Reasons Why Race Exists

The skin color a person is born with is something that they have to live with for their entire life. Whether the person is White, African American, Asian, or Native American, they can not change the race they were born into. As it says in the book, race is a group of people defined by physical characteristics, such as skin color, that differentiate members from other groups on that basis. All it is, is simply physical appearances, but it completely categorize people in good and bad ways. Some people do not want to believe that race plays an enormous role in a person’s life, but it does because race is all about power.
As you said before during lectures, African Americans make up about thirteen percent of the population, but they make up about sixty percent of the population in prison. These startling statistics are due to socialization. The book’s
The book says social structures are a preconceived framework of understanding in which social interaction occurs and influences human behavior in predictable ways. Social structures affect race because the people at the bottom of social structures are slaves and servants. Ever since the beginning of time, people who looked different than the majority of people; African Americans, Asians, and Native American, were the people that were treated unfairly. Whether they were sold into slavery and put to work , or were slaughtered and kicked out of their own land they were treated terribly when they did not deserve it at all. Now, in this day and age, kids are being taught about what happened to these different races in their history class, and it influences their behavior towards people that look different, because if their ancestors did it than their must have been a reason for it. Although, the only reason for it was that white people wanted all the power so they put themselves at the top of the social structures, and that is why race continues to stay around