Has my opinion on illegal immigrants changed? Yes. Because before the talk with Basam I honestly didn’t know anything about illegal immigrants. The only thing I knew was that they had gotten here by breaking the law and that our country was/is easy to break into. But talking about “how and why we should stop illegal immigration” brings a lot of things to my mind.
This raises an interesting moral conflict, because although illegal immigrants have broken the law, they are often forced to do so out of a desperate need to survive and support their ­families. Why is immigration considered such a large problem in our country? A common concern is that illegal immigrants put financial burdens on our schools and hospitals, and often do not pay their share of taxes. Another concern is that illegal immigrants take jobs away from American citizens. Which in fact is not true.
To stop illegal immigrants from invading our country we must eliminate the reasons people enter the U.S. illegally. Primarily they come for jobs. Many businesses will hire cheap labor so they can sell their products at lower prices and stay competitive. Employers who hire illegal immigrants benefit at others’ expense. They contribute to the problem by creating a demand for illegal immigrants. We need to make them responsible for their actions and at the same time find ways to solve their problems. And If employers did not lure illegal immigrants here with jobs, then they may be less likely to try to get ­into our country illegally. On the ­positive side, there would be more jobs for legal citizens and only people who pay taxes would use our schools and hospitals. In order to put this type solution into full effect the government would have to much increase and enforce the penalties for employers who hire illegal immigrants.
If employers do not hire the cheap labor of illegal immigrants, they will have to hire American citizens who will probably demand a higher wage. As a result, products will be more expensive and consumers will pay higher prices. In response to this problem, the states should form committees with the brightest people in the immigration and economics fields to work with ­employers to help solve their employment needs and mitigate the effects on the economy. The committees would work with legislators to draft laws so businesses do not have to hire people illegally in order to compete.
The topic on illegal immigrants opened my eyes and made me realized what problem other people deal with. And it made me want to help. Even with the simple and small things. Overall my opinion about the illegal immigrants is nothing but positive, in my eyes they are some of the strongest and bravest people I know.

When I first read this question the first thing that popped up in my head was the Brown case and how it wasn’t that long ago. And that even thou it wasn’t that long ago, we had still come so far.That inspired me to do some research to see exactly how far we’ve come. So what I found out was that today, one-third of black students attend school in places where the black population is more than 90 percent. A little less than half of white students attend schools that are more than 90 percent white. One-third of all black and Latino students attend high-poverty schools (where more than 75 percent of students receive free or reduced lunch); only 4 percent of white children do. The research shows and proves that things have been better. But what caught my eye was that in 1990 more than 40 percent of black students in the South were attending majority-white schools. But in today’s schools’, fewer than 30 percent of students do, which was roughly the same percentage as in the late 1960s, when many districts were still refusing to implement 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education.
I had also found that a lot of southern schools were recently dealing with desegregation again. This made me mad because I thought that we as a country had come to a place where everyone was academically equal!!!!!! I mean come on! (In the next paragraph I used what I had read in an article, to base my opinion on that.)
I find it very interesting that during the Bush years there was no civil rights enforcement to speak of. The Office for Civil Rights and the Justice Department were in the hands of active critics of civil rights law who gave top priority to rolling back its requirements. Though the Obama Administration has taken no dramatic steps in this area, there are now officials who are going to look much more carefully at potential violations. Most of the southern school systems where desegregated had resurfaced, were not under court orders but under Office for Civil Rights plans negotiated under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Many of those districts have been unilaterally changing those plans in ways that increase segregation without gaining the permission of federal officials, tacitly assuming that they had the freedom to do that. They do not. They could be required to reverse those actions and take additional steps to make up for the harm they have caused. If school districts systematically take actions that have the impact of creating segregation and they reject alternatives that would produce integrated schools, they are engaging in the kinds of actions that triggered far-reaching desegregation orders in many of the schools. To close my blog I just want to say that before this question I thought we were good with academic segregation but now I disagree!!!

