&gt; Not talking or thinking about race ... does absolutely nothing to help.<p>But in the better future world we&#x27;re trying to create where there is much less discrimination on the basis of ethnicity or sex or other body attributes, isn&#x27;t that exactly what we&#x27;d be doing, <i>not talking or thinking about race</i> because it just isn&#x27;t important to us? Isn&#x27;t <i>not talking or thinking about race</i> exactly what we <i>should</i> be doing, as much as possible?