For many being part of their racial group is what makes them unique, and many individuals would like to keep it that way. For example, I love being seen as a strong African American women and I have a few classmates that are Hispanic that feel the same way about their racial group. Taking that identity away from us would force us to give up what makes us different. One of the main points in the short racially motivated documentary was to not fit into any box or label, but if the racial label was removed how would individuals be able to track down their ancestry history? How would individuals be able to describe who they are? If racial labels were removed would the dominate group find some other label to place us under? Therefore, is the label of race the problem or is the problem the negative stigma that is placed along with race? The young man in the short documentary do not want to be placed in any racial group because race is only what individuals can see about you from the
For many being part of their racial group is what makes them unique, and many individuals would like to keep it that way. For example, I love being seen as a strong African American women and I have a few classmates that are Hispanic that feel the same way about their racial group. Taking that identity away from us would force us to give up what makes us different. One of the main points in the short racially motivated documentary was to not fit into any box or label, but if the racial label was removed how would individuals be able to track down their ancestry history? How would individuals be able to describe who they are? If racial labels were removed would the dominate group find some other label to place us under? Therefore, is the label of race the problem or is the problem the negative stigma that is placed along with race? The young man in the short documentary do not want to be placed in any racial group because race is only what individuals can see about you from the