Core 210-05
Cyndi Brandenburg
12/14/08
Darwin Revelation
My Darwin Revelation is that race does not determine anything about who a person is. Whether you define race by a person's origins or by the color of their skin doesn't matter, it still doesn't truly define who they are. It's partly based on genetics, and our parents.
That means that for several hundred years we have been discriminating against others because of something that we have no control over. We've been wasting our time believing that skin color could possibly make someone less human. All this time, it was merely the human bodies' ability to adapt itself to the light of the sun that sparked racism; more specifically, humans that are isolated geographically become genetically different because of natural selection (Appleman).
the video that i have embedded on this post has a clear description about what i'm talking about, but a good portion of the end goes off on a tangent about racial denial. still, it was very well put together.
Well, now we all know the foolishness of discrimination by skin color, and thus we no longer do it. no longer are people treated differently because of their race, because science has taught us that the variation in skin color is just something humans did naturally to help them survive different climates.
Appleman, Philip, ed. Darwin. 3rd ed. New York: W.W.Norton, 2001.
That means that for several hundred years we have been discriminating against others because of something that we have no control over. We've been wasting our time believing that skin color could possibly make someone less human. All this time, it was merely the human bodies' ability to adapt itself to the light of the sun that sparked racism; more specifically, humans that are isolated geographically become genetically different because of natural selection (Appleman).
the video that i have embedded on this post has a clear description about what i'm talking about, but a good portion of the end goes off on a tangent about racial denial. still, it was very well put together.
Well, now we all know the foolishness of discrimination by skin color, and thus we no longer do it. no longer are people treated differently because of their race, because science has taught us that the variation in skin color is just something humans did naturally to help them survive different climates.
Appleman, Philip, ed. Darwin. 3rd ed. New York: W.W.Norton, 2001.
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