Race power of an illusion pt3

The 3^rd installment of Race the power of Illusion was about how people think that they can find out every thing that they need to know just by looking at them. When you are thought of was black Asian or even Latino you are never as good as being white. Btu the truth is that race has no power, it is only an illusion. When you come to the U.S you are looking to be able to fit in and have a place for your family to live. Immigrants have always had it hard here in the U.S, they work the hardest jobs which are usually the ones that have the most danger in them, mostly because they are seen as lazy, stupid, and promiscuous but they are also feared, for the reason that they are different. Back then they even had different classes of whites, such as Jews were not seen as white at first. Even more interesting you could go from being black in one town to being white in another just by crossing the border, it all depended on how much black ancestry you had. Btu the blacks were not the only ones who had it bad. A Japanese man named Takao Ozama wanted to become an American, stating that his skin was just as white as any white persons, but was ultimately denied because of “scientific” proof. An Indian man then went in with that scientific proof and was denied because they said that science did not matter. The same thing that they used to stop a Japanese man didn’t matter. With that begin said there is only one truth for being white. It is whatever they want it to be.

My thoughts on the video are that it is true, “whiteness” is only what Caucasians want you to think it is, they can change it in a heartbeat. This can relate to the Irish being thought of as savages at first and not white. This is also related to a question that had came up in class about why did they want to oppress people when they were trying to escape oppression(Caucasians) which we came to the ultimate answer of; they wanted the power and they were really scared of change, of something different. Why would they scare of the change? This is a very good question that I think I have the answer to, they were still in the assimilation of England, they were still used to seeing only people of pale skin so they got scared, especially when they saw that they were acting differently form them, so they then thought that they were better and that it was their duty to rule over these people. That is my answer to this question. That their minds were being controlled by fear.