The prevailing myth in our culture is that Race is real, but it doesn't matter.
The REALITY is that Race is NOT real, but it DOES matter.
I found this Ted Talk fascinating and informative, especially considering my very mult-ethnic family - two of my kids, all of my grand and g-grandkids are mixed race.
There was a comic novelist in the 1950's named Max Shulman, and in one of his books, "Anyone, got a match?" was one of the best descriptive lines about race. "There is only one race, the human race." which I thought summed up nicely how questions of race should be answered.
Note: In another Max Shulman book, "The Many Loves of Doby Gillis", I got my first exposure to "logical fallacies" and they were explained in a very comic an understandable way. There was later a TV show, Doby Gillis, based on the book, which is actually a collection of short stories with the main character of Doby Gillis. Anyway, the point of this mote was that nowhere in high school or college was I taught "logical fallacies", which I had to learn form a 1950's comic novel, which really points out in part how the dumbing down of America happened.