WITH AN OPEN MIND I REMEMBER WHEN HE CONSIDERED RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT - IT WAS EMBARRASING AS AN AMERICAN TO LISTEN TO THE NOISE. I HAVE NO REASON TO LIE AND I THINK BEING OPENLY INSULTED BY PEOPLE WHO I THOUGHT KNEW ME SIMPLY BECAUSE I WAS BLACK I HAD TO HAVE VOTED FOR HIM, BECAUSE I WAS BLACK I MUST WANT A HANDOUT OR WAS GONNA PULL THE "RACE CARD". PLEASE DON'T GO THERE AND TELL ME "I DON'T KNOW" WHAT'S GOING ON,.. I'M CURRENTLY LIVING IT. IF I HAVE AN ARGUEMENT BECAUSE I BOTHERED TO READ THE REASONS BEHIND SOMETHING HE DOES,.. I'M LABELED BECAUSE "OF COURSE" IGNORING WHAT LOGIC SAYS, THE ADMINS STATEMENT SAYS, AND WHAT HAS COME BEFORE ,... OBAMA IS "REALLY" HERE TO DESTROY AMERICA. HE'S NOT THE ONE SCREAMING ABOUT HIS BIRTH CERT, HE'S NOT THE ONE SCREAMING INCOMPETENCE AND THEN SLINKING OFF WHEN REALITY FORCES PEOPLE TO SHUT UP OF BE BRANDED MORE OF A FOOL, HE'S NOT THE ONE BEING "INDECISIVE" WHEN THE CASE EVERYTIME HAS BEEN THE PEOPLE SQUAWKING NOT HAVING THE FULL PICTURE. DIVISIVE? ONLY IN JUST BREATHING IN THE WHITE HOUSE. IT'S BEEN PROVEN THREE TIMES IN THE LAST 6 MONTHS THAT IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT HE DOES - THE NOISE WILL CONTINUE, BECAUSE TOO MANY ARE TOO WEAK TO TOLERATE HIM IN THE WHITE HOUSE. PLEASE - THREE YEARS - THE PROMISED DESTRUCTION OF THE COUNTRY, THE SHREADING OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE ENSLAVEMENT OF WHITE PEOPLE HAS STILL NOT HAPPENED. WHAT HAS HAPPENED IS THE OUT OF CONTROL UNEMPLOYMENT IS UNDER CONTROL,.. THE FALLING STOCK MARKET IS HIGHER THAN IT WAS IN 2008, THE ECONOMY IS ON THE MEND IN SPITE OF THE AMOUNT OF HEEL DRAGGING BY THOSE WHO CAN'T HACK HIM. SMALL BUSINESSES HAVE STARTED HIRING IN SPITE OF THE TALKING HEADS CLAIMING ONLY "GOVERNMENT JOBS" ARE AVAILABLE. CORPORATIONS ARE DECIDING TO STAY IN OUR COUNTRY WITH EXCEPTION OF CAR COMPANIES WHO CAN NO LONGER AFFORD THE SILLINESS OF THE UNIONS. HALF OF HIS "POLICIES" ARE NOT EVEN "POLICIES" BUT "SPIN" PUT ON WHAT PEOPLE NEED TO BELIEVE WHAT HE'S DOING. BOTTOMLINE: THE NOISE STARTED BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT,... WHAT'S THE EXCUSE?
IN MY OPINION I HONESTLY BELEIVE THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS DONE A LOT IN IMPROVING RACE RELATIONS! THERE WILL ALWAYS BE PREJUDICE PEOPLE OUT HERE...BUT IF WE KEEP THE LINES OF COMMUNICATIONS OPENED, WE WILL NOT HAVE THIS PROBLEM A FEW YEARS FROM NOW. PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT PEOPLE LOVE TO LIVE IN THAT BUBBLE, AND WHEN THEY ARE SUBJECTED TO SOMETHING DIFFERENT IT IS HARD FOR THEM TO ADJUST, WHEREAS IF THEY WERE BORN IN A WORLD OF TOGETHERNESS EVERYTHING FALLS INTO PLACE!

