en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/760023 Comments by cis5102 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/letter-from-an-inmate__trashed/#IDComment69842441 This letter written by a lifer was very moving and shocking to me. I am the kind of person that likes to volunteer, work with kids and give back in any way I can to get a good feeling inside. Also, when I don’t do something as simple as not opening a door for someone, it weighs on my mind for at least the rest of the day and I think, “Why didn’t I do that?” I try and help others because I feel as if it is the right thing to do. This is kind of what the lifer began to explain through the first part of his letter about how an inmate was consoling another inmate who was his enemy because that is just what they do. Of course I am not perfect so I do not help people every chance that I am given. The lifer was explaining that inmates pretty much do help others any chance they can. It was fascinating how he explained the ways that they helped others who had been stricken by devastation and how much these devastating experiences really affected the inmates. It really is shocking how people “on the outside” are so busy with their daily lives, the daily life stressors and trying to do this and that between their jobs and their families that they just simply forget about these devastating disasters. Just like how Americans sort of forgot about the earthquake in Haiti, how 300,000 people died and even the pretty terrible state of the country before the earthquake hit. This particular quote by the lifer, “[Compassion] is the heart’s recognition of pain in another and the soul’s demand to provide succor,” is very humbling and deserves great reflection. Can you imagine that this man never graduated from high school but has more appreciation for life and other human beings that many of us highly educated peoples could ever wish! He explains compassion as if it is a knee-jerk reaction for him and why would anyone not provide compassion to someone who is in pain. I am not saying that since we are not in jail, we should all go down to Haiti tomorrow and any other country in need to help out. This lifer’s letter has just made me really believe that the first way we can show compassion is just by acknowledging these devastating events and reflecting on what is has done to Haiti, to the Middle East, any other country in such circumstances and how these people are feeling. We can just show sympathy by keeping these people in our thoughts and prayers (if we choose to do so), not taking the resources, wealth and family that we have for granted and just for thinking of these people when we let the little things in life bother us. Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:09:46 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/letter-from-an-inmate__trashed/#IDComment69842441 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/creating-terrorists__trashed/#IDComment69839505 This article actually made me feel sick to my stomach. When Sam did the Christian Invaders lecture the other day, it really made me put myself in the shoes of those people in the Middle East. With that being said, it’s disgusting that U.S. soldiers would offer this man money for each family member they had killed. Money obviously doesn’t make anything better and then to go and offer him a goat so that he feels as if he cannot take revenge on the United States. How would these United States soldiers feel if five of their civilian family members were killed by foreign soldiers? I may not agree with this war but I am behind our soldiers no matter what, but they really are going to try and make peace with this man through such ridiculous means! Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:44:26 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/creating-terrorists__trashed/#IDComment69839505 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/300000-whats-it-mean-to-us__trashed/#IDComment69835345 It really is crazy to see this tremendous devastation occur and most Americans not doing anything to help and even more moving on with their lives as if nothing has happened. Especially when they stated in the video that Sam posted about how these Haitian people will be living in these tent villages for years to come. The reality is that like someone stated in class, only doctors and non-profit organizations were going down these soon after the tragedy occurred. Today, it still is kind of hard to go down there and help out without being involved with an organization and finding a way to really change the terrible economy that Haitian are having to deal with right now. Maybe all most people know to do right now is give any extra money they can to the people of Haiti and encourage those people who can really make a change to down these to do so. Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:17:42 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/300000-whats-it-mean-to-us__trashed/#IDComment69835345 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/women__trashed/#IDComment68136145 Being a woman is a tough job. With appearance, it’s like a never-ending cycle of judging other women and being compared to other women. Personally, I am a pretty tiny person and people were always saying I was “too skinny” or even “anorexic-looking” but when I gained 10 pound last year after being sick for 3 months, people said I was fat. It was only a 10 pound difference and I went right from too skinny to too fat! I just feel like as a woman, there are so many pressures in the media through almost every magazine having pages upon pages of workout plans and exercises to tone this or slim that. Also, the majority of women in Hollywood are small and if they gain weight such as when Jessica Simpson did, jokes are made about them and everyone wonders what is wrong with the female that is causing her to gain weight. There are those occasional women in Hollywood like Beyonce who have beautiful curves but do you see any stretch marks on her body or any unwanted cellulite? Nope! Then on to larger women like Jennifer Hudson who has just lost her baby weight and is getting so much public attention for losing the weight. Everyone wants to know what women in the spotlight are doing to lose weight and how to keep it off, so these women endorse these “great weight loss diets,” teeth-whitening solutions, hair techniques and countless other products to complete transform who you are and become this Hollywood, plastic woman. It’s not even the sole fact to lose the weight for appearance reasons but for the pressure for women to have strong hearts and avoid getting preventable health problems. This is just yet another reason for women to get and stay fit. Someone in class was saying that men are so focused on appearance and that is why women have to be concerned with their appearance. Studies have found that this is not true at all and women actually think that men want them to be a lot smaller than they truly do when in fact men want women that are about average-sized. The pressure for women to look the way they do comes from those women closest to them or in close-proximity to them. Women are so judging of other women and I think they pick at every little flaw that another woman has just so she can feel better about herself. This is especially true of those women that you do not like in your life and you would rarely say, “Wow, she really looks great in that.” So we sort of create this problem for ourselves by trying to compare ourselves to other women and not just embracing the beauty that we have. “You don’t love a women because she is beautiful but she is beautiful because you love her.” Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:56:47 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/women__trashed/#IDComment68136145 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/what-might-be-the-second-step__trashed/#IDComment67491150 I think there is step two that is achieved through not endorsing any of these acts of slavery by not purchasing any of the goods made by slaves but I’m not sure how realistic it is for someone to truly achieve this. From the list that Sam put up that included all of the products that are obtained through slavery, I just feel as if it would be very hard for someone not to use any of these products. Maybe we just have to take baby steps. An example of a baby step would be how Sam only eats fair trade chocolate or one of my friends did not get a big rock for an engagement ring because she does not agree with the child slaves who mine diamonds. By taking these small steps to eliminate using certain products and informing others why you are doing this, it would make a huge difference in the end. Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:10:01 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/what-might-be-the-second-step__trashed/#IDComment67491150 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/what-if-we-got-rid-of-welfare__trashed/#IDComment66695196 I think a lot of people do misuse to welfare system and are more likely to be on welfare if they are born into the system. Also, you see people with food stamps in the grocery store but somehow they have perfectly manicured nails…funny how that is. The problem is that there are people who are born into poverty and try everything to better their standard of living, but many are addicted to drugs and/or alcohol, unemployed, single-mothers with multiple children. That is why the welfare system has implemented many restrictions in the last 10 or so years such as the recipients have to be looking for a job and cannot get money and aid for more than a set number of years and only one time in their life. At this point, I do not think there is a way to completely eliminate the welfare system but there is a lot that can be done to continue to improve it and limit the amount of money that is going to families and the total amount of money used in the welfare system. Fri, 9 Apr 2010 01:23:21 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/what-if-we-got-rid-of-welfare__trashed/#IDComment66695196 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/this-is-totally-off-the-hook__trashed/#IDComment66693444 Wow, I am so shocked by this story. I do not agree with the video games that involve killing and get into the hands of kids, but this is very different than that. There are really men out there that think it’s okay to play a game where the object is to rape a woman? It is not even that Japanese men created it because all different kinds of men are able to access it is since the game is uploaded on YouTube or such sites. That’s bullshit to say it is an outlet for people who fantasize about raping women because shooting games are not an outlet for adolescents and neither would these rape games if they got into the hands of adolescents. Rape is not a funny issue. It makes me livid that these games are directed at raping women because there is a much higher rate of women being raped everyday, but would also make me angry if women were playing this game and raping men. Fri, 9 Apr 2010 01:15:06 