Official Statement on "Race"

“Official Statement on “Race”” is an article prepared and released by the American Anthropological Association (AAA).  This article was a very good addition to a previous reading, “Mixed Blood”, which more or less outlined the fact that race is a common misconception among most people.  In the AAA’s article, they clearly and without a doubt set things straight, especially by stating, “the concept of ‘race’ has no validity as a biological category in the human species.”  This would seem to put the issue to rest once and for all, and the AAA did a great job of elaborating on this delicate topic.  The AAA talks about where this misconception originated, when the white Europeans felt the need to categorize “superior” peoples as opposed to “inferior” peoples, and that is where we the human race began confusing biological differences with the idea of alleged “racial” differences.  In order to move forward and get past the “racial” issues that have plagued our species for centuries, we need to first and foremost realize and accept that “race” does not exist in the context in which we use it at all.