Summary Of Race: The Power Of An Illusion

For centuries, it was believed that the darker your skin the less intelligent you are. People with darker skin were compared to monkeys because it was believed that they evolved from apes. They were separated and treated completely different from white people, one could say they were treated like animals. It took years for mankind to learn that the color of your skin does not make you different from the next person. In fact, we learned that every human being is almost the same. The video Race: The Power of an Illusion shows that every human is mixed with a little bit of every race. The video Race: The Power of an Illusion gathered a group of six students and asked them who they thought they would be more related to. Two of the students were Caucasian, two of the students were African American, and two of the students were Asian. Of course, each student said they would be more related to the person of their own race. Each of the participants gave a blood sample and a saliva sample for DNA testing. After the DNA samples were analyzed each of the students’ DNA were placed beside each other for comparing. In result, the students of the same races were different from each other. The students were astonished at the fact that …show more content…
It was nearly inevitable that the different races would reproduce together but the mixing of races was not always tolerated. Over centuries years ago people with colored skin were not allowed to communicate with a white person. African Americans were thought to be inferior and their extinction was inevitable. In the video Race: The Power of an Illusion it was stated that blacks were taken through surgical procedures so that each of their body parts could be measured and compared to those of a white person. There were no differences found yet white people asserted that blacks and whites were completely