thank you for being so brave and speaking up

you make a lot of good points

True

I can really agree with that

interesting!

I always wondered this myself as an immigrant. Some times it feels like people are driven by hate and all they want to do is chastise something just because it is different. I always felt so ashamed for the people of America when people bring up the topic of immigration. However, I am not saying let everyone in as an immigrant myself I know that is not possible. I am saying there should be a fair and just way to allow people to immigrant and allow them to become residents and citizens because I do not feel as though people who say we should just lock down our boarders and kick everyone out because that is just idiotic. I am so dumbfounded by the stupidness, racism, and irony I see in Americans. I think the best example of this was when that law was passed in California and the business owners were not allowed to hire people who were not here legally, and then we saw the results of there stupid mistake. There economy began to fall drastically and all the business owners who were ALL republican changed sides and they wanted to repeal the act or law, so they can regain there business. Stories like that warm my heart because people really do not know what illegal Americans contribute to this country. They contribute so much to our economy and I knew this before I went step foot into Sam Richards Soc 119. I will admit that people who come to America should learn english and should try to assimilate to the current American culture and should bring there own culture across the border. However, I do not think meeting someone who speaks poor english and victimize them is not an excuse. I truly wish I had an answer to this immigration issue but sadly I do not. I know i am more on the side of immigration and that is because I know the benefits of immigrants. I know how they are better workers than you and me, I am pretty Americanized. I hate how people treat immigrants period, whether they are here legally or illegally. It is like they are below you because they speak another language and most Americans just speak one. Wouldnt you be the dumb one since you only speak one language and the immigrant your making fun of speak two. I hate how ignorant people can be. I think the American public is afraid that immigrants will do to them what they did to Native Americans so long ago. They will come into there land and kill, rape, and steal there land and treat them like they treat Native Americans back then and now. I really think they have a fear of that. I remember when Barak Obama was first running for president there was a video of this town, which was predominantly white and they felt like if he was president they would treat them badly, he would treat them like they treated anyone who looked like a minority. It is ridiculous how crazy people can be sometime. They are pretty much admitting to there racism and there faults.

I was so ashamed when I heard all the data you presented. The original indigenous are the poorest in this country. I am not of white descent, but I just feel ashamed of how people can treat each other. Like I would expect it would be so disproportionate. It just proves what sam has been saying. This just proves that there is an invisible force that keeps people down and it prevents people from moving up in life. All the things that has been inflected is astonishing. I just do not want to believe this is true. worst of all we do not even think of t now. This is one of the biggest tragedy in American history. I really makes you realize the cruelty that people can inflict. This just reminds me of the holocaust and how people just stood ideally by as millions of jewish people and others were massacred. When we do not speak about things how can we make it better. We do not even learn about this and that is a big problem. We spend so much money on so many stupid things like war and corporate welfare and we can not go and help the first American citizens. I just find it mind boggling. I truly felt that black people and African Americans and Middle eastern people were so terrible abused. It crazy how a whole group of people can be oppressed and abused. How they have such high suicide rates. There lives are so bad that they can not take it. It takes a lot to bring people to the point where they break down and give up. they must have given up so much in there lives. I just want to know exactly how something this tragic could happen. There is no way this is a coincident. I can not believe no one played a part when a whole race is being driven to the brink of extinction. Plus, after all the abuse there families have faced it is so likely that there women will be victims of rape and abuse. One out of three women will be raped or be a victim of sexual assault. How can people not get angry. This is so upsetting how can this just go on like it is normal. I know the starting line is not equal but we are just starting at different points and the differences are so great. For some reason it is like someone is trying to erase the fact the people that immigrated here did not rape, steal, and kill for the land that our schools, work places, and homes stand on. I remember when Sam asked if someone came and killed and stole our land and they raised there families there for generations, when is the point where you say to let it go. when do you let go?

I think the twenty nine to one ratio in order to kill a target is astounding to think about. i always thought we should do whatever we can to protect civilians. But, then again I am not surprised. I think 29 as a acceptable lost is quiet funny. Who in particular is a acceptable lost. Does this number apply to Americans or is it just people of Iraq and Afghanistan. I mean to some people human life is expendable but I really think it is shameful that we put a price to a life. i know this is practical in a war but I can not help how I feel. However, I can see it from both sides. I wonder if there was a war at home how many people would be an acceptable lost. I have to admit I expected the number to be a lot higher. I think it should be bases on certain situation by situation. I think it should be determine depending on the threat of a particular target and the acceptable lost of lives should b determined by the number of people that are at risk of losing there lives because of this particular terrorist, insurgent, or what have you. I hate to think of the twenty nine lives because that is so heart breaking. I hate how we can take away from those people and just have them be nameless figures or numbers and there lives will go for nought. Most likely those twenty nine people have lives. They have family and friends who will have to live with their death and they will know that they were an acceptable death. I can imagine the pain they go through when they are at their loves one funeral and I can feel for them. I mean if my mom or brother fell into the twenty nine i would be so upset. I wonder how how much of American civilians America is willing to sacrifice, bt I can see at time its is for the greater good. I can also understand why they would assign a number to sacrifice for the greater good. I just hate the thought that we have it. But we are in a war and mostly innocent people are the ones that sacrifice the most and the women and children become displaced and refugees are the ones who will suffer the most. I hate how no one ever takes them into account. I wish we were a more understanding society but mist people are self centered and it is hard to figure out and get to know people who are on the other side of the world. It is hard to think things from a different point of view. If we can do that we will be able to understand each other and I think it would be harder to wage war against them.

