We’re all the same race

The Supreme Court of the United States has recently declared that higher education facilities — Harvard, Yale, USC — cannot use race in determining whether or not an applicant will be admitted.

Race is a slippery word and is perhaps overused. Strictly speaking, each and every one of us residing on planet Earth are of the same race: Homo Sapiens. Under the skin and including our different ethnic backgrounds we are all the same, we have the same plumbing and it is generally interchangeable. We are also able to interchangeably reproduce; another requirement to be of the same race.

Other interests amplify our cosmetic differences to separate us into tribes because a unified people are harder to control. Hopefully we can be one American people again; not tribes of hyphenated (Anglo-American, etc.) Americans.

Thomas Hurd

Thaynes Canyon