This is a really good question but its hard to back up either view. The reasoning behind this is whether you pick hard work or having money one most of the time cancels out the other. People that have money aren’t the people that necessarily worked the hardest; that money could have came from family just being heir to money. Likewise the people that work hard and struggle to put food on the table seem to be the ones that deserve the chance to start a new life. But they know that there is no way they could save enough money to be able to get a chance to have that new start they hope for. Just like this girl has said the hard work should be enough. Thinking about it that could be a good policy, a display of hard work that shows why you should be deserving to come to this country. Possibly a small amount of money that can be affordable to everyone to pay. Other than something along the lines of this I don’t know what could be done so it’s fair across the bored

This is a really good point and it’s something that I have thought of before but after awhile didn’t put anymore thought towards. I agree fully about family passing away, if any of my family would have been in that 300,000 I would really need some time to morn there loss. It is never easy to lose someone regardless if they are ready to go or not. As far as morning after those people have been lost people do definitely hurt and feel for the families that lost someone. Almost everyone can sympathetic not so much with an event that wiped this amount of people but the feeling of losing someone they love. These people are the ones who with out a doubt have no problem sending money to a foundation to help those families that may not have the money to bury their loved one.
The reason why people move on so quickly is exactly what she has said. We don’t know these people directly so only a certain amount of care goes them. Everyone has their own situations and problems to handle and there isn’t always enough room for things that aren’t affecting you directly. That sounds horrible but this is what seems to be conveyed by people. Whether its right or not, since we are all humans and a loss this big isn’t anything to should be pushed to the side. Even as I’m writing this I feel bad that I haven’t done more for the ones lost in Haiti. I’m also not speaking for everyone only what I have experienced myself. Talking about Haiti reminds me of New Orleans and what they had to go through, and still are. When Katrina struck everyone was taken back that something this massive happened to our homeland. Yes many people did help and a lot of natives of New Orleans would have been a lot worse off it people hadn’t donated to help. But it’s been how many years now and parts of the city still looks as it did the day the hurricane struck! That’s ridiculous and these images aren’t shown anymore because its old news now. We shouldn’t let anything like this become old new until the majority of the destruction is repaired. It doesn’t matter if other disasters have occurred, you can’t just push it to the side. People are still struggling down there and I don’t know if there is still aid going there or not but its truly sad to see these places suffer just because we are basically tired of hearing about them.

Being a guy I don’t really have a preference when it comes to white. I would any color, shape, size that isn’t matters to me. As much as it’s been said it really doesn’t solely depend what a girl looks like on the outside to me. I am a kind of guy that wants to get to know the girl first, not just pursue you because you have a nice body. If that’s all that mattered no one would have a long lasting marriage because we all will eventually get old and might not look as good as we did when we were in college. All I’m saying ladies is just live life as who you are and there will be someone waiting to accept you for you.

Ha-ha death, Sam cracks me up at the way he talks about death as if it’s nothing. Although he is right of course we will all die one day. But death isn’t really a subject that everyone is comfortable talking about. But to touch on what he is saying, I think that the point of race relations is to get everyone involved in what problems are happening in and through all aspects of life. Meaning that a race relation has an effect on more than just racial issues, it can be intertwined with things such as the war. This is what we talked about today and how it is seen through the Middle Eastern people’s eyes. Sam asked everyone to imagine as if they we were middle eastern ourselves. By doing this it allowed us to think as one. Once we did this Sam asked us questions such as what we want out of life. People said things like health, peace, and family the normal things pretty much that every human being wants out of life. Now he asked how would we feel if American soldiers came here and decided to take the oil was under the homes and lives? Right then the room slowly went silent, this wasn’t only because of the realization of how we share the same mentality but how there is more damage being done than we are shown. It hurts somewhat to think about how many people are being killed for oil! When Sam gave us the amount of civilians that we’re allowed to killed in order to get one terrorist, it didn’t process in my mind right. Wait did I really say ALLOW to kill? Ok I thought so, those words shouldn’t even be anywhere near each other. No one absolutely no one should be allowed to kill another person is my first point. Secondly the number is 29, that’s about a classroom at an elementary school.
I can honestly say I have no idea what the end goal is. I think that what Sam and others like him want to do is first make the world aware of all the issues concerning race and how they branch out to almost everything in the world. Then once the attention is on that, it then time to expose publicly what hardships have happened to all of the race and ethnic groups. This will put everyone on the same page and if this action is put to use the right way we may see what the big picture really is.

I believe that there absolutely has to be a step 2, because it isn’t right for anyone to have to live this way. Also to be able to beat someone and getting away with it as if it never happened. When a person works for a company then they get paid for their work. Otherwise they can go somewhere else and make money. To address the second question, as of now I’m not sure if anyone knows the second what the step is. I think the reason nothing has been done is because these major companies will lose money if these works will have to be paid. Also that this isn’t occurring in our back yard so we can’t stick our nose in there business.

