Saturday morning after a long week of activism and service the leadership of Blue Heart had the opportunity to visit the Museum of Man for a private tour of the exhibit “Race: Are We So Different?”
THE EXHIBIT asks the questions:
Is race the color of your skin? Is it the texture of your hair? The shape of your eyes? Is it in your genes?
Is race even real?
Race: Are We So Different? explains in clear, helpful language the origins of race and racism, and helps us understand how to deal with them in productive, enlightening ways.
Most of what we think about race is based on myth, folklore, or assumptions unsupported by genetics or biology. No one is free of misunderstandings about race, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Visit the museum of man for an eye-opening look at human nature and biology. You’ll leave transformed.
The Museum of Man is a place where dialogue, learning, and exchange forge understanding and personal connections. That’s why — after an initial temporary exhibition — “Race” was permanently installed this award-winning exhibit created by the American Anthropological Society and the Science Museum of Minnesota.
Race is a wonderful platform to engage schools and teachers, the general public, and other groups, in feeling, thinking, acting, and reflecting on race and identity, and to raise awareness, build community, and positively impact the ways in which we treat each other.
Afterwards we sat down to discuss the issues of race and found that so many eyes were opened to both historical and current facts that help piece together and shape today’s world. Jeremiah Daughtry pointed out that “It wasn’t until the Bacon Rebellion that people started seeing each other as races… Rich white people turned everyone against each other.”
