Response to "The Matter of Whiteness"

I think that what this is saying is partially true. No one thinks of being white as a race. Technically being white isn't a race. It's just the "color" of people's skin. Someone can have white skin but be a certain race such as Russian, Italian, etc. I think the reason people consider "white" as non racial is because it's the majority. White's are the majority therefore other races are considered the minority. Because white's are the majority no one sees them as a race but as just people like the essay says. Ofcourse all the races that make up the minorities are distinguished by race because they are set apart from the majority becasue of their race. When people are distinguished based upon their race it is because they are different than the norm and it's easy to tell them apart then. If a "black person" is addressed in an article or book or essay as a "black maid" or whatever, then one would naturally assume that the other maids or people in the household aren't black. If everyone was black they wouldn't need to address the one maid based on her race. I think it makes sense that white isn't considered a race. White is the ajority adn the only way to tell apart the majority from the minority is because of race. So other races are