I am totally with you about the trading schools segment. It was so disheartening to watch and see all the inequality going on just miles from one another. No one does ever talk about how to bring about social equality it is a little taboo in our society today because I think no one wants to talk about what caused it and what perpetuates the inequality in our society. The percentages were even more depressing to think that at one school almost all of them are going to graduate where at the other less than half will. I think it also makes you think about what if half of my graduating class did not graduate and how growing up around that would have affected me.
I would think that it is so unfair but life is not fair. AA was made to combat institutional discrimination and probably inequality. I think it is hard to watch the video because some people want to have the opportunities and try to succeed in life and you see that them doing there best but is not enough because they are not given the same resources. I think in an ideal world everyone would have the same opportunities and resources available in order to succeed in life and then it would be an even playing field. I guess it is just so disheartened when you realize how the world really works and how things can just never be equal.
The idea was that society needed to help get rid of the man made obstacles that others have placed in front of some people to stop them on their journey to get ahead. It also is hard to hear that affirmative action does not really help to way it was intended to help. The end goal of what affirmative action really helps is the white males but those are not the people that need to help. The Harper high school video was hard to watch cause it shows a lot of inequality in the same city. It is hard to think that people in a school have a little chance to graduate because a lot of there circumstances. I think it makes people just see how the world really is and what is going on out there.
Affirmative Action. Words pretty much every college student has heard once but probably more in their academic careers. Words we will probably hear again in academia and the work force. I think it is a strange thing to talk about this subject because when it was created it was a while back and for some necessary reasons. I think it is hard to think about how people will never be equal. I think of course in some eyes there is a reason for this because some people are seeing things from a racist perspective but if thinking about it from some people do not want to aspire to be everything they can. I think it this then that they cannot be equal to others because they do not want to try to be equal to others. I definitely understand the professors view of being a libertarian in believing that people should be able to do want they want I think as long as it does not do harm to others. I never knew that affirmative action benefited women mostly especially not white women. I think when affirmative action was created it had the write idea because inequality was so prevalent in our society.
I defiantly agree with you about this being the most interesting lecture so far. I too am very interested in multiculturalism issues because I think they are so interesting. I think it is something that affects as everyday being involved with so many other cultures. I have never thought about LGBT issues as the Civil Rights movement but I definitely see how it relates to it. How it is inequality in the general sense and how it involves overcoming inequality. I think it is a hard issue more than others because it starts to come to peoples beliefs and they start to feel more about this issue.
I think children just need to be loved and unless everyone else in the world is willing to take all the children in the U.S. that need adopted in than they should not be aloud to say anything about if people should be aloud to adopt. I think that children are worse off staying in the system for the rest of there lives where they aren’t receiving as much attention as they should or the love they need. There is a lot of inequality in the world still but this one upsets me because I think that it is great when people want to adopt children that otherwise would not have any kind of family.
In the general sense even if I do or do not believe in homosexuality I still think people are people and I do not think others should ever have the right to judge them. They are still people and even if you do not believe in it because moral reasons that is no right to hate people. I think anyone who can past proper background checks should have the right to adopt. I think that children are better off in a loving home with two of the same sex parents or just one who happens to be gay than no parents and growing up in the system. I do not believe this is okay because that is the government judging people lifestyles and not the character of the person they are inside.
I think this is a hard topic to discuss. I think it is hard to talk about this topic with an unbiased view. People including myself start to bring emotions, beliefs, and what they where raised with when even thinking about this topic especially in today’s world. I guess it is hard to look at anything without bias and just see it for what it is. I never just think of homosexuality as people just loving whom they want to love. I am not saying what my personal beliefs are because I think I am trying to see this subject as unbiased as possible. But I do not like the term gay lifestyle because that is like saying there is a straight lifestyle. That is like saying all straight people are the same, which they are not and they obviously do not all lead the same lifestyles. We obviously have seen the different lifestyles people in general lead so why would there be a gay lifestyle. What would it even entail if there were a gay lifestyle. People in general lead such varieties of lives why would people think just because others are gay there lifestyle would the same. I think that is just an even smaller minded view of things because people generalize people.
I do not think I even really thought about what Dr. Richards said that Black people should feel guilty. I do not understand why they even would feel guilty because a majority of black people were not even here during the genocide of Native Americans. I totally agree that parents teach their children racism.. Some probably more subconscious than others though small actions and comments. I think parents really need to address how they act around their children and what they are really teaching them by either talking to much about racism or not talking enough. Obviously this problem goes along with what all older people are teaching the younger generation.
I think it is so ludicrous that people inside my own race the colored race would be even more racist at times than white people. The colored children said that white was good and black was bad. The truth is those children were colored and obviously someone had to teach them that since they are so young. I think this shows how race relations need to be worked out within the colored community so there is no racism in one’s own race.
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