Language

In her article "He's not black" Marie Arana says that "we have one foot in the future and one foot still mired in the Old south" what she means is we consider all races to be equal, but we still judge people by their races stereotypes, and label each other as "black" "white" or "yellow'' I agree with Arana when she says that "language should move on" but if we stop using labels what would we call ourselves.
The reason we automatically label people is we cant tell what their background is from just looking at them. A person that we see might be a mix of Black, White, and Mexican, but we call them by what they appear to be. I don't like it when people stereotype and label each other, but it is a problem that is practically unsolvable. Labels are so widely used in the media and our lives that it will take years for use to learn to stop using them.