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11/24/2007: "Races are genetically different"

Genetic information is slipping out of the laboratory and into everyday life, carrying with it the inescapable message that people of different races have different DNA. Ancestry tests tell customers what percentage of their genes are from Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. The heart-disease drug BiDil is marketed exclusively to African-Americans, who seem genetically predisposed to respond to it. Jews are offered prenatal tests for genetic disorders rarely found in other ethnic groups.

The notion that race is more than skin deep, they fear, could undermine principles of equal treatment and opportunity that have relied on the presumption that we are all fundamentally equal.

[ We can treat each other well without "equality," which is not accurate and creates more resentment than it ends. It's just multiculturalism that's about to disappear. ]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/us/11dna.html?ex=1352437200&en=45c74d46e3edb6c7&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss