Where Race Does Not Matter? (REFLECTION #1)
Author: Cecil Foster
By: Deena Jacob
To start off my first reflection on the book, "Where Race Does Not Matter, I'd like to talk about one of the strongest points the author brings forth and that is the way black people were treated during the age of Modernity. According to the facts in the book, I find it troubling that black-skinned people were treated so bad that they were considered less than humans. They were the race that was not fully realized or acclaimed than those perfected beings of the higher achieving civilization, cultures and nation states. Black people were held as slaves and then in apprenticeship and tutelage until the white elites of the world deemed they civilized enough to govern themselves. A culture that was constantly under alienation from other cultures, a culture where the lived experience was always lagging behind the perfection attained when humans reach their full potential. But although this was the case,......
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