"Race" or "ethnicity"

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 04:04 PM 6/28/01 -0700, Kevin Dean quoted:
>Scientists Debate Role of Race 
>The Associated Press, Thu 28 Jun 2001 
>
>"http://www.worldscientist.com/?action=display&article=7981984&template=sci
ence/stories.txt&index=recent"
>``The important issues between blacks and whites
>really have to do with equality of opportunity and
>access to health care and earning potential,'' says
>biological anthropologist Jonathan Marks, an
>association member. ``To talk about them as racial
>issues makes it sound like biology is the root of the
>problem.'' 

Exactly.  The concept of race is but an ex-post facto rationalization of
existing inequalities that fits the individualistic ideology.  This
rationalization explains observed patterns of behavior by imputing
individual characterisitics claimed to be responsible for that behavior,
such as IQ scores.  Pairing those imputed imaginary characteristics with
superficial observable ones (such as skin color) produces the concept of
race.  

wojtek