№ 664: Hopeless?

EVERYWHERE (August 19)

Can we — PLEASE! — stop speaking of “race”?
Really, there is NO. SUCH. THING!

Skin color, ethnicity, language, religion.
Nationality! Culture! Those distinctions
that do have some meaning.
Albeit slight, despite what you're feeling.

But were we to recognize “race” has no place,
that still would not heal our schisms.

Plus we would need to invent a new word
to replace what today's called “racism”.

Crick here