Iceman
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Of course terms are subjective, we can call green blue and and blue green. It doesn't mean these colors don't occupy a different place on the color spectrum. Also, having turquoise doesn't make blue or green any less real.My point is quite obvious and should have been easily discerned if you have been reading my posts, but if the post your quoted was the only one you read, you may not get it.
The point is that the term 'race' is simply a word, a word used to convey a very subjective idea. That the cops and others use it does not mean it is an accurate term to use nor an accurate way of thinking. Language often affects the way we see reality. Thinking in racial terms is determined by language, not by reality. The United Nations has decided not to use the term because it is not effective, given that people all over the world who are considered to be one race or another are not only one race, but are mixed race, if we are trying to continue to cling to the idea of 'race.' For example, which race is Obama? Which race are my nephews whose mother is black and father white? It is a subjective term that does not correlate with reality. The fact it is being used by authorities here and there does not mean that one race or another are a fact but more of a convenience, a convenience that skews reality. My nephews would be categorized as 'black' and yet they are one half white. ~
Do you get it yet?
The same goes for race. We can call a Caucasian a Negroid, and a Negroid a Caucasian, but it doesn't mean that genetic and phenotypical differences don't exist between the groups. Just because someone can be a hybrid of Negroid and Caucasian, doesn't make Negroid and Caucasian any less real.
Race is real, whether you want to admit it or not. I think you recognize it is real. However, you only use race to further political purposes(like immigration, affirmative action, government enforced integration etc).
No I don't recognize it because it isn't reality. Humans have been moving, migrating if you will, all over the planet since the inception of mankind. There is no one pure race other than the human race. Accept it.
Wait a second, is race not real, or is no human of "pure" racial stock? If it's the latter, than you are acknowledging the reality of race.