Fatal Invention, by Dorothy Roberts (2011) was an extremely powerful reading. It opened my eyes tremendously to racism, both from the past and the present. I knew racism was something people faced each and every day, but I don’t think I ever registered that it happened or happens to this degree. The term “race” has been applied to discriminate against different groups of individuals. Robert’s talks about the history of race and how it has come to be today. She provides scientific evidence to prove her claims and talks about stories that involve race in one way, shape, or form. Race is political and not a biological category and scientific evidence proved that a long time ago.
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I agree with Dorothy Robert one hundred and ten percent. Race is a political grouping. It is not a biological category, so why do we make it one? There is scientific evidence to prove that people of all races are the same. “Chimpanzees have races; honeybees have races; we don’t have races.” There is only one human race. Human beings are not divided into races in the biological sense. “But if race is a political system, then we must use political means to end its harmful impact on our society.” Robert’s talks about how as a society we need to come together and make a difference. If we don’t start now how is it ever going to …show more content…
We look at the world through a “racial lens.” It affects where we attend church, where we live, who we vote for, and who we marry. It has a huge impact and how we go about our everyday lives. Everywhere we go we judge people on the color of their skin. Why should race be a political system that governs people by sorting them into social groupings? It shouldn’t be, but what made us this way? We have been referring to the invented rules we have been taught ever since we were born. We, as Americans, are so used to filtering our impressions of people. We start doing it as such a young age. We have been taught to start this process at such an early age that now it is the norm to us. We don’t even realize we are judging people as we do it.
“Race is the product of racism; racism is not the product of race.” How did racism come about? Racism has been around forever. Our ancestors have been through it and our ancestors’ ancestors have been through it and so on and so forth. Robert’s talked a lot about the history of racism and how it has evolved and changed over
“A biological race is a population of organisms that can be distinguished …show more content…
I agree with Dorothy Robert one hundred and ten percent. Race is a political grouping. It is not a biological category, so why do we make it one? There is scientific evidence to prove that people of all races are the same. “Chimpanzees have races; honeybees have races; we don’t have races.” There is only one human race. Human beings are not divided into races in the biological sense. “But if race is a political system, then we must use political means to end its harmful impact on our society.” Robert’s talks about how as a society we need to come together and make a difference. If we don’t start now how is it ever going to …show more content…
We look at the world through a “racial lens.” It affects where we attend church, where we live, who we vote for, and who we marry. It has a huge impact and how we go about our everyday lives. Everywhere we go we judge people on the color of their skin. Why should race be a political system that governs people by sorting them into social groupings? It shouldn’t be, but what made us this way? We have been referring to the invented rules we have been taught ever since we were born. We, as Americans, are so used to filtering our impressions of people. We start doing it as such a young age. We have been taught to start this process at such an early age that now it is the norm to us. We don’t even realize we are judging people as we do it.
“Race is the product of racism; racism is not the product of race.” How did racism come about? Racism has been around forever. Our ancestors have been through it and our ancestors’ ancestors have been through it and so on and so forth. Robert’s talked a lot about the history of racism and how it has evolved and changed over