This is a great question; and my friend and I had a conversation about this today right after class. It turns out both of us had been going back and forth over whether this class has changed people’s opinions. I’m not sure exactly sure what Sam said but in the first week of class he said something along the lines of. “I’m not trying to change anyone’s mind, but I am trying to look at situations in another perspective. In my opinion he has achieved this goal, I have definitely opened up my mind to other people that I didn’t know much about, and lifestyles that were opposite of what I thought. For example Native Americans, I had no idea at all that they live so poorly. I’m right next to a lot of other Americans that have been blindsided about what is really going on. Since native Americans aren’t in the news or being mentioned for winning something, to me I thought they were just working and living like the rest of us. To be completely honest the last time I heard about Native Americans was in my 12th grade history class. We were going over the camps that Native Americans were put into. Also how white settlers were trying to assimilate them in American culture. A process to phase out all their history, traditions, and beliefs that were taught to them. I really didn’t know they were in such poverty, and the suicidal rates they have! That is crazy and sad; these high rates mean that these people’s lives have really become nothing. It sounds harsh but it speaks for itself. Another situation I didn’t know about was the difficulty for gay and lesbian couples to adopt children. My thinking was that since this lifestyle had been started to be accepted that everyone and almost everything would see this and be open to it. Sike I was definitely way off with that thought. As I learned more about how the couples raised their kids, it became evident that they were just as capable as straight couples to raise children. It also doesn’t mean that the child will follow in there parents footsteps and be gay or lesbian. In my opinion these kids might have a better life experience, and will live life to the fullest. They will be the ones that truly know how to live life to the fullest. Also being able to accept everyone for who they are.

The feeling of confusion is something that no one wants to have to feel. And the fact that he has been placed in different categories doesn’t help, and it’s hard to just choose 1 side. Because you don’t want to neglect the other half of who you are. In this guys case I would put him with the same category as he said Hispanic. Also how he identifies as being on the black and brown team, because of the common thread of sharing the same experiences. Hopefully this guy will eventually be able to just give a straight answer when asked what is your cultural back ground is?

This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this video, I saw it once before in high school. It was an after school program that I was in called African American Support Group, a program to help us with school work as well as challenges of being black. While we watched this video everyone’s mouth was hanging open and the only thing you could here was gasps as the kids kept picking up the white doll. It blows my mind that so many kids didn’t want the black doll. I thought that they would automatically pick the black one since it looked like them. The worst part of that was when they were asked why they chose the white doll. They answered saying “the white one is nice and the black one is bad”; I was thinking is this what they really think? Or is it what they have been taught to like. I can’t bring myself to believe that these little kids had low self-esteem at this age, so they must have seen experiences where the black doll is seen as bad. Then they chose the one that looked like them which was the bad one. It was crazy how at first the little touched the white doll and she had to second guess herself and it is seen in her face. It was easy to see that she wanted to pick the white doll. To see the black children think they are ugly and bad is just terrifying. It’s hard to wrap my head around how our society can have such an effect, even after fighting oppression. When Sam said in class how each black person at least felt this way a little bit, that was shocking and sad to hear. Some of the black kids in the world really aren’t proud to be black and have such a strong history that they should embrace and not turn their backs on. That seems to be the start of serious identity issues, and an experience like this is what has lead some black people to use whitening and bleaching creams. In their mind why not change my skin black is bad and white it good.
As soon as Sam pulled this clip up I felt a chill remembering all the feelings and pain from seeing this once before. But now it was different I now was able to sit back and watch others reactions to it, since I was in my own world be shocked just like everyone else. I’m glad that the class is filled with many different ethnicities because not everyone responded the same.

I understand exactly what is being said here, Sam does group Asians and Asian Americans with brown a person which doesn’t seem to make much sense. Today when he asked all the black people to raise their hands there was so much hesitation from all the black people in the room. Me as well as other black people in the class have no idea what the difference is between black and brown people are. My black friends are all different shades and trace their ancestry to many different places but I still consider them black because that is what they are. To address the second part of this video blog, I really can’t tell the difference 100% between Asians and Asian Americans. I use to think you could by the way they dress, which is wrong but it seemed to work for a little while. I then realized anyone can where anything they want and it isn’t going to show what your ethnicity is.

Wow I have never heard a girl say she was bleeding knowing that everyone was going to find out. Whenever I’ve heard about women menstruating it always seems to be so secret but some girls make it so obvious when they pass them under the tables mouth the word tampon so no one can see what they’re trying to say. It caught me off guard that this girl talks about her period in such a positive way. Being excited that she will one day be able to produce a child. In other situations I’ve heard periods referred to as the worst thing ever and girls wishing they didn’t get them.