I think that white people becoming a minority during the year 2050 will not catastrophically change America because I think by that time I think a lot of corporations and major companies will most likely still be white owned. However with the shift in majority will cause changes, because I think that people who are black, asian, hispanic, women, native american, indian, middle eastern, or what have will have more opportunity. I think think we will be able to truly make things equal. I think we can get rid of things like affirmative actions and we can get rid of racism, and the racist thoughts that has been instilled in you by your family and specific situations. when i say this i do not just mean white people, i am talking about black, hispanic, asian, and etc. There is racism in minority communities as well. We can truly feel like equals. I hope that we can live in a world little girls and boys just assume that they have a chose between a black and white doll they just ask to play with because it does not matter what color it is. I hope that one day when someone ask a little black girl which one is the good and bad doll. They just say I do not know there just dolls. I was hurting when I saw that video that sam richard showed us. When white people are in the minority I hope things will change but honestly I do not think that will happen. i think people will learn to seperate themselves in some other way.
i do think things like affirmative action will be around. I think it is going to be hard for white people to shift into minority status because they have been the power position for so long and people do not usually give up power willingly. I can understand that they would be uncomfortable or unwilling to accept this. I know a few white people who do not believe that would happen, and these people are not racist they are actually just all around good people but they still kinda find that uncomfortable.
I am not surprised by that because most white people would be unwilling to put themselves in a situtation where they are around by a large number of minorities. i am apart of nsbe, national society of black engineers, and shpe, society of hispanic professional engineers, (i am not hispanic by the way) and I ask some of my white friends who were engineers to join but they were very unwilling to join because they would probably be in a situation like that. They said they might feel unwelcomed and then I told them to come to a shpe meeting and I will be there and I am not hispanic, but they were still unwilling to come. They would just feel uncomfortable. when I hear peolpe say why we have racial centered organization I think about this situation because it is the same thing. Most organizations are mostly white especially at penn state, so as a minority if you go to a club or org meeting your probably going to be the only person of color and you might feel uncomfortable and i realized it is the exact situation.

To be honest I love seeing interracial relationships. It proving that despite the racist and evil people out there they are not affecting everyone. We are still progressing as a whole and just because of the knuckleheads, which is what Sam Richards would probably refer them as, and doing knuckle headed things. I love how interracial couples are the fastest growing racial couple. I feel as though that is great progress in a society where you could be harassed, assaulted, and be threatened with the risk of death just for looking at a white women. I think we are coming a long way from all that. When we see a interracial couple and a interracial baby it brings two different worlds in a way where you can not really classify each and separate each other. it eliminates that option and opportunity. People will not be able to separate themselves according by race or creed. we will be able to understand each other and will not feel as though we are so different than everyone else. we would not have to fear a certain race or group where we had to limit there options and opportunity whether it be subconscious and conscious. As a black man who has dated outside of there race can honestly say it is not an easy thing to do. Not only on my part but the girl as well. I do not want to appear as though I do not date black girls to but I have dated more asian girls and white girls compared to black girls. I remember one of my relationships I was dating an asian girl at the time, I did see that society was not as open to interracial couples as we would like to believe. Her parents did not want her to date a black person. they wanted her to date an asian or maybe even a black guy. I was still in high school so it was some perplexing emotions I had to bear. I kind of hated that. I was never discriminated so badly in the life. This really hurt me. No one has openly said that I can not do something because of the color of my skin. I never thought it would be a real issue but it was I had to deal with. The worst thing about I did not even really want to or did i know how too. I was not mad at my ex girlfriend or her family I was upset with society. Actually, for all of my interracial relationships except for one, my current one, race was always an issue. I just never met there parents because I really did not want to feel that awkwardness. I hated that. I did not want to acknowledge that our world and society was like that. When I met and first started going to out with my current girlfriend I really was delighted that race was not an issue for her family, in a way the kind of promoted it. she is white by the way. This kind of proved even though there ignorant people out their, there are kind and caring people too.