I understand your sentiment, but that statement is historically incorrect. The concept of race wasn't invented in America. I'd recommend using Medium to search "Doctrine of Discovery." The concept of race as skin color was a product of Catholicism's Papacy in the 1400s, though the stirrings of it go back into the 1200s. The concept of race as skin color was later used to hide the religious nature of colonialism, slavery, and oppression. The central role of the Catholic Church in developing the concept of "black" vs. "white" is well documented. The Church was well versed in the ways of slavery as the 1,000 years of the Dark Ages were driven by a monarchical religious feudal model that was a crucible of enslavement and control of the land. If you study that a bit, it may affect the way you see the issue. The belief that race was a product of America is a way of shielding the Church from its ambitions of global dominance...a ploy that America has been willing to accept.