[acjohnson55]

I have mixed feelings about this article. First of all, I strongly support the dissemination of the knowledge that race has little-to-no basis in biology. I think every American should be taught this. I'm a black person, and I wasn't taught this until take a college course that specifically concerned race and ethnicity.

But I disagree that we'd all be better off if we just forgot about race altogether. Despite the lack of basis in biology, race is actually a real thing, even if it is merely a social construct. Race is real in both self-identification and in how we perceive and treat others.

Culture alone does not explain everything. There is no unified culture shared by all Americans who self-identify as black. And yet, there are aspects of the experience of living in this country that are quite common to black people. This is because the racial identity other people ascribe to you also affects your life.