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/this-is-totally-off-the-hook__trashed/#IDComment66693444 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/i-really-want-to-know-also__trashed/#IDComment66691255 My thinking has absolutely changed due to Sam’s lectures, Lori’s books and the book on slavery that we read. My initial thinking before coming to this class was that I “didn’t see color” because my first crush was Korean, my first best friend was Mexican, my three best guy friends from high school are black, Mexican and Puerto Rican and my best friend in college is from Kazakhstan. Also, I am a Military brat so I have moved around a lot and have never had just all white friends. First of all, through Sam’s classes and the race relations group, I have learned that quite a few people at Penn State are from high schools that were mainly white with the percentage of white people up to almost 98% of the school. I did not realize that people really were not exposed to different races and cultures in high school. The next thing I realized through the stages that white people go through is that I absolutely see color, every day and every time I look at people, even though I have friends of color. Also, I realized where this anger towards white people who act racist comes from. Next, the part where he talked about how our president, congress and senators should be able to tell people “no” to all the demands that they request so that they do not have to tax us so much and that they can not ever satisfy all of these requests anyway. The biggest thing that Sam has done this semester is change my thinking from what I thought that black people have any equal chance to do well in all aspects of life, even if they come from the lower class or families in poverty, because they can get a good education, a good job and then improve their standard of living significantly. What Sam helped me realize is that African Americans do not have an equal chance to get into college, are discriminated against in jobs, are treated very unfairly in the criminal justice system and many just do not have the same opportunities to improve and will not due to where they start, that is likely where they will be as an adult. I really can’t believe that this guy says Sam hasn’t changed any of his opinions. I mean hasn’t he at least changed this guys way of thinking about periods and how it’s not so gross to talk about them after comparing a period to cutting your nails or your hair growing, and saying that you should have enough respect for your mother and/or sister to respect this normal bodily function. Sam has changed many more of my ways of thinking that I can’t even remember at the moment. Fri, 9 Apr 2010 01:01:43 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/i-really-want-to-know-also__trashed/#IDComment66691255 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/revisioning-the-revisioning-stage__trashed/#IDComment65568096 I grew up with about half of my friends being white and half being black, Mexican and Puerto Rican. So I was a little behind you and was still in the awakening stage when I got to this class. Then I quickly moved through the Awakening stage and am on into the Revisioning stage. Through Sam’s lectures, I have definitely begun to see the racial inequality that exists in the criminal justice system, the workplace, college admissions, etc. I also see the white privilege that I have experienced in life such as getting every job that I have ever wanted, and getting into the first college of my choice even with a high school GPA of about a 3.7 and average SAT scores. There are a lot of people of color in the United States that I am sure have higher SAT scores and GPAs than I do, and applied to Penn State but did not get in. I know there are other things that I have benefited from by being white that I haven’t even noticed. Maybe even when I only got a traffic violation for not following the traffic signals when I was speeding in a school zone, going 36 when the speed limit was 15 because the school zone signs were flashing after school, I may have experienced white privilege as oppose to someone of color who had gotten a ticket and points on their license for doing the same thing. This leads to white guilt seeing as how I benefit from these things solely because the color of my skin, even though others are much more qualified than I am. Then begins the anger towards white people who take advantage of these things, think that they deserve them just because they are white and show racism towards people of color. It really outrages me, especially when people in this very race class say racist things over the text program that Sam has enabled. Also, as Sam has said that it was just pure luck that white people were born into the family that they were and were born with white skin. Why does this make white people, particularly Americans, think that they are superior to all? I think this has to do with the fact that people are ignorant and don’t care to learn about the marvelous people and places from all over the world. I think the whole observation about how the first characters from Africa were lions and not people in Disney’s the Lion King is due to the fact that Walt Disney and many of the first writers of the Disney movies were white and in many of the movies where people of color were involved, white people were taking over their land for the most part. It is very sad though but hopeful that there is now a Disney movie with a black princess and hopefully there will be many more to come. Fri, 2 Apr 2010 15:50:54 