How Obama blew it

Michael Meyers: Obama blew it

Ref: Los Angeles Times, March 20, 2008

“We can’t be united as a nation if we continue to think racially and give credence to racial experiences and differences based on ethnicity, past victim status and stereotypical categories.”

Genetic diversity revisited

US NIH: Genetic Structure, Self-Identified Race/Ethnicity, and Confounding in Case-Control Association Studies

Ref: Pub Med Central Feb 2005

“On the other hand, several studies have shown that individuals tend to cluster genetically with others of the same ancestral geographic origins (Mountain and Cavalli-Sforza 1997; Stephens et al. 2001; Bamshad et al. 2003). Prior studies have generally been performed on a relatively small number of individuals and/or markers. A recent study (Rosenberg et al. 2002) examined 377 autosomal microsatellite markers in 1,056 individuals from a global sample of 52 populations and found significant evidence of genetic clustering, largely along geographic (continental) lines.”