Changing Our Race

After all our ancestors and parents did to help fight for social justice and teach us we should not treat others differently, racism and discrimination is still prevalent in 2013.  It’s not something we think happens on a daily but it does happen.  Even as a Americans we have the we’re better than everyone else mentality.  At the University of Akron a race changing booth was made to bring awareness about discrimination.  In this booth you have the opportunity to sit down and change your race with imaging software.  Instead of imagining you can visually know what you would like as African-American, Caucasian  Indian, Japanese, Arabian, or any other race you may think of.    Below is the link with comments of some of the students of the university. Do you think this booth would actually bring awareness about discrimination or would it only serve as a temporary purpose. Would anyone give it a second thought or forget about it as soon as the booth was removed or after they left the booth?  I think it’s something that would help bring awareness to the surface but I’m not sure its enough to  give people something to think about on a daily.

http://cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2013/02/07/dnt-photo-booth-changes-your-race.wjw.html

University of Akron hosts a kiosk where students can view their digital selves as different races. Affiliate WJW reports.