I agree that race is more than skin color. When humans are born into this world we don't choose our skin color. But race is a construct foisted upon us without our consent to legitimize certain hierarchies, and to divide people who would otherwise find community with one another. Whom among us really chooses what race we are? Why should we cede soverignty over our own identity to a construct that uses it only for benign purposes. In the vision of utopia we are fighting for, why destroy the hierarchies but maintain the construct of race? What purposes does it serve that aren't malignant? Hearing that you would choose to hang out/not hang out with people just because of race also further convinces me it is a malignant construct, but because we are in disagreement i want to try to understand your thinking.