if we really are supposed to be equal and american. then why should it matter what one’s race is?
when filling out documents, why is it necessary to know my race or have some kind of statistic?
we are all american. we dont need to cater to once race anyways.
so why must we identify ourselves? especially when the options, are usually inaccurate? only few times, have i come across a "mixed with 2 or more races" option.
so is race identification, just holding us further back from equality?
I don’t get it either. Soon, it would be a thing of the past. The only purpose it may serve is for documenting in medical matter…because some races have higher or lower tendencies with particular diseases, like blacks are rated higher in risk for hypertension and some asians in B-12 def.anemia.
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May 31st, 2010 at 9:28 pm
I personally think it is ridiculous. I am african american and their are already enough discrimination against different races. People look at us differently no matter what they say. It doesn’t mean one is racist, but everyones thoughts change when they see a different colored person. We ARE all american so y does matter if we are hispanic black white…etc.? It IS holding us back from equality. America may have more freedom than some other countries…but leet’s be real. In the eyes of a "colored person", its not. Sometimes i even wonder why they call us colored when we dont turn
red when we’re embarrased or mad
purple when we hold our breath
pale when we’re sick
I don’t turn all colors of the rainbow :\. So when I see those documents to try and fill in what race I am, all I can do is grimace. WHat difference SHOULD it make?
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May 31st, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Race identification was invented by religionists to keep people in line. If you read the Old Testament, you will find it is about 65% ‘us’ against ‘them’ with ‘them’ being described as people who are ‘different’ and therefore to be robbed, raped, killed, subjugated, enslaved, etc. at will by those identified as ‘us,’
Increasing use of technology resulted in the expansion of this type of thinking. The fifteenth to eighteenth centuries saw religion and monarchies in Europe combine to create entire new levels of genocidal massacre of tens of millions of indigent peoples, wholesale chattel slavery and movement of millions of people combined with pillage, destruction of ecology and extinction of vast numbers of species of many kinds, all fueled by this concept of race and racial superiority of a few groups over all others.
Most of the race identification requirements today are geared to attempt to rectify some of these abuses, but most of them are misguided.
I think first that the concept of equality needs a recommitment, given that this nation was founded upon the general idea of equality but a specific notion that that equality only applied to Anglo-Saxon white male property owners of English extraction.
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May 31st, 2010 at 9:49 pm
I don’t get it either. Soon, it would be a thing of the past. The only purpose it may serve is for documenting in medical matter…because some races have higher or lower tendencies with particular diseases, like blacks are rated higher in risk for hypertension and some asians in B-12 def.anemia.
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May 31st, 2010 at 10:16 pm
i think your totally right
out of like 10 college application forms i filled in, 7 asked what race i was and its like, why does it matter??
it is unecessary to know the race in my opinion, it shouldnt change our work place or what education we go into
mine plz? http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkbH0iQhajw.67A7OJWTnLEgBgx.;_ylv=3?qid=20081127082757AAjv2nw
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