I identify as black and white but I never personally thought about measuring myself through percentages. In my opinion, I do not understand the need to have a numerical representation of myself, but think it would be really cool to know what other racial categories that I might possibly fall under that I never knew about. I think the text does present a very valid question about being able to measure our race(s) without it being genetically measurable and honestly I would question how accurate these measurements would be.

I honestly thought that this was one of the coolest things I read on this site because I never realized that race classification varied among different places. I am interested in learning more about the other classifications and criteria around the world!

My attempt to use my sociological imagination of race, I can connect this portion of history to white privilege. I would describe white privilege as skin tone not being one of the things that makes their life harder. It is present in this text when it speaks about more opportunity availability for whites that were not available to blacks and is still prevalent today because unfortunately opportunities are still denied to some people because of their race and racial stereotypes .

Here it is evident that the way people in power were able to remain and sustain their power was by making sure that others stayed below them. After learning about Bacon's Rebellion, it seems that power and economy are the main forces that resulted in lawful segregation separating blacks from whites. In a different point of view, it is also an honorable example of when people join together without concern for each others differences, can be so powerful and a threat to people of higher power which has been proven true throughout multiple courses of history. During this time, It is so sad that power was prioritized over the freedom of the people and that this issue only escalated for years to follow