One question continues to circulate in my head. Why do we need to chose a race to be "not as good" as us. As we have been learning, in the United States, many different nationalities were not accepted into society such as the Irish, Italians, Greeks, and so on. Now we consider them white. While I understand that some people are socially constructed have racist thoughts, I don't know how they are ignorant enough to believe it. I watch the Tyra Bank Show from time to time and there was one episode dealing with race, specifically biracial people. It was crazy how some of the guests though biracial would claim to be only one of the races because they were embarrassed about the other half they possessed. For example, one half-black and half-white woman said she was only black because whites are snobs and one man who also had this back ground claimed to be all white because he hate how blacks are so "ghetto". So I ask, how do we let racism become so big that people hate their own identities? Racism is a very important issue to me while I haven't had to deal with much. However, I'm not sure what can I do about it.
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