But as Africans moved to various parts of the world, and over a period of tens of thousands of years, they adapted to their environment, and through the process of speciation, they became the so-called races that now populate the planet,