"A Different Mirror" and "Race Matters"

The article "A Different Mirror" starts off with a positive statement that race has been a social construction that has hsitorically set apart racial minorites from European immigrant groups. It goe on to say construction does not accuraltey reflect the rich and complex mosaic of American diversity. it also talks about the different groups that make up the American population: the Natives, Africans, Jews, Irish, Asisans, Latinos and Middle Easterners. But when i think about the reading "A Different Mirror", by Ronald T. Takaki, it takes me back to when I dad to see and deal with racism, discrimination, face to face. Never in my whole life would I thought I would have heard the words "you people act like animals", this day age. That was the day I realize racism, discrimination, and prejudice still exist it's just hidden, and wished I was in a different mirror and had a different status. But the fact is we can't change who we are and what we will become regardless of raical division saparating us.

The article "Race Matters" is not just another article summing up of race relations in this country. One of the main reasons I like this article from Cornel West, is because he does not allow his membership in the African American, race to hide his view/views. West ignores the most common concept of political correctiveness and speaks freely. Race Matters is an insight into many of the stereotypes, mistaken notion, and clashes caused by race. By bringing to light the inadequacies and failing of all races, and the people involved in this difficult situation called race. Cornel West accomplishes his task by the examination of race from multiple angles, and discussing race in a historical, social, sexual, and political sense, he is able to produce some uncommon assessment on the irregularly state of race relations in the world today. This what I got from the two readings "Race Matters, and "A Different Mirror.