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Old Mar 22, 2010, 04:15 AM
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A lot of intellent exchanges here and that is good.

Racism will always be with us, until we get rid of the idea of Race itself. Until people are purely seen only as they are as individuals and not part of this "group" or that "group" and not "black", "White" Hispanic" etc...

On the genetic yardstick, the physical characteristics that identify "Race" are in fact infintesimal. We all carry 99.5% of the exact same DNA sequences.

Truth is "Race" is purely a fictional thing. Race has no scientific validity and is not recognized by any hard science.

That being said we as a society are lonnngggg ways from this, as "we" are still driven by our emotions, rather than rational, objective thought. I am not sure if we as a species will survive that long.