Coming into Sam’s class today I didn’t know what to expect. But one I thing for sure I knew It was going to be a fun and interesting class. And just as I predicted, the video he showed containing the doll study in fact had been interesting, but not for the obvious reasons. Interesting thing here is why there are only 2 dolls offered. Could it be misleading or even racist to test only black children here rather than just children, and only Black or White dolls, what about the whole gamut of color they interact with in their everyday lives?? This May have been a valid test in the 50/60/70s, but is it valid today?
I think this test says more about a Subculture and mindset that we are hoping will disappear, but everyday help to perpetuate it with myopic depthless test like this one here. Obvious things come to mind here like self-esteem, Media influence… but what will we do about it? Point fingers? Who knows what mundane reasons these kids have for their choice? Speaking for the inner city black kids in my town/neighborhood this test is as good as a trick question. Of course the worry here is that these kids represent a small slice of how we black people see ourselves, and are we our own worst enemy. Yes! but we can only realize and address this as individuals ,not as “black people” as a whole ,and not by blaming the media.
As an African American woman, I know how diverse and dynamic other black folks are because I live the experience every day. Why is it so shocking that white kids embrace more stereotypes? We often stereotype what we don't understand. We are all guilty of stereotyping other cultures, regions, religions, etc. If a white child's only exposure to black people is popular culture, then we can't be surprised when they believe we are all dumb thugs, hookers, rappers, ball players and criminals. White children being more “stereotypic in their responses” seem to be a direct product of their environmental influences.
As our society becomes more diverse and children are exposed to other cultures in the classroom and workplace more often, tests like these will become less and less relevant. Instead of focusing on this notion of white entitlement and making white kids less racist, perhaps this should be a wakeup call for African Americans to look at the images we present of ourselves through the mainstream media and the type of portrayals of ourselves that we support. I'm not saying that it’s entirely our fault that white the children in this video view us, but it is partly our responsibility to be more than what society and the media thinks us to be.

What makes a person white? And what makes a person really white? In my honest opinion I don’t think there is a way to pin point it. I mean just by how a person speaks or how their physical stance appears, are reason of why people stereotype them for being the typical of their race. When I say “oh that person is really white” I say that because its because of the way their talking and the way the present themselves. The tone of their voice is usually very preppy and speak with very annunciation. Another thing that makes a person very white is the level of high maintenance. The fact that they think every one should be on their level and should wear and do the things they do. And if a person doesn’t, they’re not worth their time.
The clothes they wear counteract with my opinion because the clothes are usually very preppy and the stance in the clothes is as well. The physical stance the person has is usually very business like. By business I mean very punctual and their spine is nice and strait and their head is held up high. The difference between the African American and White is the typical stereotype of an African American male is he wears his pants larger than normal size and the typical White male wears his pants just right on his waste. Also, a really white person has a very simple wardrobe consisting of plain shirts, button ups, no design/graphic shirts, they’re just very clean cut. There’s really no distinct way to separate a very white person from anybody else. It pretty much depends on what they’re personality is, anybody can be high maintenance or have a very simple wardrobe.
White females are normally seen as having high pitched, perky voices. Some of them can be loud when around when they’re around African Americans while others pursue the average white female being quiet and they keep to themselves. When I say a female is very white its the way they present they’re language when they speak. The way they put their selves together for others to view them is another way of making a person white. White people have a way of treating others different either good or bad. Some people treat people with great respect to show how respectable they also are. There are also others who can be rude and disrespectful because they feel like some people around them are not worthy of being treated any better then them . The level of respect they have for others can be low, they like to act as if they are above any and everyone they are around.

