re: If the Federal Government Were to Discontinue the Collection of Data by Race

It's absolutely necessary if we are ever going to get to a place where people are just people, not white people, black people, Hispanic people, etc/

That's not saying that different people are different, or that we should recognize/respect those differences, but the differences are not simply about the color of our skin, or our heritage, or our intelligence, or our socia class, or gender, or sexual orientation, or any other single factor.

Furthermore, race classifications have gotten so blurred that they are practically meaningless, that is unless you are a race hustler trying to take advantage of the notion of victim class.