Race Reflection Paper

Being raised in a middle class farm town, a documentary such as, Race is truly eye opening. Growing up, we had maybe two African American students in my class, which was the most the school district had seen in years. As I progressed through school, the number of African Americans increased, but if the new African American students did not get along with the football players they were chased out of the district. At the time, I didn’t think too much of it, but after the documentary, it made me take a step back and realize how hard it must have been for those students and their families. As mentioned prior, my community was primarily white and middle class. Race, or the concept of, was never discussed. Everyone knew that to be well-known in the community you were white and lived the ‘American Dream’, you didn’t protest otherwise. Until Cultural Pluralism and this documentary, I was under the impression that race was something biological, meaning the genes your parents passed onto you determined what race you were. It was shocking to me to discover that scientists had found otherwise, stating fruit flies had a more diverse DNA type. After this concept, it was so
Despite the fact that some of these issues took place decades ago, many still believe that race has so much to do with your future successes. While I find this to be true, primarily due to the race gap that has been created, I do not feel that it should continue. Race should evolve to a term of the dark past, as it really has no significant meaning. Science has proved that biologically we all are nearly the same, more so than fruit flies. So, why can’t we work to get along? I believe through furthering our education on topics like race, it will allow for everyone to see what has truly occurred or continues to occur and why it is