The topic in lecture today was very interesting. I mean I come from the city of Pittsburgh and I've seen people who are homeless, people who live off of welfare and people who live pay check to pay check. Like Tammy I've known people who work at fast food restaurants for their entire life and live off of it. But what I haven’t seen is the people who live off those paychecks, live in such horrible and discussing places. A part of me feels real sympathy for Tammy and the other part of me feels anger.
The part of me that feels sympathy over weights the part of me that feels anger. I feel sympathy for her because of she actually works for what of the little she has. Unlike some of the people I know who have welfare and don’t really need it. Those are the people who somehow still work at a part time job and still collect unemployment. I hate those people because they make it hard for the people similar to Tammy. She lives in a horrible living situation, walks 10 miles to work, and has 4 for children and she’s supporting them all with a biweekly check from Burger King. The fact that she doesn’t qualify for welfare makes me mad because people like her need it, she’s struggling. She has no family other than her children, no outside help, and no federal help. She never had a chance from the beginning. Her being one of 22 children and her father working to support of her siblings, but still not being good enough shows that she’s always had nothing.
The part that angers me about Tammy is that she cautiously had one child after the other, knowing that her life wasn’t getting any easier or better. That was selfish of her to bring those children into a home that wasn’t prepared or good enough for them. Now I understand that some things were out of her control, for intense the role and input of the kids’ father. His input was his decision and his only he could have fought for them if he wanted. But he didn’t and that made it Tammy’s decision to stop having children when she knew she wouldn’t be able to care and provide for them. Another thing that makes me mad is she’s come to content. She is ok and willing to continue living the way she is living. Her son tries to tell her that she needs to better herself but she just thinks that she is doing all she can when truthfully she isn’t. Maybe as of financially she is but as of motherly she isn’t. She doesn't even motivate her kids to be better she just lets them sit like she does.
To close I just think that part of her situation is to because of her lack of self-respect and the other part is because of things out of her control.

I think that an urban area with more police forces does play a role in the arrest of different race. And since I lived and grew up in a violent neighborhood I saw first-hand to arrest due to racism. Since most of the people in my neighborhood are African American, all of arrest that went down were all of that race. On a regular my neighborhood has a total number of 3 to 4 police forces that park and stake. And I think that part of the reason why my neighborhood had so many police forces around was because my majority of my neighborhood was African American. The do this thinking that if they’re in the neighborhood that all the crime will stop but it doesn’t work.
The police force being there all the time affects my neighborhood in a bad way. Because the people doing the questioned crime acts get upset, tense, and very quiet which makes the police want to dig more. Which overall gives the neighborhood a sneaky no one can talk kind of vibe. But then the police go too far. After something happens, weather it’s a crime or just a fight, the police force will goes to the limit to get information out of any and every one. For example during my neighborhoods’ Community Day near the end a fight against females broke out. Now in my neighborhood we don’t break fights up, if it doesn’t concern us. But the police force saw it in another way. They broke up the fight by, each cop grabbing one of the females, and in my opinion they were too rough. They took each female to opposite sides of the road, and that was the end for them, the police just let the girls go and made them go home. But what made the police seem to go too hard is after the fight when everyone was still around to try to get information about how the fight started the police force picked this boy that was sitting on this railing and start yelling at him and demanding the boy to tell them who started the fight and when he said he didn’t know the police force didn’t believe him and kept asking/yelling. After they had gotten no answer they told everyone we had to go in our house. And since no one in my neighborhood listened the police force got even madder and called for more back up and got the dogs and abruptly forced everyone to leave the scene.
I think that whole more police force should be in urban and not in suburbs is not true because a year ago a horrible shooting happened in the suburbs which ended in the deaths of three police officers. And that shooting was in a place where not much crime happens so unfortunately there weren’t any police force close by. And on top of that the perpetrator was a White male. Which proves to show that it’s not about race when arresting people it’s about and it should be about the crimes the person commits.

