The use of skin color, as opposed to other criteria, is historical accident and entirely arbitrary.
Citation needed. I don't think just a bland assertion will suffice :-)
We're comparing two groups of people in a country where every ethnic group that comes over gets dumped into a blender set on "chunky".
Maybe you are. I'm not. The world is bigger and more interesting than the United States. In particular, Americans are notorious for looking at the multicoloured world of races in a just-black-and-white way. I'm not arguing that the racial classification the US government uses makes any kind of sense :-/
You're also overestimating the blender rpm.
This sort of thinking seems bad:
This sort of thinking seems socially frowned upon, but accurate:
Similar points could be made by replacing a/b with [group of people]. I think it's terrible to say something like:
But to me, it doesn't seem wrong to say something like:
Credit and accountability seem like good things to me, and so I want to live in a world where people/groups receive credit for good qualities, and are held accountable for bad qualities.
I'm not sure though. I could see that there are unintended consequences of such a world. For example, such "score keeping" could lead to contentiousness. And perhaps it's just something that we as a society (to generalize) can't handle, and thus shouldn't keep score.