On this scale, the Iranians would be 9 times more distant genetically from the English than the Danes, and the Japanese 59 times. So we should certainly forgive the charade he keeps up to fool the New York Times . But we definitely don't have to agree. A race is simply a lineage. A racial group is simply an extremely extended family that inbreeds to some extent.
Race is a fundamental aspect of the human condition.
Burying our heads in the sand and refusing to think about this fundamental aspect only makes the inevitable problems caused by race harder to overcome.