Blog Two

I found today's class interesting because we discussed many points about the reading Slave and Citizen.   I was intrigued by the upward mobility society had for African-American slaves back then and how it would contribute to the end of racism. Tannenbaum believed that racism would only end if the blacks would stop being black and if they were more like their white counterparts, but this is an interesting notion because race, a main factor in racism, would still exist. White would be the only race that would exist, but everyone being white is not the solution to racism. The elimination of race is the real solution. Race has no correlation to how people act or how they will be, so why is there so much emphasis based on it? We all live on the same planet, the pigmentation in our skin differs from region to region, so why does it matter what color we are? These are the questions Tannenbaum should be asking and answering.