Reflection

My reflection on this blog project, leads me back to where I started from. I started this blog as a student not yet knowing what I was getting myself into. The topic that I chose was something deeply troubling to me in the depth of my soul. The subject of racism and racial issues as a whole is a controversial issue, but an issue that we should acknowledge and never look upon with a blind eye. The key to the problem with racial relations, is the key to the very thing that I tried to eliminate in this blog; personal ‘bias.’ The problem with ‘bias’ is that it causes individuals to have tunnel vision; to only be able to look at an issue through one’s own perspective. So in order to eliminate my own bias on this issue, I first acknowledged the fact that I was bias, that I was trapped inside the issue, rather than looking from outside the problem hoping to find an answer. I let readers see the background story of my life in hopes that they could understand my logic. For I know now that my logic is flawed and that I only knew the world from my own perspective. Although I searched for the answer to my problem, you cannot find an answer without first admitting that you have a problem. I realize now that the purpose of my writing was not really to persuade anybody else to think like me. The purpose of my writing was to alter my very own capacity to think. I needed to find out what is the causal relationship between humans inability to create equality amongst each other and my life. In hopes of doing so I researched my topic and realized that maybe I was asking the wrong questions. I realized that I needed to understand the essence of the problem and define what it is that people are really fighting about. So I challenged the very idea of race and came to the conclusion that there really isn’t tangible evidence that separates human beings into different races. So why do human beings separate each other? Does this separation lead to conflict? My research is not yet complete and my questions are not yet answered. However, I will continue to search for an answer in hopes of bettering this world.

In the year 2007, we must all ask ourselves these questions. Is the idea of race still relevant in today’s society? Is the fact that human beings characterize thereby separating one another, the root of the problem? Does this create tension among groups of people? Is there a way to really take ‘race’ outside the equation? Have we evolved so much as a nation that there is no longer a need to classify ‘races’?