Sorting People By Race

As I read the readings, watch the film and did the Sorting the Race activity, I am discovered that I was putting labels on people just as much as people were placing on me. I am not sure why but I just feel it is apart of a learned behavior. In the article How white People becam white, I was a little confused on how "just" white people became white, what I took from the article was that maybe how much money you made in the article it says "white men's wages". Something new that I learned was that during the great depression they considered greeks to have African American, Indian and white heritage, so it just goes along with what has been said in history that just some blood of African American in your body, you are considered to be "Black". In the The roots of racial classification" I have always pondered over the fact why are they so many poor people in one of the richest nations and that equality is in the consitution but not followed by our politicians, who claim to be for equal justice. There were two similiarities that slaves were most likely enslaved because the color of their skin and that is how they identified slave property, it is no different of what is happening today, for Newt to say that "Black communities on foodstamps" he just put all African Americans in one pot. I agree with the film when Dr. Ben Carson spoke of taking a childs hand and embracing him or her with the rich history of African Americans can change that childs future by acknowledging all the important inventions in our history was created by his ancestors.
"Is Race for Real?" was an interesting activity of course thats when I realize that I too, was putting people in an category of which I assumed they should be. The three facts that stood out to me were the socities part in divding people by their religion, class and even their language and putting you on a ladder of where they felt you should be. Another fact was that people were enslaved because of looking similiar to another person, like anything not white was considered inferior, heathens and even savages and that were doing African Americans a favor to christianize them and enslave them because they did not know any better, than to be led in chains by someone of "white" skin. The third fact I found interesting was the colorblindness will not end racism, I found some truth in that because we have to identify who is not being fairly treated and so if there was no mention of race we would not have the statistics to show inequality.