Upon completing
the Sorting Race Activity and reviewing “Is Race Real,” the fact that stood out
to me the most was number 6: Human subspecies don’t exist. Human beings are in
fact the most similar of all species on the planet. This fact alone infuriates
me. It is unbelievable to think that so many people have undergone unfair and
disgusting displays of human cruelty based on race or ethnicity, when in reality,
there is no such thing. It has been proven that race is nothing but a myth, and
yet society does everything it can to ignore this fact. I am shocked that
despite extensive evidence that biological races do not, and have never in the
past existed among the human race, racism is still prevalent today. The idea
that races exist and that certain races are ‘better than others’ has led to horrific
injustice, prejudice—even genocide. The concept of race and racism is nothing
but a cultural phenomenon, hopefully one that eventually dissipates into
nothing but history.
Elizabeth this stood out to me as well. Just beginning to understand how we are all so very similar, but can think so hard on how to make ourselves different is mind blowing. To the point that we have groups of people who are in control and will make the choice to mistreat someone else because they believe them to be different. But in fact they are so very similar.
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