Is Race Real?
Is the concept of race real or not?
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Updated 4.8.2009
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1. Corey Thomas | April 8th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Another interesting question. I think that the concept of race is as real as we allow it to be. I also believe that some people may need it to exist. Otherwise they may not have anything left to focus on.
Personally, I don’t choose to allow myself to be separated from another being simply based on their ethnicity. I have also made the conscious decision to not live my life focusing on a person’s “race.” With that said, I do believe that having a rich knowledge of the past “race” issues in the country is critical. We have no need to repeat those events.
The concept of race is as real as we make it. It was definitely real historically. It is probably just as real today because of our conditioning. “I think therefore I am”…right? Let’s choose to treat “race” differently though. We have that choice.
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