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Scientifically speaking, if races further away from Africa are the result of mutation does that mean that they've mutated into something genetically superior?
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There are just as many generation between someone who lives today in Africa and a human that lived 50,000 years ago in Africa as there are between someone who lives today in Europe and someone who lived 50,000 years ago in Africa.
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So we are all mutants. Races are merely mutations.
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That argument doesn't do anything to invalidate the concept of race.
For some medical reasons it's sometimes even beneficial for a doctor to treat patients of different races differently. It's not wrong for a doctor to do an extra test against sickle cell anemia when he has a black patient.
The topic is about morals and not much about biology.
Ingroup/Outgroup morality creates a lot of our human morality.
If you go deeper into decision theory you also find that you have to get your bayesian priors from somewhere (you just don't have to be conscious of them).