My response to Jacqueline's blog number 5

In my opinion, the simple answer to your question is no, this raceless nation remains even today to be idealistic and improbable. I agree completely on your comment about applications asking for race, I think it is wrong, and goes against that idea of equality that we have been striving for for years. But it goes beyond that, last year I was looking through my school's collection of scholarship applications and it is more than just asking for race, but there are applications that are only open to people of a specific race, and that is the way it is going to be. Even if we get to the point where we can remove race from applications and that sort of thing there is still the issue of stereotypes like you said, which in my opinion have an even smaller likelihood of ever going away. The first thing many people do upon meeting a new person is create this idea of who they are, despite knowing they should not do that, it happens anyway, and what is the most outward appearance to make that initial judgement off if not race? I simply feel that it is simply to far ingrained in our society at this point to ever realistically think that we can have a raceless nation. One can look at the leaders like Mandela, Gandhi, and King all one wants, but how can you take their movements as improvements to society when the other side of the spectrum is represented simultaneously by the leadership of Castro, Hitler, Jong-un, Stalin, and Putin? For each man who fights for that equal, ideal, raceless nation, there is a man pushing from the other side for the segregated and unequal life, and the media and modern technology makes sure we all know about it.


 'Raceless' to me goes beyond equality, and beyond stereotypes, I think that raceless is just to ideal of an image where not only are we all equal, but we are all one in the same. The day that someone can meet a new person and not see race, the day that one can sit at a table with everyone else and have no negative or positive thoughts based on appearance is the day that a raceless nation has arrived. However good luck with that when stereotypes and media are flushing your mind with all those thoughts that you are not supposed to have about other people. The only chance for a raceless nation is one in which there literally - not figuratively or theoretically - is no difference in race among humans.