good vs. bad in today's reading

The article “Race and Ethnicity” by Kenneth W. Warren dovetails and compliments that article which comes after it, “Migrations, Diasporas and Borders” by Susan Stanford Friedman. The first article is replete with examples of racism but also brings up the topic of race itself. An important question here is, “Might we not want to have race if racism didn’t come along with it?” I personally think the races are fine the way they are, and it’s fine if we mix them up, and I am truly sorry that the human race ever started thinking in racial terms to begin with. Another very important question brought up in “Race and Ethnicity” is the question of “whether or not the forms of collective identify compatible with race can be understood as necessary to our humanity” (249). It is most definitely necessary to our humanity! If we were all the same color and the same size and had the same culture, think of how boring life would be. I don’t want to live in a world where there are no different cultures. I enjoy the reading of different cultures in books, the different cultural foods; different cultural music… all of it is important to me and makes my life richer.
Meanwhile, we have the problems of people having to leave their native land where their own personal culture is at the forefront, and come to a new land where there are other predominant cultures. This leads me back to my original statement about race… the races are a good thing and should not be melted into one. The writing and the culture and the heritage of people who have to emigrate or immigrate for whatever reasons are important to all of us as humankind. We will lose all of the richness and the glory of what it is to be human if we in any way disparage or undervalue that which peoples from other lands bring when they leave their homeland and relocate.