Race

This week in sociology we talked about race and how it does not exist. Sal told us that race is just how we see people by skin color, etc. During class one day, we viewed different types of people and were questioned what race each person was. After the comparison to correct answers, we did a poor job. An example of this is Sammy Sosa nowadays. Sammy Sosa was a darker skinned baseball player who played for the Chicago Cubs. Sammy bleached his skin and therefore doesn't look his true ethnicity and wanted to stop being classified as black. Also, in class we were shown different types of sports balls and Sal put them on a table in a linear fashion. We were told to group them in a certain way of our choice. Most students classified the balls together based on each sport or size. In America, we group people by their skin tone, which I believe is terrible.