Black, white, orange, green or purple? What's the difference? In my opinion, if everyone in the world was colorblind, we wouldn't know whether other people were different colors or not. “If we stop obsessing about race, people might become colorblind” (Blumner). Almost every battle in our history has been started because of some sort of racial controversy. From the 1800s to the present, these battles have been fought, particularly that of September 11, 2001. Now let's move on to the question at hand: Should racial classification for statistical data be used in State College? I think this can be used. I'm not saying that I think this should absolutely be used because it needs to be done at a professional level and to get decent stats. When different companies, schools, or even communities use racial classification for their statistics, they go too far and get to the point where problems arise. The data should be very limited and just allow people to know the number of different breeds and no more. During my sophomore year of high school, I became very close friends with an African American man who attended several of my classes. By getting so close, I quickly realized that we both had many qualities in common. I think that's when I really learned how color doesn't matter. “Genetically, people are 99.9% alike” (Blumner). This 0.1% that differentiates us is the color of our skin. This is my personal opinion. In our world today, it is impossible to...