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/revisioning-the-revisioning-stage__trashed/#IDComment65568096 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/how-can-we-ever-win__trashed/#IDComment65431771 I completely agree with the whole LL Bean catalog nonsense because I know plenty of black people who dress like those people in the catalog were dressing and my friends wear shorts when it’s warm out. They may not be as short as the khaki’s that the one black man was wearing but my friends wear khaki cargo type of shorts all of the time during the summer and many even have kind of a “preppy” kind of dress but do not have that kind of personality, they just like to dress in clothes that fit them and look good. Also, with the whole Jesse Jackson thing, I don’t understand what Sam was saying either. I mean he’s explained before that you’re going to identify with your own group because it’s familiar and comforting but that doesn’t mean that people are not trying to come to a common ground and improve this gap between black and white people. Fri, 2 Apr 2010 04:08:51 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/how-can-we-ever-win__trashed/#IDComment65431771 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/nothing-about-the-census-is-easy__trashed/#IDComment65424901 Just like one person said, they try to make to census as inclusive as possible but there is no way that they will be able to satisfy every person. About the Negro issue, I can see why it may bother some African or African American people and that’s why the creators of the census have decided that they will eliminate this Negro from the 2020 census. I’m not sure why the Hispanic woman was so outraged about negro being on the census but maybe it just shows that there needs to be a lot more education done about what the census measures and why the do such things as leave negro on there for the older Africans who identify themselves in this way. Communities also need to educate members of the community how important filling out thing tiny paper really is, just as they said that over $400 billion are allocated to communities through census collection data. A very important point that was brought up is that white people are looking for what we should call black people so what is listed in the census should really be what the majority of black people identify themselves as. Fri, 2 Apr 2010 03:43:30 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/nothing-about-the-census-is-easy__trashed/#IDComment65424901 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/in-her-own-words__trashed/#IDComment64242295 Wow, what an awesome thing for you to say to women. If only more men would see things like you and Sam do, instead of through these lenses that periods are just disgusting and should not be talked about. It is very physically and mentally draining and the worst part about it is that you even feel the side effects the week before you get your period with acne and such. Also, we absolutely keep this world going and I think that if men had periods that the world would not be run by men because they would have to put everything on pause every 28 days. Thanks so much for being a real man! Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:02:38 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/in-her-own-words__trashed/#IDComment64242295 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/what-are-all-of-you-thinking-about-asians__trashed/#IDComment64241487 This is a great topic that we really do not focus on much in class. My roommate from last year is from Kazakhstan and she speaks Russian but looks more Asian. She is also in an Asian Sorority here at school so obviously she classifies herself as Asian, as do other Asian Americans. Knowing about how she would relate more to Russians than Chinese or Japanese people and that people in Russia do not like the people from Kazakhstan since they declared their independence from Russia in 2001, this topic really becomes confusing. I know that this makes everything all the more confusing but is just shows how Asians find it hard to really relate to this class and would not really fit in with the black and brown group or white group. Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:56:16 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/what-are-all-of-you-thinking-about-asians__trashed/#IDComment64241487 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/in-her-own-words__trashed/#IDComment64240001 Maybe “bleeding” was not the politically correct term for a women’s menstrual cycle but I believe that Sam was right on with everything he said about women and how a women’s period really is a gift because it makes her fertile and therefore allows her to give birth. I honestly wish more men had the same view as Sam on periods. I know many women throughout their life have heard, “Ew, that’s gross. Don’t talk to me about your period,” from a man before. Yes, I agree that periods are not the most pleasant time for women but it is not like we enjoy them any more than you do. Men act like they are so bothered by the fact that a women is on her period for many reasons that range from they can’t get any, to not wanting to hear about bleeding and even to “having to deal with women when they’re PMSing.” Do you think we would choose to have our periods if there was an alternative way to ovulate and bear a child? Hell no! And men act like they are the victims when women are on their period. How do you think we feel? Do we just love the cramps that come along with a period? Do we just love that as Sam says, we have to plan