Bill, I think you confuse recognizing race with racism. Racism is about making unfair, inaccurate and cruel assumptions about people based on race. Racism is destructive, vile and hurtful.
To tell a doctor (for example) that he/she should not factor race into diagnosis or recommendations could also be harmful. There are scientifically, medically documented differences between races. These differences do not overall make one race superior or inferior to another, but they exist.
To imagine otherwise is, to my thinking, a form of reverse racism.