Biological Definition Of Race Essay

There are many ways race can be shown, but I have learned that there is no biological definition of race. Most people categorize people through physical appearance and where a person is from. Just because people have a different name or a different way of doing things does not mean they are going to hurt anyone, give them a chance because they are human too. There was a situation in Texas where a student made an alarm clock at home and he took it to school to show his teacher what he had done. Race was displayed in this situation because once the teacher seen the invention she went straight to the school and the school called the cops and told them that the student had made a bomb. Once the cops arrived the student was arrested. The teacher assumed that the alarm clock was a bomb but she never
People make assumptions frequently about race and it is usually not nice. In the older days racism was really bad. Colored people had to go to certain buildings, ride different buses, drink out of separate water fountains, than the white people. In today’s society you do not see racism as bad as you did back in older days. In Ahmed’s position he was arrested and questioned without a legal guardian about an alarm clock he had invented and would not let his dad see what the invention was because of them being Muslim. The police officers had no right to keep bringing up the child’s last name and not letting him talk to his parents until the interrogation was finished. The social construction of race and the consequences of racial thinking are very real in our social and political world. Also the biological races do not and should not exist among humans. Everyone was born into a racist society. With this being said Ahmed was called names like terrorist and bomb maker because of his race and religion. This just goes to show there is still racism in today’s society even though there isn’t a biological definition of