Race: Holidays and the Census

Super storm – From Manhattan to Mahaica

“Happy Election Day”

Settle down and pay attention class. Here follows Mr Fenty’s notes on race. As usual, they are not invested with much profundity or analytical, historical narrative. The notes, occasioned by another columnist’s findings and a visit by a census taker, are intended to provoke your consideration, discussion, even conclusions.

It is more or less agreed that the human race had its beginnings in Africa. That made us all Africans, until the earliest ancestors journeyed across land and great waters to have the climates and environment(s) fashion different physical features. Scientists even defined three early categories of ethnic mankind –