People generally don't consider dark skinned Indians and dark skinned Nigerians and dark skinned Peruvians to be the same race because they all have dark skin. They're just as different from each other as they are from me despite having more melanin.

> It seems apparent to me that there are at least _some_ cases where the social construct of "race" is useful in a clinical setting.

The concept of skin pigmentation is useful for things related to skin pigmentation. The concept of "race" is still artifice and absolutely the least useful proxy there is for whatever you're actually trying to measure in any given moment.

> Playing Devil's Advocate here

Please don't. https://bofh.org.uk/2018/10/25/devils-advocacy-without-tears...