Some things don't bear discussion

Joe Bob Briggs writes about race in America... and just how absurd the concept is.

He makes sense, right?  We should lose the stupid labels, and just (at least for official purposes*) all be the same race, i.e., American?

But, the can of worms having been opened... I made the mistake of looking briefly at the comments.

Oh, the comments.  Gah!

In that particular forum, racists of the white-supremacist stripe come to the fore.  In other fora, you can just bet Joe Bob would have been shouted down (or worse) by the Progressive / culturally-sensitive / racially-awakened sort of racists.

* For unofficial purposes (and also for BOLOs and such), race has some - limited! - utility as shorthand for a collection of physical attributes when trying to describe someone's appearance.  Though using "Asian" for both Han and Dravidian (and so many other ethnic groups) loses even that point.  Describing someone as "looks like a tea-drinker, but not English" is not very informative, is it?