Real distinction is blood type
I concur with the May 15 letter, “Solve race issue by paying it less heed.” Long ago, British anthropologist Ashley Montagu edited a book, “The Concept of Race.”
A compilation of essays by various scientists, it proved the concept of race to be fallacious. While there are many pigmentations and genetic expressions of humankind, there is but one “race.”
It is high time we stopped artificially, erroneously and divisively defining ourselves by a false concept. The book made the point that, if we are absolutely determined to divide ourselves on the basis of a physical characteristic, the only criterion that could be defended scientifically is division by blood t ype.
I’m a Type A. If you’re a Type B or an O or an AB, would we be compatible? housed, the right to vote, etc.
We need to vote out the judges (federal and state) who allow these prisoners to file their lawsuits and clog the courts with absurd requests.
The U.S. Justice Department also needs to be completely overhauled. Bush learned nothing from the Iraq War debacle,” discusses his answer to “Would you, knowing what we know now, have authorized the 2003 invasion of Iraq?”
She implies that the only correct answer is “no,” because no weapons of mass destruction were found.
She omits any reference to the United Nations resolutions that were ignored by Iraq, or the probabilit y that WMDs were shipped out to a third part y (or parties).
The more pertinent question for the current commander in chief, and those who aspire to that position, is this: Would you, knowing what we know now, have withdrawn all U.S. troops from Iraq in 2012?