I don’t understand why race still matters.

Barbara Coughlin,
Berlin, CT

I’m a Boomer of Irish descent. I grew up on Staten Island. From the time I was 11 (the oldest of six) our family became lovingly entwined with a black family. We all feel we had four parents. When my mother died two years ago, she was holding the hand of my other mother. And my Irish American husband and I have three Asian children. I work with people of all races and ethnic groups. Why does race even still matter. I don’t understand it.