Interesting how this comes on the wake of the 2002 admission that over 75% of all African Americans have multiracial ancestries, literally shifting the balance to the newly developed "multiracial" category which then becomes a useless indicator of ancestry! Tiger Woods started it with his declaration of being 'Cablinasian' back in 1997 and a Republican, Tom Petri, ran with it and introduced legislation backing the multiracial check-off for the 2000 census. He called it the "Tiger Woods bill". Taken a step further, with multiracial people in mind, the census bureau decided to amend its categories for 2000 to include the option of ticking two or more races and specifying which ones. Clearly a potential multi racial nightmare! In 1998, the American Anthropological Association declared, "Evidence from the analysis of genetics (eg DNA) indicates that most physical variation, about 94%, lies within so-called racial groups. Conventional geographic 'racial' groupings differ from one another only in about 6% of their genes. This means there is greater genetic variation within 'racial' groups than between them." In short, we really are more alike than we are unalike making race an arbitrary fiction and "race-mixing" is a conceptual absurdity.
Ironically the red devil riding the bull ( AA) in the pic below shows the 7.2% of self proclaimed " American" ethnicity in 2000 and surprise, surprise, they are all YT and live in the south! According to the USA census, "Ethnic "Americans" share most of their ancestry with modern-day British, German, Irish, French, Dutch, Swedish and Finnish" Not us.... So they will still have a way to discriminate even if race is annihilated as a category.
Ironically the red devil riding the bull ( AA) in the pic below shows the 7.2% of self proclaimed " American" ethnicity in 2000 and surprise, surprise, they are all YT and live in the south! According to the USA census, "Ethnic "Americans" share most of their ancestry with modern-day British, German, Irish, French, Dutch, Swedish and Finnish" Not us.... So they will still have a way to discriminate even if race is annihilated as a category.