The terms are inaccurate, per se, as identifiers; there are distinct differences in skin tones.
Then the accurate thing to do would be to identify people for what they actually are, using terms that do not carry the cultural baggage of the usual terms.
In practice, you would say that someone is "beige" if they are beige. Or "brown" if they are brown. Descriptions would only be physical, not racial. I'm not sorry that this makes more sense than what we actually do.
Cultural identifiers should be regional. If you are from Germany, then that is the term that should be used. Nigeria? --> Nigerian. Etc., Etc.
Where the construct has problems is that people tend to load up the identifiers with attributes that are associated with them.
Which is precisely why they should be abandoned like the poison that they are. It is essentially an unnecessary tradition that continues to guide us down a destructive path, and all of it is based upon falsehoods.
If we abandon black and white, humans will find some other way to denote the differences and then associated attributes with those differences. I'm afraid that's human nature.
While I agree in principle with your point on human nature, abandoning black and white abandons a particularly awful set of myths and would benefit everyone not served by the lie (I.E., equality). Brown and beige, which are more accurate, do not carry that baggage. The more that people use correct identifiers, the more we will be able to reduce the effects of the false terms.
Continuing on with a society built upon faulty constructs will continue to undermine everything else that is positive in society. "Black" and "white" are that monolithic. No one in either category can live up to the baggage. But in making the attempt, they must necessarily dehumanize themselves and others.
The term "construct" sound high falutin, but in its absence, what word would we use, because it identifies what we humans do, again, construct a series of attributes that we associate with specific human characteristics? If we don't call them constructs, we must invent another word for it.
"Beige" is just a physical descriptor. Same with "brown". People can still attach mythic meanings to anything, sure. But less so when it is tied to something accurate. Terms like German and Nigerian can still be mythic, but at least there are actualities that can benefit cultures and people that are real. "White" is a projection that never had a basis in reality, whatsoever. It is pure simulacra.
