The Myth Of Race By Agustin Fuentes Analysis

Race relations have been around for decades, and things haven’t changed so much since the incident in Little Rock on September 4th, 1957. Most African Americans still find it hard to be included into the White American society because there are still people in the world that choose not to accept them, due to the color of their skin. They are still being mistreated and judged and people always assume the worst from them in every given situation. In the article, “The Myth of Race” by Agustin Fuentes, he explains the question about human variation and how we can tell everyone apart from each other and how it’s all just a myth. I believe that people who discriminate against anyone of color need to understand that we are all the same on the inside and we are the ones who make the categories between each other.
Most of us believe that we should pat ourselves on the back for changing racism over the years but we really shouldn’t because even though most African Americans aren’t being treated so beastly as they were back then, they are still being discriminated today. They aren’t being enslaved physically but mentally because people make assumptions that they are all terrible and …show more content…
They didn’t talk explain much about Brown v. Board and everything he went through to so the Little Rock nine could attend Central High School.They focused on why they were attending an all white school and none of them had no problem expressing their feelings to Elizabeth as she walked to school that day, especially Hazel Bryan. “And America saw her, haunted and taunted for the simple color of her skin, and in the image we caught a very disturbing glimpse of ourselves ” (205). Yet the ones who actually wanted to help her out continued to stand there like sitting ducks because they were too scared to actually do anything about