By Selwyn Duke

There is this idea among many that we can get past apparent
differences by concluding they don’t exist. This is reflected in the now
common belief that racial distinctions are mere “social constructs.” In
non-egghead terms, that means race is actually imaginary.

This idea isn’t just espoused by liberals, but has become so
mainstream that even many conservatives echo it. For example, just
yesterday American Thinker writer Gregory Oatis asked if we could dispense with this “‘race’ nonsense, once and for all” and then explained,
“Categorizing humanity by ‘race’ as has been happening for all these
centuries is simply not a scientifically valid proposition. There is
just one race of people on this planet, the human race.” Ah, yes, tell
that to Barack Obama’s old pastor.

Now, the goal here isn’t to impugn Mr. Oatis; he seems like a very
nice fellow with pure motives. And like so many others, he no doubt
recognizes that racial and ethnic hatred has cost many millions of lives
and seeks to eliminate it. But is the solution to try to eliminate our
conception of race itself, which Mr. Oatis calls “the single most
overrated scientific myth” but which to common people is just common
sense?

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