Well, first, this talk is mostly about gender, which is completely different than race.<p>If you think about what race really is, it&#x27;s not what it seems (unlike sex and gender, which have not only a more consistent historical difference, and a stronger biological one as well). Race is more cultural than anything else.<p>Sure it starts with physical traits, but whether or not you&#x27;re black, white, or asian, does not depend on your biology. You&#x27;re actually not born that way (even if the labels make it seem like you belong to a certain geographical location, they&#x27;re just labels), and the proof is people who are of mixed race.<p>People who are half black, half white, from my experience, they choose which culture to belong to, and we all confuse it with their race. Obama is a great example. People saying he&#x27;s our &quot;black&quot; president. What? What does that really mean? He&#x27;s clearly half white, half black, so why is he a &quot;black president&quot;? That statement is inaccurate, and people should always say, he&#x27;s our first &quot;half black, half white, president&quot;. So what&#x27;s going on there? People just categorize themselves, and it&#x27;s just a matter of the stories and memes they adopt from a set of some kind of cultural background. In other words, it&#x27;s all made up. Half-white, half-black people often choose to be black because they think black is cool. They adopt that culture and roll with it.<p>So in short, if people keep categorizing themselves, there&#x27;s no way out of this. Categorization will lead to division among people. &quot;Black&quot; people are just Americans with a different <i>sub-culture</i>, that&#x27;s it. &quot;Black&quot; people are just as racially diverse among themselves as they are in comparison to &quot;white&quot; people. There are &quot;blacks&quot; from east Africa, west Africa, and Saudi Arabia. Every &quot;black&quot; group is culturally and ethnically different. Why group them?<p>I&#x27;ll recognize there is a history to be dealt with here. And that is that we&#x27;ve inherited inequality that is for the most part based on skin color (because that&#x27;s how our ignorant ancestors decided to categorize people), so that division of inequality still lingers. But there is a case for both repairing the damage, while at the same time getting everyone to forget there is any kind of racial categorization. There is only sub-cultures within American culture.