Philosphy and Race

Although I would never have thought before that philosophy could deal with race, I learned through the readings for my Race and Ethnic Conflict class that it can deal with it, not necessarily the subject of philosophy, but how philosophy teachers were the majority mentioned in the readings for that class to be teaching those types of classes. It makes a lot of sense to me now, because the teachers in the readings were talking about how to justify and argument in a class like that when things get heated and emotional, and how a person can realize how unfair they are being, and more than that, how what they are saying is racist when they realize what they are saying when they are arguing with another has no premises at all to be backed up with. Through this they often times realize what meaning what they are saying holds and are able to become a better person because of it.