As a result of the civil rights movement and immigration,
United States society is one of the most racially and ethnically diverse
societies in the world. Why race matters? If “race” is just a word man-made why
it matters? It is the way that the dominant culture defines us; the minority group, that one that doesn't have power! No one can, or should, deny the long and horrible history of racial
oppression in this country. Racism is still a reality and, though
it can never be abolish entirely. But, by any objective measure, you would have
to say that the last fifty years have seen a tremendous amount of progress in
the area of racial relations. It is
simply ridiculous to compare the status of black Americans today to that of
blacks fifty, a hundred or two hundred years ago, when slavery existed, where
the segregation was one of the
principle laws in the United States! I
agree with Cornel West “race matters” basic assumption: that “race” does
“matter.” Our society has been and remains tainted by race divisions. Through
West's critical eyes we see the various, often unfortunate, ways in which race
has become America's national obsession. “The common denominator of these views
of race is that each still sees black people as a “problem people,” To engage
in a serious discussion of race in America, we must begin not with the problems
of black people but with the flaws of American society, flaws rooted in
historic inequalities and longstanding cultural stereotypes.” Discrimination
still exits and it is a problem since ancient times, it is not something that
can be forgotten so easily and for many is just another definition to justify
inequality but it is right to be prejudice?
It is right to think that one “race “is better than another?
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