Race

This week we started to learn about race. I think the major thing I learned was that race is not biological, but because of our history we have been brought up to think that way. Race is a social factor, it is not the color of someone's skin or their features. One day we had to look at a group of people and classify them into what group we thought they belonged to. Out of I think 16 people, we only put 4 into their right group. Many people will look at someone and automatically judge what group the belong to. You see someone who is black and they are just black, but that's wrong because they can be half Jewish like Lenny Kravitz as seen in the Dave Chappel video "Racial Draft". This video intrigued me because I am currently dating someone who is black and if you never got to know him you would not know that he is part Portuguese. Race is part of people's culture not what color their skin is, and unfortunatly most people don't think that way because they have been brought up to think people with dark skin are bad and people with white skin are good.