King of the mountain was nothing but white people with power doing everything they could to keep us down!!!!!!!!!!!!!! when i say use I mean everyone and anyone with a darker skin tone then them. for what reason did they have to think that they were better. How they have so much power hunger inside them, they single handily ruined America with there inability to have more acceptance for diversity!!!!!!!!!!!! what about dark skin scared them so much i dont know. And i dont think i ever will. And its kinda sad to see that we the people still to this day have to deal with that.
I mean lets take financially for example for what reason did you they have to pay us low low low pay just to keep themselves ahead. I mean what went through their minds to make them be so evil and conniving. Why not be equal or get ahead the right way!?
And i love how religion always played a role on how they would claim to be holier than thou but turn around and stab your brother in the back. And yes i said brother because in Gods eyes we are all brother and sisters. But that never seem to stop them from doing their fellow brothers and sisters wrong.
I want America re heal and become the America we were meant to be and should be. Its not gonna be easy but its the right thing to do. There doesn't have to be a king on a mountain anymore. If everyone soul searches and realize that its on us to make this world a better place and that by giving each person a chance we can all get America back to number one!!!!!!!!!!!!!
just thinking about all the deaths of people who did nothing wrong but live life but because a white man thought he was better he decided to end their life, he decided to do them wrong, he decided to make their lives a living hell. why?
Since i was apart of the example in class that day, i really got alot out of it. I mean the whole time as we walked around that table i thought to myself why dont i just step up he never said he was gonna give a que or anything like that so why didnt i? I meant if i really wanted to i could have but why didnt i? and then i thought about just pushing him off after he had gotten up there. But i didnt. And i dont know why?
The truth i will never know why i didnt i just know that i want "The King" on the mountain to GET THE FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!! unless they plan on doing the right thing.

I think they are. Because when I go to the zoo I make it a top priority to go visit my brothers and sisters in their somewhat natural habitat. And what I see is that most of them are very calm, and collected. Not yelling, not arguing, and not worrying about another monkeys’ skin. I know that there are many different types of monkeys, like different number of races of humans. The difference is that they seem to accept every monkey of their kind. I think life would be easier, but harder at the same time. For one I think everyone’s’ stress level would go down. And a positive from that would be that the all the crime would go down. Now I’m not saying that all the drama would be gone, I know that couldn’t happen. Even monkeys have problems. But it differently would go down. People would also be happier if all they had to do was live, not worry about having the brand new shoes that just came out, or having the best hair styles. They would just want to have what they have and be happy with that and the life they could afford. They would have the time or erge to judge someone by the any materialistic thing.

“Some monkeys pay other monkeys to listen to their monkey problems”. Lol. That quote was just one of the many quotes from that video that stood out to me. The whole video itself really caught my interest, I was very surprised by everything the video was saying, and how passionate he was about everything he said. Would it be better if we just lived for the sake of living? instead of thinking for ourselves?In my opinion I honestly don’t know. I want to say its better that we developed the skill to think for ourselves but then I think about how peaceful and serine life would be if we didn’t develop the skill. I mean what has the skill done for us anyways? How do we know our thinking of life is right? We don’t. But this makes me start to think about how our brothers and sisters, the monkeys, live. Are the as peaceful and serine as they seem? I think they are. Because when I go to the zoo I make it a top priority to go visit my brothers and sisters in their somewhat natural habitat. And what I see is that most of them are very calm, and collected. Not yelling, not arguing, and not worrying about another monkeys’ skin. I know that there are many different types of monkeys, like different number of races of humans. The difference is that they seem to accept every monkey of their kind. I think life would be easier, but harder at the same time. For one I think everyone’s’ stress level would go down. And a positive from that would be that the all the crime would go down. Now I’m not saying that all the drama would be gone, I know that couldn’t happen. Even monkeys have problems. But it differently would go down. People would also be happier if all they had to do was live, not worry about having the brand new shoes that just came out, or having the best hair styles. They would just want to have what they have and be happy with that and the life they could afford. They would have the time or erge to judge someone by the any materialistic thing. They judge someone by who they are and what they bring to the table. In conclusion I still don’t know which way of living would be better but I guess I’ll never know. But I wouldn’t mind experimenting with it. I just hope that people took what the video said seriously and saw how the way live their lives does matter and is important and that having materialistic things don’t matter. Living life to the fullest is what matter, while being a nice, kind, and genuine person.