Sometimes thinking in terms of race is useful, oftentimes not. Often in US media EVERYTHING is portrayed as having huge racial component to it, when reality is the racial component may be there in a very small amount or even non-existent. For instance I recently heard a story very similar to another story I had heard in past. In story A one participant is white, one minority. In story B both participants are same ethnic minority group. Well story A is in the national news and there is an attempt to blame the white person for being racist because of what has happened. The tone in the article was highly critical of "racist" white person even though no evidence is ever presented of white person being racist in the incident. In story B, which is very similar, this idea is never brought up because ppl are same race/ethnic. Just because there are two different races involved in some level of conflict doesn't mean race has anything to do with it. In so many US news media stories there are frequent rush to oversimplify problems and blame it all on race. It's a bountiful source of misrepresentation and untruths. Now do some have racial component? Yes. But I see a huge amount in media where it could just be completely not racial at all, but falsely attributed or over emphasis on race. The inherent problem with this is that it furthers racial division, probably makes huge numbers of minorities feel targeted and that they are living in a completely racist society, and also fails to address the more complex issues that are truly at play in the situation which is itself a disservice to the affected ppl.

That horrible nonsense has gone on for far too long. It's high time we accept that socio-economic-cultural factors divide people.

I don’t know how to get around the issue of race while it is still being used to determine who gets a “Just drive safely ma’am” and who gets arrested.

And it is far, far less likely that a 'white skinned' Ancestor of the Species Homo sapien EVER trod the soils of Africa or the trails from Africa to the rest of World.

It seems that we “homo sapiens”...cannot get past the visual difference of colour, because elements on either side of the black/white coin, find it easy to exploit our fears of those who do not mirror our own outward appearance. Under the skin, as you point out, we are all exactly the same species of animal.