"In the end, we're all Americans." Freshman Felicia Forte

I imagine you don't know that the federal government is actively promoting racism. As reported by the Sacramento Bee, "The federal No Child Left Behind requires schools to ensure students of all races achieve proficiency in English and math by 2014. So the agency is pressing schools to identify all students by race in 2010-11 or face penalties." Please note the reference to punishment, a favorite liberal technique for compelling cooperation.

"According to the Federal Register, there will no longer be a 'no race and/or ethnicity unknown' category and schools will use 'observer identification'. . . but California refuses to force schools to rely on 'third-party observation'. . . " Therefore many students at Laguna Creek High School, a college preparatory institution in the Elk Grove Unified School District near Sacramento, have taken a positive step toward eliminating racism by listing their race as "multiple/no response." In fact, statewide, the incidence of students and parents indentifying themselves in this manner has increased 70% in the last three years. This is a very encouraging sign which is being mirrored by students in higher education, and recognizes the basic humanity in all of us.

As Laguna senior, Jessica Mae Belcher, 17, whose roots are African and Cherokee, said, "I'm not saying we're going to forget where we came from, but we can all see similarities from different hardships, [and by eliminating racial categories], we can make racial hatred go away."