The only race is the one you run :-)

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> Please explain how humans created the differences in the races? I am not
> challenging you, just curious where you are coming from. 

I believe what was being conveyed is that our tendency to seperate
people into groups depending on physical characteristics such as skin
color is an arbitrary classification.

Because of my rather varied ethnic heritage (Japanese, Italian, and
Native American, some northern European), I have olive skin; coarse,
dark hair; and brown eyes.  My wife, with her Scandinavian ancestry, is
shark-bait-white with blond hair and blue eyes.  Our son is a handsome
little fella with brown hair, blue-gray eyes, and fair skin.

I don't feel like I've missed out or anything because I don't have a
totally homogenous cultural background.  There are some
well-intentioned individuals who feel I might somehow be "missing"
something because I don't identify with my Japanese ancestors or my
Choctaw heritage or whatever: I just roll my eyes at those kind of
allegations since it's not something I've experienced, nor was it the
experience of several other Americans I've been friends with over the
years.  I'm just confused on those forms that ask me what race I am,
since I can check four of the seven boxes available :-)

Richard "one-man melting pot" Masoner