"(from Lorde's - " Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference") Nobody wants to feel inferior nobody likes that feeling, there is nothing fun about being in the "lower group". So out of this undesirability of inferiority, comes the need for superiority, since we have been too well trained to see the world in such extremes. It presents itself as a choice you can either be superior or inferior there is no in between, no equals! And once this way of classification comes about, then a sense of equilibrium plays a big role. For every "lower" person, there must be a "higher" person in order to make this "lower" person know their place in accordance to the standard of being a "higher" person. Once we know our differences, we then "handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate."("Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference"-Lorde).
It seems as though so many folks spend a huge chunk of their life making sure they are in the right place, with their "group", however being in the "right group" is only an indiscrete way of holding onto that rope, saving them from their fears. Safety zones are comfortable, and that's about it they aren't exciting, daring, adventurous, or educational, they are simply the easier way to live life with a lot less hassles to deal with.
"The effort must be made to understand race as an unstable and "decenterered" complex of social meanings constantly being transformed by political struggle."("Racial Formations"-Omi & Winant) . To agree you can judge one by the color of their skin is completely wrong, because it says nothing about who the person really is. Yet, sadly enough "our compass for navigating race relations depends on preconceived notions of what each specific racial group looks like."(-Racial Formations - Omi & Winant).
