extra credit: power of illusion

This video speaks of how race was created by us and how we perceive it. In part I, the narrator claim that we classify individuals not depending on their gene but on eye color, skin, body shape... and these deference, race. We often think that our physic and look is linked to athletic ability or intelligence. However, Pilar Ossorio explains that genetic is what can tell us about it. A group of student compares their DNA and found that we can have the same skin color, eye... Don't have anything in common. However, two individuals can look difference and have lot similarities. In this part I, I understand that race was made to not discriminate some people, to make them feel that they are not human, to make them suffer from the wealthy power.

 American, especially white uses race to economically develop the country. Here in the U.S, We just defined people base on their skin color. Jefferson was the first who talked about race in this country saying that we are all created equally. However, he had slave and justified as something that is a norm. We accept that all men are created equal but then having slave just mean that they are not really human.  It is obvious that race is used to rationalize and justify U.S society. Genetically speaking we see that resemblance doesn't depend on race. Even though we have difference skin tone or don’t look the same, we are not different, we are human.

Comparing when white was ruling South Africa and today, we see that the gap of income between black and white have widely change. We also understand black unemployment are wider than white. If a white and a black present in a job interview, the white are most likely to get hired than the black. This means that skin color determine our destiny. Black people are disfranchised and in the mid 1990 the Belle Curve become the best seller in the U.S just by claiming that black people are less smarter than white. The Belle Curve was just used to cute black people benefit. It suggests that black are inferior so there are no need to help for scholarship or anything for their success. White supremacy has dehumanized, divided, and killed, the non-white. Racism continues to control everywhere.

 We also find that race is just something that is created to control minority, those we don't have any power. I've seen a lot people getting denied for job because of their skin color. We usually tend to as we see in the chapter that something like sport is attributed to black, or white as intelligence. This doesn’t have any relationship and we are all the same. We usually find a way to make it a norm just like Jefferson. How can we separate something that is so mix? Now, it is not easy to tell a black and Spanish or Spanish and white. However we are still using just to limit others. In this country black are so discriminated that everything is hard for them. I would say that they block everything to make them not succeed. Race is just created for economic and politic purpose. It helps people who are in power (white) to maintain their status so they control others.