The Role Of Race In Society

In class we have spent the last few weeks discussing in complex idea of race in society. I found it interesting that in the PBS website, it said that race was created a couple hundred years ago to justify slavery. That information was able to spread around the world with the limited technology and has imbedded itself into society for hundreds of years. And today, with all information at our fingertips at all times, people still believe this to be true. Through class discussions and being able to see other people’s point of view on the topic, I was able to get a better grasp on the topic. One hundred years ago there were still people alive who were slaves. Now there a people still alive who were legally publicly discriminated by people and the government. We have made huge leaps in the past hundred years. In …show more content…
But both of those things were closer to 50 years than 100. I find this interesting because we accomplish so much in such little time, but then fail to make any major steps forward. We advanced so fast to get to the moon, and 50 years later we made it to one other planet. I personally think rocket science is more complex than racism, and it makes me think were racism will be in 100 years after the black suffrage movement. So much was accomplished in the first 50 years that the next 50 might not be that impressive. It’s clear that we still have a race problem, and situations like the O.J Simpson trial shows the racial differences, but that happened twenty years ago. And plenty of african-americans have been trying to show the inequality