Genetically, a Somalian man, a German man and a Japanese woman have more in common than two sub-Saharan Africans who live 100 miles apart. But in the U.S., the

Genetically, a Somalian man, a German man and a Japanese woman have more in common than two sub-Saharan Africans who live 100 miles apart. But in the U.S., the Somalian is 'black.' This is what the article is pointing out. When Americans use the term 'black' or 'white', they are using big bucket terms to label cultural and ethnic groups that share physical similarities. The problem is that using skin color as the basis for this is absurd, and prevents us from solving the "Race problem." Why? Because America doesn't have a "Race problem." America has a culture problem. Some of the sub-cultures in America are doing terrible, but when we try to solve the problem in a blanket way by helping a "race" we end up blaming the wrong things and solving the wrong problems. Nigerian-American immigrants do phenomenally well, and their second generations rank at levels matching or exceeding Asian American immigrant families. Culturally they are completely separate from descendants of slaves stolen from Africa in the 17th century. But because they are lumped together as "black", we try to solve the issue at that obtuse level.