Tax deductions for mixed-race marriages

As a conservative, I'm generally opposed to cultural-engineering by government. But it would be disingenuous to deny that a presumption of almost any policy or law is it's affect on the larger culture.
The tax code, in all it's complexity, diversity, and the specificity with which it rewards or punishes, is a common example of how we can encourage or discourage certain behaviors. Our elected officials can and do utilize this tool of monetary manipulation in a multitude of ways that reflect our collective cultural values.
One of the most basic items is the standard deduction for dependents. To care for another,(usually one's own child/children) to provide shelter and food, educational and medical needs, is a noble and valuable contribution to society's common welfare. This act of personal philanthropy, although usually done out of love and/or a sense of duty, is acknowledged as a benefit to society and, therefore, rewarded with a tax deduction.

Which brings me to my point: the world will be a better place when mankind is so blended in our bloodlines that you can't tell what ethnicity someone is. And to promote this almost inevitable (albeit distant) and most welcome and glorious homogenizing of humankind, the United States of America could encourage and reward the natural parents of mixed-race children by offering an additional targeted tax deduction. This concrete expression of our appreciation for the struggles they and their children are likely to encounter with some small-minded bigots, perhaps within their own families, would affirm their contribution to the unifying of the human race.
We exempt churches from taxation because we believe their contribution to society is beneficial.
We exempt non-profit organizations from across a wide range of interests, similarly.

In fact, you may be quite surprised to learn about just how generous (to use an ironic term when referring to the U.S. Tax Code) we our with the variety of investments and activities that we encourage by allowing deductions or exemptions from income and property taxes.
Take a look for yourself at (http://www.fourmilab.ch/ustax/ustax.html) and do a search of almost any activity or thing and see if the results pertain to some way in which the code is amended to accommodate the interests of some very select groups. You might say special. As in special interests. Or special interest groups.
While acknowledging that many somebodies had many lobbyists fighting to secure these many exemptions, allowances, and deductions, the pursuits they represent were judged by our elected officials to be of some benefit to the country at large, and therefore worthy of special consideration.

I believe that we can accelerate the march toward realizing Martin Luther King Jr.'s beautiful dream, when we are judged not by the color of our skin- but by the content of our character, and, at the very least, make a statement of support for the princple of unity, by helping to erase the most common and at the same time the most superficial and insignificant barrier we place between ourselves: race.
Although none of us will live to see it, the dream could be only a few generations away.

A precious child I have mentored is the beautiful result of a relationship between a white and a black. If she were to fall in love some day and actually get married, please God, to a man of, let's say asian and hispanic parentage, and they were blessed with children, this one union would result in the mingling of the four most distinct "races". (Not that anyone should ever try to orchestrate such an arrangement- we're not God, afterall! I'm just saying "what if...")
If we could multiply this situation by all the combinations- if we could influence our young people to think more broadly in their choices of whom they might desire to make a family with- we could saturate society with a multitude of citizens that would shatter the false constructs we've struggled against for generations.

And then, we eliminate legal recognition of race.

Gone, would be the insidious practice of categorizing ourselves by skintone. No longer would we have to check a box on applications, surveys, and government documents that try to pigmentally parse people.
Tossed on the ash heap of history, the concept of "race" (and the advantage or disadvantage
it carried) would no longer confer status of any kind to an individual.

I know, I know: I'm a dreamer.
And, of course, there are those who will quickly protest that it's not just skin color at issue here- it's culture. The distinct culture of a particular people-group; a people-group most distinctly identified by: outward appearance.
But, what is culture? From the American Heritage Dictionary: " The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought." And: "The predominating attitudes and behavior that characterize the functioning of a group or organization." Where does melanin come in?
So then, you might point to the shape of facial features or the texture/color of hair as a differentiating factor. Of what importance are these? And why cling to notions of difference at all?

I say, let us cast off the bondage of difference. Let us shed the shackles of segregationism in our own minds. And more than that, let us affirm the goal of unity--let us take action to achieve that goal. Now, that's affirmative action we should continue.
Brad