We have advanced in so many ways - smart phones, satellite dishes, high speed internet, "smart" cars but we still don't seem to have smart forms. We still have not progressed beyond RACE. Why is that? What is it that hangs us up on race? Why are we so involved in other people's lives - their heritage, religion, sexual preferences, etc? When will we truly evolve?

In regards to the issue of race, why should it matter when I'm taking surveys, filling in disability forms, filling in any sort of application for anything what race I am? Do they also need to know if I tan easily? Do I burn at the beach? Tan lines? Do I have freckles? It shouldn't matter.

I was lucky to be raised by parents that didn't see the color of a person's skin but instead saw the person beneath. Their character. What mattered was how that person treated them and their family. My father was a manager. He hired based on qualifications of the person (before there were quotas imposed by the government) he could hire the most qualified person and never even paid attention to the race field at all.

Why don't we just get rid of that altogether? Does it really matter anyway when it comes to being able to get hired, disability, insurance, play sports, enroll in college? It's time for this question of Race to be deleted from all forms as unnecessary (with the exception of doctor's as some medical conditions are inherited by only certain ethnic backgrounds).

Your race shouldn't matter, agreed. I don't see color either. I see a human being, brother and sister.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Martin Luther King

It's unfortunate that politicians put people in groups and judge them by their group and not as a human being that makes a country of people. Our government uses forms like from the Consensus Bureau to put people in a collective of groups to determine voting districts and what ever else they do with that data.

The day, people stop judging other people by their color, is the day, there will be peace, at least in that one cultural area.