How important is race?

[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]

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 bitch. 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 shit is unnecessary. There has to be something better to be concerned with.

 

["A Tout le Mond]

Not at all.

 

[And Step]

[QUOTE="A Tout le Monde";487967]Not at all.[/QUOTE]

Depends on your frame of reference

 

[CMac]

Race is just a away to differential people apart, my one nigga 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.