As a college sociology professor in California, I spent an entire month on the subject of "race": the history of the term and it's consequences for Ameria.

How many know that the concept of a " Caucasian Race" began around 1800, with Johann Blumenbach, a German scientist. He based his myth on "craniology", or the classification of people based on skull characteristics, which remains a mythical basis within our culture to this day, long after science has abandoned the notion of race as a meaningful sorting mechanism...we are one species, and we're tightly-woven genetically, and comparitively young as well.

If that is the true picture of "race", why is our government teaching kids that same garbage, and ignoring science? Why are taxpayers paying for groups who claim to be denied equality....perhaps because we are the country who continues to go along with the myth...it would be too costly to abandon this approach...or would it? Even Obama has joked about his"mixed" genetic history, so perhaps there is hope.

One of the questions I would ask in my class was this: "Is there a Black person here?".....a White person?"....both are terms that are, fundamentally abstractions....totally black skin is as rare as totally white skin...most people are mutts in this regard...humble thyself!