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Words to live byRecent revelations that all people are more than 99.9 percent genetically identical has proved that race has almost no biological validity. Yet geneticists' claims that race is a phony construct have not rung true to many nonscientists -- and understandably so, said Vivian Ota Wang of the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda. "You may tell people that race isn't real and doesn't matter, but they can't catch a cab," Ota Wang said. "So unless we take that into account it makes us sound crazy." Instant CongressSubscribe Buttons                    | ||
Hey! What's going on here?
Your Gergen quote following the third paragraph of your post is significantly different from the corresponding part of the transcript. The two statements are polar opposites. One of them is either a typo or an outright fabrication intended to anger people.
Did you do that on purpose?
What did Gergen really say? Which is it?