Race & Ethnicity suckaaaaa

The article from the book discussed the impact of race and ethnicity on everyone's life and the way that it has changed from 100 to even 50 years ago to now. Things have definitely changed, women's rights, civil rights, gay rights have all been major movements in the 20th century and have made remarkable strides towards equality, unfortunately prejudices and racism still exists today. 

The book also talked about how different races are all the same biologically because we are all human beings and it also talked about different prominence for diseases among different races which I thought was interesting. For example black men have a greater chance of having prostate cancer because of their increased testosterone levels; why is that? What makes one race more susceptible to one disease and the others less? It doesn't really make sense to me unless it all has to do with history and thousands of years of environmental causes. History has definitely favored white men and affirmative action is trying to reverse the injustices history has seen.

The only experience I have had with affirmative action thus far was applying to colleges. The application asks you for your ethnicity, it is optional however it is there nonetheless. I have never put down my ethnicity because I want to get places in life based on my own merit not because of my ethnicity or race. 

The book has been talking alot about race and stereotyping lately which is cool....i guess, but let's see what's in store for future readings.

PEACE!

-bluey