There will always be racism

My opponent is defining a possible future race solely by skin color, that will arrive I assume by breeding of the current races. Thus, we will all have the same skin color, and no longer be racist towards each other, false. Traditional anthropological studies show there are actually 5 races, Mongoloid (Asian and American Indian), Caucasoid (European), Australoid (Australian and oceanic), Negroid (east African black), Capoid (south African black), the remaining peoples are mixtures or "mongrels" of the different races above (1). There are people currently within these races that have the same "beautifull mixing pot of dark skinned mahogony people" as the other races and still racism exist. All races share 99.99+% of the same genetic materials and still we have racism (1.). If you are ever privileged to go to Dominican Republic you will observe natives with skin darker or the same as African Americans you can found anywhere. However, despite our skin color being of the same pigmentation, that does not mean we are the same race, for the DR native is still Hispanic and the other still Black. As for the bunkering down of the white race, and interracial couples being very popular, that does not mean that an entire race will go extinct. Since there will always be Caucasians that choose to mate with only Caucasian there will always be a white race. Being a minority race does not lead to extinction, do remember that Jews were a minority race in Germany, and even after 6 million were killed during the Holocaust, there are 13.3 million Jews in the world today (3.). Interracial mating has been present since the days of slavery,1664 Maryland banned interracial marriage due to questions over whether the offspring of a black slave and a white person would be considered a free person or property (2.) Slavery is considered the classic expression of American racism, and during that time there was still inter racial mating. To conclude, inter racial relationships, and the same pigmentation does not equal the end of racism, or the evolution of one race. Finally my opponents argues "there is literally no tolerance for racism today'. There is no tolerance for child molestation today, however it has raised 350% since 1980 (4.). There is no tolerance for drunk driving, however according to a new national survey, from 1997 to 1999 it increased 37 percent to 159 million and that rate continued in 2002 (5.). I could continue, but the point is that though there may be an intolerance for something is not evidence that it doesn't occur. "So the only issue is teaching all the Texans that Jesus loves blacks too...that's not going to be too hard.", my opponents states. So are you implying that all the racist that are left, reside in Texas? There are racist people all over the world, and in all walks of life. We have racially driven incidents that occur everyday, the Sean Bell killing (6), Amadou Diallo murder (7), Trayvon Martin slaying (8), Rodney King beating (9) etc. Hate crimes against Hispanics were up 10% to 576 incidents in 2006 (10). Though my opponent thinks there is no tolerance for racism, it is clear by these examples as well as the others that do not make the news that it exist. Again, I argued that education is a double edge sword and has been used to fuel racism, clearly teaching Texans or anyone else that racism is atrocious is not that easy. 1. http://sg.answers.yahoo.com... 2. http://www.enotes.com... 3. http://www.simpletoremember.com... 4. http://www.circleofmoms.com... 5. http://alcoholism.about.com... 6. http://topics.nytimes.com... 7. http://topics.nytimes.com... 8. http://news.yahoo.com... 9. http://www.cnn.com... 10. http://www.usatoday.com...