Letters to the Editor
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Race should die
Skin color has about as much 'racial' information as hair color. Blonds tend to have some Northern European ancestry. Redheads tend have some Irish or Scots ancestry. 'Blacks' generally have some African ancestry.
I don't feel any racial affiliation with groups that share my skin color. I don't see that I am responsible for the attitudes of skinheads or fundamentalists pushing their creation agenda on our schools. I fight those values. Why should people who share a skin color with misogynistic rap stars or ghetto gang bangers act differently? Maybe they're judging by the content of character not the color of skin?
The way to a race-free society is not to classify everyone and decide if your skin is darker than a certain shade or your ancestry is least X% 'black,' you're 'black.' The way forward is treat people as if skin color is as unimportant as hair color. Maybe in the current generation it will be a polite fiction, but in the next generation the attitude might be more real.
Already we have come light years from the segregation of the 50s. Attitudes have changed dramatically.