Race: The Power of an Illusion

I think that the guiding statement of this video is that race is an illusion. That there are no subspecies of humans, that despite our appearances we are basically all the same. The main argument is that whites have made the rule governing who could become a citizen and who was white. That being white in this country gives a person better opportunity and makes their homes more valuable. The video explains that there are “higher races” and “lower races” and the “lower races” had worse jobs that had lower paying, and because of this they lived in slums. It was said that they had these jobs because of their race.
The question is more about the housing part. In this it says that the property values in areas that blacks began to more into went down because of the blacks. However is it not possible that the values of the homes began to go down to prices that the black could afford and it was not the government’s property apprising laws that were racist but the people who did not hire the blacks for the well paying jobs.
I think that over all this was a very good peace that exposed another side of history that I had never heard about. I never knew that there was a time in this country when courts decided if one was white or not. It’s very interesting that the government spent so much time deliberating over something that these days seems so trivial. However it seems to me that this video pushed too hard to show the government in a racist light. Although I don’t deny that some of the laws were racially skewed, I don’t believe that all the laws were meant to be exclusively pro-white.