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13 years ago @ Race Relations Project - South Park...off the h... · 0 replies · +1 points

I think what people like most about south park is that they are not afraid to cross the boundaries that a lot of society likes to try to constrain us to. I don’t think that its that big of a deal because they make fun of EVERYONE and EVERYTHING, but I can see from their point of view that they would be mad. Think about it-they don’t watch south park, im sure they just saw a clip from the internet and got upset about it. They probably don’t understand what south park is all about-it was like the class where we looked at thing from another perspective. Its all about the eye of the beholder.

13 years ago @ Race Relations Project - What about people who ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I think that immigrants need to be legal for some reasons, but other reasons make that harder and unrealistic. Hard work is almost always going to be involved in anything that people do, especially when you are working from the bottom and trying to move up. I do agree with some of these posts that its not necessarily fair for people who have worked hard to get somewhere to pay for people who maybe have slacked off because they know they can live off others. But this is not always the case, sometimes people work very hard, and the world just doesn’t shift in their favor. I think that people that work hard are deserving, its just the slackers I have a problem with.

13 years ago @ Race Relations Project - What about health care? · 0 replies · +1 points

Here is my personal problem with the Obama administration and this new health care reform policy that has happened. I am not completely educated about the policy-partially because they wont let people know what is in it- but his next move is what we talked about today, make everyone here citizens. Has anyone really thought about what this means? Not only will it create a rush for our boarders, but it means we (tax payers) will be paying for these immigrants to have health care, which means even more money is being taken from us and them!
Most people that come here seem to be coming here to get away from something in their own country, or they would just stay in their homeland where their family is. Perhaps something awful is happening, or maybe they just believe that they can have a better life and will have more opportunities if they move to America. Either way most people coming here are not in great financial situations, and will not be able to pay substantial enough taxes to cover to cost for the US to provide them all with health care. This is the problem with this sequence of events.
However, I could never look at a human being and tell them that they can’t be taken care of because they don’t have health insurance, and that they must stay sick. SO here is the problem, and it ties back into the issues we discussed in class today. Is there a solution? Maybe there is just simply no way to fix all of these problems because when you fix one it seems to make another problem worse.
In the end everyone deserves to be healthy and happy and to be able to be taken care of by a doctor if need be, but I don’t think the way that people are going about it is helpful at all. I don’t have a solution, and the is the humility that Sam was talking about today in class. I know that I don’t have the solution, but at the same time I know that what is happening now is not the answer.
In the end it all comes down to the fact that we are all humans, and I can’t imagine denying people healthcare or medical help when they need it just because of money, and at the same time its all about money.
Being that I am coming out of college and realizing I have to pay healthcare that I won’t even see immediately it does make me feel some kind of way about that fact that I am going to have to pay even more to cover them. It is a hard struggle.

13 years ago @ Race Relations Project - Letter from an Inmate · 0 replies · +1 points

This really makes you second guess things doesn’t it? I mean, here are people that have done something so horrible they are thought of as the evil-doers of society, and then someone writes something like this-so real and so intelligent. You can see that they have probably changed and grown as a persona and you wonder if they truly should be behind bars. And then you remember what they did and you can’t possibly believe that you are saying that. It’s a hard place. I never thought of compassion as something that would be so present in a prison, but the way he puts it, it makes perfect sense.

13 years ago @ Race Relations Project - 300,000! What's ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I think that something like this is completely horrible and devastating-but that you are right, people seem to move on. This has something to do with the “us and them” phenomenon that has happened between countries. We are not all humans- not simply people. But we are people with an identity that seems to root in where we are from. And when something happens to them-we feel badly because we know those were humans, but people seem to also think: that god it wasn’t us. This is terrible and one of the many points that I wish people could understand. We are not US and THEM, those lines are invisible-we are all humanity and you are right, we should all be effected by anything that happens.

13 years ago @ Race Relations Project - Christian Invaders - t... · 0 replies · +1 points

