This post will pose a solution to the many questions that readers have been asking me and questions that I have been asking myself. My original question was, “Does racism exist in the year 2007?” People then said “yes” racism exists, or “no”, racism does not exist. However this creates a binary which means there are two opposing sides. In order to really understand this question, we must first take a look at what is meant by ‘racism’. So this leads me to my next question, “What, if any, is the causal relationship between ‘race’ and inequality?” Yet again, the issue is still with ‘race’, so I must define what is meant by race and show the relevant implications. Well the implication of ‘race’ is that it separates individuals. So I ask myself a new problematized question, one that looks at the bigger picture of the issue. “What aspect of mankind causes human beings to feel the need to separate individuals into groups?” This is the larger problem of the issue, “Why do human beings separate themselves at all?” To research this question, we must look at corporal and philosophical aspects of the situation. We now no longer have a question about ‘race.’ If we look at the bigger picture, then the idea of ‘race’ no longer exists.
My English teacher said something in class along the lines of to truly solve a problem could take a lifetime and to pick a topic that you are passionate enough about to research in the future. Well I am passionate about this topic and I do feel as though I will continue to research the problem in the future. People always ask what their purpose in life is, and this could possibly be mine. My work could someday end the term of ‘race’ and human beings will look upon each other as being truly equals.
As children, we enter this world with a since of innocence. Psychologists believe that the mind of a child is blank; there is no encrypted understanding of morals, ethics, or ‘race.’ Children view this world as being ‘colorblind.’ Everyone looks the same to kids, and they do not believe that people are any different from each other. Is it possible that America will one day be able to obtain this innocence? Can America ever become ‘colorblind’?