out things to make sure that we’ll be able to use the bathroom and our period will not interfere with anything? Do we love how our emotions go from one end of the spectrum to the complete opposite end? I’m pretty sure no woman wants any of these things but it’s what we have to go through in order to bear children and keep the human population going. And we should be ashamed of having our periods even though it enables us to participate in the greatest thing on this earth? We should all be proud of having our periods! As Laurie said in her play, “My period comes likes the tide,” and it is what it is. Another great point that Sam brought up is how if men had their periods, there would be vast accommodations and men could be able to flip out and the reasoning behind it would be that they’re on their period. First of all, a man could never last through the pains and miserable times of a period, much less childbirth. Also, when women are crabby and unpleasant, men get pissed and do not accept the excuse of, “I have my period.” This is such a big problem that women don’t feel comfortable talking about their periods and even feel ashamed of their period. Men, if it weren’t for women and their periods, you wouldn’t be on this earth so let us talk about it as freely as we want. Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:45:13 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/in-her-own-words__trashed/#IDComment64240001 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/women-and-sports__trashed/#IDComment62714382 I actually saw this story on the news the other day and think it is very cool. If she’s qualified for this high school football coaching job, which she seems like she is because of her own experience with playing football and her passion for the game, then I think she deserves it. Many people may find this kind of bizarre because women are not really involved in the game of football, especially playing it because women are seen as physically weak and as she stated that women’s football is fairly new compared to the history of men playing football, but women are becoming sports announcers so there’s no reason that they cannot coach a football team if they are qualified and willing to do so. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:47:33 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/women-and-sports__trashed/#IDComment62714382 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/is-anyone-else-getting-this-stuff__trashed/#IDComment62713374 The thing that I got most out of reading Laurie’s book is actually this point about race relations. I went to a required race relations group last semester for HDFS 301 and really enjoyed the experience. It was a place where you could generally say what you were feeling about relations pertaining to race, in a very open environment and not feel judged. It was also a place where I learned so much about what others thought about race, especially what black and brown women thought. A couple of weeks later I got an email stating that Sam’s SOC 119 class was kind of a continuum of this open race talking session so I decided to join the class. Then when reading Laurie’s book, it gave me a whole new perspective on the race relations meeting. I did not state above that when I went to the group, I was the first, second or even sixth person to talk because I was the last person to talk. I also did not realize how just like Laurie and Sam have said, that when I went into the room I sat back and waited for the black and brown people to talk. I waited for these “experts” to talk and watched what I said so that I did not offend them. Also, I felt out the other white people in the room and listened to their stories and how the felt on race before I shared. When one white girl shared that her boyfriend was racist and she wasn’t racist but didn’t have any black or brown friends, I felt like I was in the clear because my best guy friend is black, I have always been good friends with Mexicans and blacks, and even dated a mixed (half white, half black) guy for a couple of months. Through reading Laurie’s book and attending Sam’s lectures, I have learned how this perception about being in the clear to talk just because I had black friends was completely wrong. I still had and have so far to go in learning about other races and need to really listen to what these people are saying about their experiences in life just for having a different color of skin. Also, I need to share with them my perceptions about race and how I am very open to race so that they can learn something too because they really are not the experts either. Luckily through the things I have learned in Sam’s class and the aspects of race relations that Laurie has pointed out in her book, I will be able to go into my race relations group in a few weeks and jump right into the conversation without having fears about what others will think, but most of all I will really be able to hear and listen to what others are saying. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:38:43 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/is-anyone-else-getting-this-stuff__trashed/#IDComment62713374 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/what-happens-to-multiracial-people__trashed/#IDComment62711016 I do agree that this is very confusing. He said once that Moroccan people would be considered “white” but when I talk to my friends from Morocco, they would consider themselves African before they ever considered themselves white since Morocco is in northwestern Africa. I think like you said, your friend should just answer whatever question or relate with whichever group they feel most comfortable with or answer both questions and relate to both groups. Being that your friend is mixed, I think they are in a very unique and cool situation since they can in fact relate with both groups! Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:17:53 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/what-happens-to-multiracial-people__trashed/#IDComment62711016 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/a-long-long-way-indeed__trashed/#IDComment59782873 I agree with all of your points about how these slaveholders viewed black people. They absolutely would be enraged that black people were not only succeeding, but coming up to the same level as white people or even exceeding the level of white people. Also, how you incorporated the fact that it is still going on in the world today and will continue on for a long time. It is crazy to think about this, especially because how far our country has come. Many of us can’t even imagine that people are still being exploited through means of sex, labor, etc. to obtain money. It’s great to recognize the advances we have made in the United States but then we also need to consider how slavery is a current and growing problem in many other countries around the world. Thu, 4 Mar 2010 20:09:41 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/a-long-long-way-indeed__trashed/#IDComment59782873 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/are-whites-the-only-people-willing-to-humiliate-themselves__trashed/#IDComment59769367 I’m not sure why the Bachelor or the Bachelorette is predominately white, being that it is an absolutely wrong representation of the United States population. One thing I do want to bring into view is something that Sam said before in class. He said that parents want their children to marry within their culture and/or race, and further explained that there is nothing wrong with this. This may explain why these people are mainly white and it might even be a requirement that is stated by the person who is going to be the next bachelor or bachelorette, for the producers of the show when they are choosing perspective people to be on the show. Another fact about this show to consider is who is viewing it. The thing is that when a show like this was first introduced to the American population in 2000, through an earlier version called, “Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire,” the show was an absolute flop. The point of the show was for women to try and persuade multi-millionaire Rick Rockwell that they would be his perfect wife, that perfect women that he had always been looking for. The chosen bride would then receive a $35,000 engagement ring, Caribbean cruise honeymoon and a new car but Rick Rockwell did not receive anything because, of course, he was already a millionaire. Viewers thought very poorly of this reality show. It is not much different at all from the current day reality shows of The Bachelor or the Bachelorette that started only two short years after “Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire,” and these later shows have a ton of viewers. Actually, the Bachelor from 2 seasons ago, Jason Mesnick, chose one woman and then soon dumped her for another woman from the show. Also, last season a man named Wes came on the show even though he had a girlfriend throughout the time that he was on the show, and a woman from the current season that just ended, had an affair with one of the producers. So this later version of a reality marriage show is not any better than the ones that came before and the ones on VH1 or MTV that are still currently generating. These shows are not exemplifying the desired attributes of a marriage when the main person on the show is kissing and/ or having sex with multiple contestants on the show. That is not showing the honesty and fidelity that one seeks in a marriage. Also, the bachelor or bachelorette is saying that they have fallen in love with multiple people…that won’t fly in a monogamous marriage. Maybe the largest group of viewers is white women and that is another reason for why there are mainly white men and women on the show. Or maybe white people are just the only people that are buying into this ridiculous show and how one person can date up to 25 people at once and then live “happily ever after” with just one of them. Thu, 4 Mar 2010 18:10:48 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/are-whites-the-only-people-willing-to-humiliate-themselves__trashed/#IDComment59769367 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/whats-with-the-theme-parties__trashed/#IDComment59682913 I agree with all of the previous comments that say they're not sure where this idea comes from that the parties are themed towards black stereotypes. My roommate and I had a "fiesta" that some may consider as "geared towards racial Mexican stereotypes." But we were not trying to make fun of Mexican people, or for that matter any Hispanic people. It also was not just a bunch of white people wearing sombreros and making jokes about Mexican people. Yes, white people were there, but there were also Mexicans, Moroccans, Asians, Indians and African Americans. I’m not sure why people, I guess mostly white people, have themed parties but we decided to do it just to change things up. It was a fun reason for us to buy decorations and a cool new outfit I guess. Thu, 4 Mar 2010 04:32:30 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/whats-with-the-theme-parties__trashed/#IDComment59682913