My Mom has always been really big on trying to understand. She has read a lot of books about the Muslim faith and has always tried to get me to see things from another perspective. As much as she has done to try and get me to understand, this one lecture made everything make more sense. As I sat there it made perfect sense to me why these people think what they are doing was right. From my family I only ever got the “well see if from their perspective, they think they are right”… but I never knew WHY they thought they were right. This really put it into perspective. Of course I would fight and stand up for myself and my family if I thought people were coming to my country to take away our resources and kill us because of our religion, itsn’t that kind of what some people in America think they are doing in some respect? We think they hate us because we are “Americanized” and we are Christians, just like they think we are fighting them because we want to take their oil and because they are Muslim.
I hope that people truly understood the point of this lecture. I think some people that seem angry might have not truly understood what you were trying to do as a teacher. You were educating us on understanding ethnocentrism and how it works for other people as well. Just how we revolve around our culture, they revolve around theirs. I think people saying this is stupid and wrong aren’t getting the point. Sam is not picking on Christians either, the evidence is there! I am a Christian, but even I can admit that there are some people out there who really do believe this is a Christian war in they own mind, and some of them are or were running this country- can you understand why that would be scary to the Muslim people we are fighting against?!
Another good point htat was made was those about the youtube videos. How we tend to send out on e-mail list serves all the good videos of the soldiers that are so amazing over there (which they are) and all of the good things that are happening. However, at the same time they are sending around all the bad things—all the people that don’t have the right mind set. One of the most important things that Sam said to help us understand is when we talking about how WE know that those are just a couple of assholes but that most everyone in the army is actually amazing….BUT THEY DON’T. people just need to open up to understand.

13 years ago @ Race Relations Project - This is totally off th... · 0 replies · +1 points

This is definitely sick-about you much be a psychopath if you think that raping women is a fun way to spend your time. I understand why some say that you can’t control it and blah, blah… but what has society come to that people want to pretend to rape people over and over-men or women. I think that society always has some sick fascination with things that are just awful. Entertainment since entertainment was invented had always been about sex and violence, but this has to be crossing some kind of line right? This is just upsetting that people think this would ever be something they should make. I feel like people are punished for less-I am glad to see there are other people enraged by this.

13 years ago @ Race Relations Project - I really want to know ... · 0 replies · +1 points

This is obviously just a personal opinion, but there are a lot of things that have been said this semester that have changed how I see and interact with people. I think there are a few reasons that I have had such an open mind about what was being taught in this class and really been able to embrace what has been said. The first is that I am a senior and that possibly I am a little more mature then some of the freshman/sophomores taking this class. Before you freak out and condemn me to being one of “those” seniors, I say this only because everyone knows that you change a lot throughout college and getting to the end of college I have changed, a lot. I have experienced a lot of different things and they have shaped a lot of who I am. Another reason is because I took this class because I was actually interested in the topic, not because I heard that it is an easy elective. I came to this class wanting to learn about race, I spent 6 months living in South Africa, a country riddled with racial problems since the end of the apartheid. After seeing first hand and even experiencing racial inequality at its worst I came back as a white person no longer in the awakening/pre-awakening stages. Taking this class was my effort to help close the gap of racial inequality it was my first step. I have learned a LOT from this class. It has given me the confidence to not only speak out against injustice that I see, but change my ways of thinking. I really don’t know how to describe the impact that this class has had on my life—but I know that when I skype with my friends that still lie in SA, the people of color from SA tend to agree with a lot of what Sam says. People need to open their eyes, what he is giving us here is a way to change the world and slow and eventually stop all the hate—and yet it will continue because people are too stupid to see it. This can’t just be chalked up to mediocre class, maybe it wasn’t your personal favorite, but did you ever think that maybe this is because it hurt to hear some of what he was saying? Instead of embracing it you brushed it off as just another authority figure trying to ruin your life?
Of course there are going to be some things that I question when I hear, or even after the reflection process I don’t agree with, but to say you have not learned anything means you either have not been paying attention or you are purely ignorant.

13 years ago @ Race Relations Project - How Can We Ever "Win"? · 0 replies · +1 points

I think that Sam's point was just to put examples of people in different stages (jesse jackson) for us to better understand what he was saying. As far as the LL Bean thing, I do see what he is saying about that. If you don't like those pictures because you think they are stupid then you are still in the immersion stage. From this comment, it seems like you aren't really in this because you posed the questions "what are they supposed to do". Which is where i stand with this as well as the PSU brochures. what are they supposed to do? make the thing all white people to reflect what campus is actually like? Then they would get in trouble by groups saying that they are racist for not putting more races in the brochures. It is hard to take an accurate snap shot of some place like PSU that is so large. If people were really interested in the school and race really mattered to them-they would most likely look up statistics-not let themselves be fooled by the brochure pictures.

13 years ago @ Race Relations Project - What About Multiracial... · 0 replies · +1 points

I think it is hard to identify yourself and was or another because whichever group you choose might not fully accept the decision. BUT its not about them, you know how you feel and from your comment here is seems that you identify more with your latino/hipanic heritage. I think that you are only basing any whiteness on the fact that people sometimes "mistake" you for white because you have light skin. However as we saw from pictures in class people mistake people for other races all the time, there is no TRUE way to identify other races. Even if you had darker skin, someone would always think you belonged to another group. So i think the best way to handle it is to identify yourself with the culture YOU think you fit into better and correct people if they get it wrong--don't get confused because people mistake your background.