I am doing this blog for a class "African American Women's history." Today we discussed the term "race." There were varying opinions about what the term means. Some said it meant color, others said culture and still others said it was a form of cast system. Several of the students questioned why we needed to have a title of race anyway. Why can't a person be taken for who they are instead of how they look.
I think that there has always been a "race" issue. The Jew's have a prayer that praises God for them not being a gentile or a woman. People seem to need a way to make themselves feel more important then another. Even in countries where the skin color is the same there is a "race" issue. North and South Koreans. English vs. Welsh, Scott's or Irish. In America there is a vast number of race differences which may have to do with color yet may not as in Irish-Americans vs. Italian-American. We will be getting into the gender aspect tomorrow.
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