African American Analysis

The two answers that I found most surprising from the quiz, resulted from these two questions: Blacks are better runners, and Asians are better at sports like gymnastics, for example, due to their size and reflexes. The reason I found these questions most surprising was because I expected those two questions to be somewhat false, since they seemed stereotypical to an extent. For the first question, it was surprising because I thought it was more of a myth that African Americans were the better runners; I thought it all had to with the person themself and their stamina. I was surprised to read that it was all in the muscles. It was interesting that the quiz mentioned that African Americans have more ‘fast twitch’ muscle fibers that helps them

White. Other., very briefly. The whole excerpt starts out with the author, Marks, questioning why someone would refer to themselves as black, when they’re really half. And he later delves into specifics of the whole structure of race from a biological and cultural view, while describing the negatives of how humans view one another due to the color of our skins. From what I personally perceived from the article, is I think Marks is trying to state that despite our differences of our skin color and where we originate from; we should not be treated differently by other humans since we’re all the same species. I think another point the author was trying to make is race is seen as too much of an importance and shouldn’t be a big concern in our society, but sadly it is since we stereotype and make judgements. What I found most interesting is the way he brought up examples to explain his view points. The example I really thought was clever when he stated that we would not fight because we all have different hair colors, eye colors, heights, etc. I really liked that one because it’s very true and it brings up a point that we should not be judging by race since it’s a trivial just like the examples mentioned. Another example that also made me think is when he mentioned mice not having to worry about being a specific type of mouse because animals don’t see the difference since they’re the same species. It illustrated a point that I agreed with it,