Looking back at Synthesis

Looking back at the synthesis essay, which is one of the most challenging I've had to write, I've learned more about how ingrained race is in American culture than anything else.  We can try to remove race by removing labels, but instead of removing race all together we just focus on some other facet - such as clothing or music or where someone lives.  Even writing about the topic of race is very difficult to do without ensnaring oneself in using racial terms.  It's nearly impossible to say "we shouldn't use black and white" without saying "black and white".  The bigger question to this issue is where we need to be for it to be "acceptable?"  That's the million dollar question and I doubt it's something that will be answered within my lifetime.  There will probably never been a "single" answer and each culture and each person in each culture will have to come up with this for themselves.