[ExI] very informative

[F. C. Moulton]

It is unclear if people think they are being cute by saying "one race" 
without giving their context when clearly there are at least two 
different usages of the term.

There is a usage as in the collective aggregation of all humans into 
what is often called the "human race" usually meaning the same as 
"humanity" or similar terms.

There is the second usage which reflects a common usage classifying 
people based on skin color and other physical characteristics and 
sometimes ancestry. Now it is common knowledge that these classification 
schemes are social constructs yet that does not make the lived 
experience of the person who was denied a job or an apartment due to 
skin color any less real.  Exactly what word or words would be useful in 
discussing the reason why someone is denied a job or an apartment due to 
the color of their skin?  If you do not want to use the word "race" then 
what word is there to use that has explanatory power?  The word "bigot" 
does not get the discussion going very far because it just raises the 
"bigoted for what reason" question.


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F. C. Moulton
moulton at moulton.com