May 2006

"A popular political statement now is, 'There is no such thing as race.' I wonder what people think when they hear this. They would have to suppose that the speaker, if he were dropped by parachute into downtown Nairobi, would be unable to tell, by looking around him, whether he was in Nairobi or Stockholm. This could only damage his credibility. The visible differences between different populations of the world tell everyone that there is something there."

- Alice Brues, Physical Anthropologist, University of Colorado. "