How important is race?

unspoken_respect

We were talking about race in my sociology class today and this white women on the front says "Obama has a white mother and black father so why cant he be considered white?"

I'm thinking that "she makes a good point". I'm also thinking "When have white people ever excepted a person of African heritage as their own?" Never!

Black people except all. From the highest yellow to the darkest black. Even mixed people.

Besides Obama is biracial. He can call himself what ever he wants and the last time I checked he calls himself black.

Hyde Parke

Well there are some pretty strong arguments that race technically doesnt exist, but im to tired to get into all that right now. If i have time tomorrow, i will def drop my thoughts.

BEAM

Race is a social construct kept in place to establish difference.

It's unnecessary and imaginary.

allreasoned_out

White people invented the one-drop rule, and black people eventually embraced it.

Still, it's a rule worth reconsidering.

haute

i don't think biracial people should have to choose black or white(or whatever mixed background they are), they should be able to identify themselves as both, because that's what they are

sdrawkcabseh

I agree with most in here, that race was used to keep people in place, never to reach their full potential in a crooked system.............

blackrain

it's only as important as the individual makes it...but I do find it funny whenever one race makes comment that show they really have no experiences outside of their own race

garv

In the society i live in? very important.

unspoken_respect

My professor was linking race to stereotypes and I could see why she made that point. It isn't a bad thing but stereotypes make it negative. At the end of the day race shouldn't matter.

BEAM

unspoken respect wrote: »

My professor was linking race to stereotypes and I could see why she made that point. It isn't a bad thing but stereotypes make it negative. At the end of the day race shouldn't matter.

It doesn't.

race means absolutely nothing and has no linkage to anything factual beyond melanin.

[Trillmatic]

obamas not seen as white cuz he's not white in color....dumb ? . if everybody had no idea his mom was white he'd still just be called a ni993r.

SweetzIsAwesome

I don't see color.. I just see a person.. (:

Chike

Technically, you are what your father is, so that would make him black.

theillestrator

It's race. There's nothing scientific about it, so he's whatever people want to call him. Why does it matter? His success doesn't determine my/your success. And what law says that you are what you father is? If his mother was black and father was white, people would still call him black. This race ? is unnecessary. There has to be something better to be concerned with.

"A Tout le Mond

Not at all.

And Step

A Tout le Monde wrote:

Not at all.

Depends on your frame of reference

CMac

Race is just a away to differential people apart, my one ? is a Sociology major and he felt that race was made up by white people to put people in social order, whites on top and black at the bottom and everyone else is in between. Even if that's what race really means, it doesn't mean that now to most people in 2010.