You have just stated Hitler's racial theory, almost word for word.

Hitler's racial theory consisted of two points, both of which are false, and both of which are at the root of most of the conflicts, wars, and violence in human history.

1. DIFFERENT RACES: Hitler claimed each human can be classified as fitting neatly into one of several DIFFERENT distinct races. In fact, there is ONLY one race of human beings. We all belong to precisely the same race. That only race of humans originated in Africa, and we humans migrated from Africa to Europe, Asian, and then to the Americas, beginning around 100,000 years ago (mere "minutes" ago in terms of the "hours" that the primate family has been on Earth). We are all "Africans", and today, we Africans have populated the entire planet.

2. SPECIFIC PHYSICAL, MENTAL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PREDISPOSITONS: Hitler's primarily goal: after first creating the lie that "distinct" sub-races of humans exist, Hitler sought to convince his gullible followers that these imaginary races have "specific physical, mental, and psychological predispositions".

If a person believes there are more than one race of humans, that the same person is likely to think that it is possible to "rank" those races as "superior" or "inferior" regarding "specific physical, mental, and psychological predispositions".

The concept that the human race can be divided into "sub-races" was invented by Johann Blumenbach in 1795. He invented the word "Caucasian" to describe pale skinned Europeans, and then claimed that his imaginary "Caucasian" race was superior to the darker skinned people of the world. His theories were used to justify slavery, and to justify the oppression of the people of Africa and Asian by Europeans.

Blumenbach used physical characteristics to invent several races, primarily skin color. However, Blumenbach was not a well traveled man. Had he traveled, he would have learned that his imaginary "race" of dark skinned people included not only many Africans, but would also include hundreds of millions of people in South India, Bangladish, and South East Asia. If brown skinned people are a race, than many Africans, Mexicans, Japanese, and people from Northern India, Egypt, and Southern Italy would be part of the "brown" race.

How about using "genetic" differences? If the gene for resistance to Malaria defines a "race", then Greeks, Yemenites, Thais and Dinkas would be part of the "Malaria resistent" race. If the "gene" for being more than seven feet tall is a race, then Yao Ming and Hakeem Olajuwon belong in the same race. We could invent the "big nose" race, the "small feet" race, the "freckles" race", or any other "race" imaginable, using any of the many variations in human appearance.

Any randomly chosen human being shares about 99.8% of his genes with any other particular randomly chosen human. If a comparison is done between the TOTAL gene makeup of two randomly selected African-Americans, the genetic difference between the two African-Americans is likely to be GREATER than the difference between a randomly selected African-American and a randomly selected Anglo-American.

That means that Malcom X may have been closer in his total gene profile to George Wallace than he was to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And, it also means that when an African-American gets an organ donation from someone outside his immediate family, the closest genetic match will probably be an "Anglo", not an African-American.

Nothing good can ever result from pre-judging any person's abilities based on ethnic stereotypes, racial stereotyping or pseudo-scientific "genetic theory". Only the people who have been the victim of "genetic" and "racial" stereotyping, can fully understand the pain inflicted by treating someone differently based on their skin color.

When I was in fourth grade, the school board thought I was African-American, and assigned me to what they called a "Coloureds Only" school. In 5th grade, the school board decided I was white, and assigned me to what they called a "Whites Only" school. A German/Irish/Scottish/African-American/Cherokee blend was beyond the school board's simple-minded efforts to define, and then separate, races of children.

Every human being is unique. Each has a combination of skin tone, eye color, hair color hair texture, bone density, and height that adds up to someone different than their father, brother, cousin, or neighbor. Likewise, their combination of talent and interest for mathematics, art, music, literature, engineering, or leadership adds up to someone a bit different than anyone else.

What is the value of taking one unique individual, labeling him as the member of a "race", and then predicting what he will accomplish based on stereotypes about his alleged race? If you want to know what any person can achieve, simply give him a level playing field, and then watch him succeed or fail as a person, and not as the representative of his assigned racial classification
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