Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Kids These Days

A NextGen explains that she and peers aren't race-blind.
"Race is a socially created concept, and since its inception it has been a socially fed nuisance, to say the least. It sprang to life and run amok,"
Saaret E. Yoseph writes at The Root. She fusses at her elders for making them (well, everyone) check little boxes to indicate race. Yoseph notes, "There are more interracial couples, more biracial children and an expansion of the definitions of ethnicity, but all of that has done little to help us understand each other better." Read more, here.

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