No such thing as race...

It's just a sub classification of humans. It's the word that's the problem, but I'm pretty sure people all mean the same thing and understand each other. It's normally about groups of people with similar physical characteristics. "Jewish" CAN be a race, but also can be a religion, and one has to know a person to know if the term "race" is applicable.

Joe, I don't think it's "a tool of bigotry". Bigots can use any difference to separate people from them. Race classification, by itself, is harmless.