Germany’s coalition government has abandoned controversial plans to strike the word “race” from an anti-discrimination provision in the country’s constitution, sources close to the government told dpa on Friday. Some critics in Germany have long felt that the use of the word “race” in the Basic Law, as the constitution is known, implies that various human races actually exist. The word is used in a section of the Basic Law’s Article 3, which strictly prohibits discrimination based on “sex, parentage, race, language, homeland and origin, faith, or religious or political opinions.” The section i…