Question about "PC" ethnic terms...

[Ray Smoodiver]

What really fucks me off is that, regardless of colour, we're the most gentically inbred species on the planet, and yet, because of colour, everyone decides to segregate - blacks as much as whites (to use a thread based analogy).

You look at even our ancestors up in the trees and they show more differing characteristics than we do.

Every single blue eyed person on the planet came from ONE (1) single person. Uh, what? And we can still be rascist. We're all the same race!

[speedhop]

No one is being assimilated or forced into dismantling their heritage...I proposed that each person in America call themselves an American. That type of assimilation as a unit should bring people together as a country instead of publicly using their race as a scapegoat or crutch to succeed...or even better yet using it to segregate themselves. Blacks and whites and yellows and reds and so on.

Race should not be an issue. When I fill out an application, I should never be asked race...why does it matter? Why does my race have any bearing on education, jobs, etc? That is my point...not some communist assimilation scheme.

[EN318isPDX]