Race in America

Race is something new to the world. People were not always categorized as different races. However, these categorizations today are usually far from accurate. Many people believe race to be biological, but the real racism exists with skin color and looks. In class, we took a race quiz guessing what race famous people were just by looking at their picture. This was much more difficult than it sounds. We got the majority wrong because we based our decisions on their color and features that we assume to all belong to one race. There are many people who are of mixed decent, but no one takes the mixture into account and just single them into one race category. For example, Barack Obama is half white and half black. Everyone sees him and treats him as a black man when he is just as much white as he is black. This shows how diluted our perception of race is and I don't know if this perception will ever change.