The Allusion of Race

My friend Ariah had a link on his blog to a PBS series he has been watching called "The Allusion of Race." Only since 1954 could anyone who wasn't "white" apply for American citizenship. The crazier thing is that the surpeme court always changed the definition of "white" so it fit whatever they wanted it to, depending on the civil rights case they were hearing. Our current ideas about race are actually pretty new, in relationship to the history of humans.