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Intelligent design may be absurd as a concept, but its political reality has a good chance of having your kids learning that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to work.
Likewise, race. I don't think an adult person exists who doesn't realize--by virtue of the impossible to quantify purity of their own race--that race is an illusion. However, racial classification has worked as a convenient political tool for centuries. It has worked so well, that there is no more rigid and defined societal marker than race, despite the fact that it is a completely baseless concept.
And those seeking to extricate themselves from its more nefarious effects, would do better acknowledging its political reality, rather than pleading for the world to don color-blind sunglasses.
