Black, white, orange, green or purple? What's the difference? The way I see it, if everyone in the world was color blind, we wouldn't know whether other people have different colors or not. “If we stop obsessing about race, people might actually become color blind” (Blumner). Almost every battle in our history began over some sort of racial controversy. From 1800 to today these battles have occurred, most notably that of September 11, 2001. Now to the question at hand: Should racial classification for statistical data be used in State College? I feel like it can be used. I'm not saying that I think it absolutely should be used because it needs to be done on a professional level and for the right statistics. When different businesses, schools, or even communities use racial classification for statistics they go too far and get to the point where problems arise. The data should be very limited and only allow people to know the number of different races and no further. During my sophomore year of high school I became very good friends with an African American who was in many of my classes. Getting closer so soon I discovered that we both had many qualities in common. I think that's when I really learned how color doesn't matter. “Genetically, people are 99.9% similar” (Blumner). That 0.1% that we are not alike is the color of our skin. This is my personal opinion. In today's world it is impossible to store...