The problem, too, is that we still have to throw around percentages. Why do people have to be "black" or "Republican" or "heterosexual"? The prejudice is what gives meaning to statistics anyway. If there were, for instance, no discrimination in employee/spouse health benefits from corporate employers, then everyone who qualified would simply qualify based on their work history or whatever the determining factor is, rather than their declaration of being "this" or "that".

To me, (IMHO, for example) a man is a man with black skin, not a "black man". A "black man" is a man that has to fill and/or refuse to fill racial and ethnic and social categories or stereotypes, because it means something to someone that he be classified as such.

I long to see, and will work to see, a day when a person is just a person and we are valued for what we do, not what random genetic mutations combined with historical stupidity qualifies us to be called.

Take it from Dr. King... "not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character". Every other classification must fall away the way that one has to a degree so far.