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I’m not Mexican, I am me.

February 6, 2017April 26, 2021 African, difference, first experience, human, Indian, judge, ME, Media, Mexican, Native American, race is not real, racial categories, real, species, stereotype, The American Anthropological Association, TV, Vox, younger

When I was younger, I always thought that race was real, I was surprised to find that it is not biologically real. Now that I know this I realized that some stereotypes I made about people are not true. I had always thought that if you looked one way then you were from a certain place but throughout this experience, I have learned not to make those stereotypes because they are not always true. Now I know I am not a certain race. I believe that no one is more important than one another because we are all one species: HUMAN. I just found out last year that I also have Native American in me, I thought that this was very interesting and surprising. I have seen many shootings on T.V. I am still shocked and questioning why people are doing this just because of how someone talks or looks. Sometimes I wonder if racism will ever stop or if it will just keep going on and on. I hope people will take a stand for these serious topics. I think that even in the election people are being racist to others. If people can just talk and not fight about these things I think racism will decrease. I hope that someday racism will end completely. If we keep raising awareness we will get people to talk about this and help!

Race is not real.

Race is not real. Race is only socially real. According to Vox, “There is no such thing as race because, there is not a race chromosome in our our body. It simply doesn’t exist”. We are all too alike to be a different race than one another. The reason we have different skin colors is because of where our ancestors came from. If your ancestors lived closer to the equator then they developed darker skin. Based on our environment we did certain things and looked certain ways and there is nothing wrong with that. Even though race is not real, ethnicity is real. So why are we still making these unfair judgements? It is just part of our nature to see different shapes and lines in things. That is why we sometimes see faces in trees or inanimate objects, so this comes into play when making judgements. The American Anthropological Association stated that “Differences among the “racial” categories were projected to their greatest extreme when the argument was posed that Africans, Indians, and Europeans were separate species, with Africans the least human and closer taxonomically to apes” they disagreed. Since race is not real, what will you do about this?

I am Black, Mexican, and White…

February 1, 2017February 1, 2017 1960, 25%, 50%, black people, caucasian, chromosome, country music, Darius Rucker, DNA, Ethiopian, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Malaysian, Mexican, Mongolian, music, politics, race is not real, Rap, science, Spanish, stereotypes, Vox, white, white people

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I used to think that I was not any other type of race than Mexican because I grew up around Mexican food and my nana used to speak Spanish a lot. Then one day my dad was talking about race and he told me I was Mexican, black, and white because of my mom. I am 25% white, 25% black because that is from my mom. From my dad I am 50% Mexican. I didn’t get bullied for my race. I also did not get any racist comments when I was growing up. Someone in my class thought that I was only Mexican, but I did not get offended by that because I am more Mexican than white and black. I used to hear on youtube and movies that white girls couldn’t dance and black people couldn’t do ballet. I also used to think that rap and hip hop was for black people only. I also used to think that country was for white people only until I heard a black person singing country music. My perspective changed after i heard a black person sing country (Darius Rucker) and a white person rap.

Race is Not Real

Race is not scientifically real, but socially real. Before 1960 black people weren’t allowed to sit in certain places of restaurants and were not allowed to use the same bathroom as white people. According to VOX a youtube channel race drives a lot of social and political outcomes. Race isn’t real. One of the first people who attempted to categorize race was a german scientist named Johann Friedrich Blumenbach around 1770 and 1776. He came up with Caucasian, Malaysian, Mongolian, Ethiopian, and American. In the 2000s the government decided Americans can be more than one race on the census. When the medical community uses race for health outcomes it is using race for a substitute for other factors.Such as where your ancestors came from or the same people who may have been put in the same group as you. There is no race chromosome in our DNA that people can point to because race does not exist. The reason why it matters is because there are a lot of wars going on because of race and that people think that it is real. In conclusion race is socially real and NOT scientifically real. You can’t look at someone’s DNA and say they are this type of race. This proves that race isn’t re

Michele Norris & Jenee Desmond Harris, How we talk about race: What word choice says about identity

March 17, 2015March 17, 2015 How We Talk About Race: What word choice says about identity, identoty, In the News, Jenee Desmond Harris, Kerri Miller, Michele Norris, MPR, NPR, Race Manners, The Grace of Silence, the race card project, Vox

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How We Talk About Race: What word choice says about identity
Mar 17, 2015

Michele Norris’ new Race Card Project encourages people to send in a postcard with six words that deal with how we talk about race and identity.

Norris joined MPR News’ Kerri Miller along with Vox race, law and politics reporter Jenee Desmond Harris, to discuss the project and examine what words we use when we talk about race.

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Guests:
Michele Norris: Host and special correspondent for NPR. She is also the founder of the Race Card project

Jenee Desmond Harris: Race, law and politics reporter for Vox. Previously wrote a column on the ethics and etiquette of talking about race called ‘Race Manners’

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