en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/768351 Comments by jerzzeygurl https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/isnt-migration-conflict-inevitable__trashed/#IDComment70022634 It is hard to tell whether or not we are wrong with immigration. Ultimately, we only need immigrants when we need workers. I don’t really know how immigration works, but I think it needs to be regulated. There is no need for our country to have people come in that doesn’t work. Unemployment is already high and we don’t need outside people competing for jobs. However, immigrants work the jobs that Americans do not want. How many Americans will pick vegetables in a field at low cost? My biggest concern is education. As a future teacher, I worry about the funding to school districts. Even if a child is from an illegal immigrated family, they are still entitled to a free public education. Legal citizens pay taxes that fund our public schools. In each district, there are controversies over the townships budget and how much of it goes to the schools. I believe in the right to education for all children, but I think it comes at a cost. It is a controversial subject because the kids are not at fault for coming to this country. Also if we do not provide them with an education they will become a burden to society. So, what are we to do? We can attempt to control our borders, but we don’t have much control over it. We can physically control who comes in to an extent. I have never given much thought to immigration other than when I see Mexicans standing outside 7-11 waiting for someone to pick them up for work. I am afraid to get out of my car when I see them standing there. This may have to do with ethnocentrism in that I am only familiar with the legal people that live in my area. New people moving in to our country I something we cannot control. From an economic point of view, we only need people for work. Economics are what runs our country and our lives. We don’t need people if we do not have work for them. We are all immigrants and it is not equitable to say that other people cannot come here. However, for the benefits of our own lives, we need to consider our lifestyles. If our country becomes too crowded and competition for jobs becomes more difficult, we won’t have the lifestyle we desire. We have to be selfish when it comes to our families because we want the best for them. Why should a family that does not pay taxes benefit from their children getting a free education? Should we help those that are not paying to our nation’s taxes? There are no simple answers to immigration. Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:51:39 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/isnt-migration-conflict-inevitable__trashed/#IDComment70022634 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/christian-invaders-the-turnaround__trashed/#IDComment68713763 The point of the lecture was not to feel bad about being an American or being a Christian. Sam was showing us another viewpoint of the world. I had never sat and thought about what it would feel like to be on the other side. If I were a Muslim and had been exposed to certain pieces of media that Sam showed, I would be afraid too. It’s hard for me to determine whether or not I would join the insurgency. I don’t think I could ever be able to bomb or shoot another person. This lecture also made me think about what a point brought up in our discussion group a few weeks ago. This was seeing people as people rather than objects. We want to believe that we are caring and considerate of others, but we are not as humane as we think. War is as inhumane as it gets. Sam said in class that up to 27 civilians can be killed for one bad guy. That is crazy and probably more people are killed than that. If I were an Iraqi woman, I would hate these Christian American invaders too. On the idea of Christian taking over the world: that was not Sam’s point in the slightest. Muslims are not trying to take over either, unless they are extremists. Being extreme about anything is dangerous though. No religion is better than another. We have no right to force our beliefs on anyone else. Again if I was an Islamic woman and I saw these Christian men giving bibles to my people and children, I would have some concern. I would also be worried after seeing videos of these Christian people saying this was a crusade in my country. We feel comfortable in our own culture and religion. We only really understand our own way of life, which is ethnocentrism. Religion is not the reason we are fighting this war at all. American politicians have used poor word choice in calling this a holy war or a crusade. This war is entirely about controlling resources. I don’t think it is fair that we can go into war so that we can take their oil. However, our country and way of life benefits from taking others’ resources. Costs are lower and we do not have to worry about running out of power. In class Sam had us think about if the Chinese came and took over our coal supply. We would be pissed if this happened. It is like stealing another country’s money and wealth when you take their resources. We only know how to live our own lives and rarely take the time to think about others. Life is not fair in that some benefit from the destruction of others. But is there anything we can even do about it? I don’t think Sam wanted us to feel bad about anything; he just wants us to be able to look at things from another side. Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:09:54 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/christian-invaders-the-turnaround__trashed/#IDComment68713763 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/this-is-totally-off-the-hook__trashed/#IDComment66906670 I have never heard of such a game where the objective is to rape women. How could a person even think to create this game? I would like to meet the people who have designed such games and see what they are like. Do they have families? Daughters? Wives? They cannot have any morals or ethics. Words cannot even describe the shock I feel about this. I am confused how such a game can be distributed to the public. I have played shooting games and the violence does not affect me. I do not like the newer games that are graphic and you watch the guys bleed to death. I like the older games like Goldeneye where the dead bodies disappear and there is no blood. Back to this rape game, how can it be fun to rape women? I can’t even imagine how my mom would react if she knew there were games like this. She does not like violent games but accepts them. She always said the games we play would affect our development. If they NEED to have games revolving around rape, the purpose should be to save the woman who is being assaulted. The game should promote being a “good guy”. It is scarier to think about the people who are playing this game and think that it is not bad. In Japan, women are obviously not valued. I can’t believe their government will not intervene with the production of these games. Had it not been for the Internet, these games would not circulate as easily. Technology can have negative effects on our society. We take for granted that we can type and search anything in the world. I think the Internet has proven to be more harmful than good. Women are exploited and no one does anything about it. If I were to walk into my male friends’ apartment and find them playing a game that the purpose of the game is to rape women I would have to revaluate our friendships. I would probably yell at them and lecture them on their values and morals. Seriously, what would our mothers say about such games? It is not that I am offended by such a game, but I am afraid of it. It is teaching our society that rape is not a bad thing. If real rapists were playing this game, it would encourage them to go out and do it in real life. The British people that were interviewed made it really mad. They did not think these games are a bad thing. I just don’t get it. Yea, it is not okay to shoot people, but it’s better than raping women. In the shooting games, the objective is usually to kill the bad guys. I don’t know how a game could be fun watching other people suffer. What has happened to our society? Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:45:27 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/this-is-totally-off-the-hook__trashed/#IDComment66906670 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/is-quality-the-question__trashed/#IDComment65690117 I thought this was a very interesting question. After thinking about it, I don’t think that affirmative action would necessarily make less qualified people hired in fields that require certain certifications. It would at most give them a boast into getting accepted into programs, but it would be their own responsibility to be successful in that program. A minority may get accepted into medical school because of their ethnicity. However, acceptance does not equal completion. Like we learned in class nepotism is more of a threat than affirmative action. Nepotism would bring less qualified people into a position before affirmative action. When people hire their friends and family, the most qualified people are not even considered. Although, how can we blame each other for hiring their friends and family when we all do the same thing? We trust the people we know before we trust strangers. Different people could bring more to a job than our friends but they do not get the chance to. I have gotten jobs through friends/relatives and there are definitely more qualified people for those jobs than me. Also I found that by working for people I have a personal relationship I could get away with a lot more than another person would have. I would show up late or take longer breaks or was just lazy. My quality of work was significantly less than another’s would have been. It sucks to be the person who does not get hired because they don’t have the connections to get the job. Life really is who you know rather than what you know. There is nothing we can really do to solve this issue so we need to just accept it. In real professional jobs such as doctors, this should not be the case. You need to know how to be a doctor rather than just knowing other doctors. But you may get accepted into a college over someone else because you are a certain race. This could be seen as an unfair advantage to some but you need to work hard afterwards to make that schooling worthwhile. Personally I benefitted from a form of affirmative action/nepotism getting into Penn State. I applied from out of state and for some reason there are higher standards for non-Pennsylvanians to get accepted. My high school college counselor is an alumnus from PSU and our school has a decently high acceptance rate to the main campus and the branch campuses. Upon arriving at PSU, I found that I had a higher GPA and SAT score than most of the Pennsylvanians that got attend here. If my counselor did not have the relationship he has with this college would I have gotten in even though I think I am more qualified than others? I don’t really need to worry about it because I was fortunate enough to have gotten in. We all benefit from certain things in certain ways. Overall, I think we all need to just except things for the way they are because there isn't anything we can do about it. Sat, 3 Apr 2010 03:16:14 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/is-quality-the-question__trashed/#IDComment65690117 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/in-her-own-words__trashed/#IDComment64210381 Like several of the proceeding blogs have said men generally have no need to think or talk about women’s menstrual cycle. Of course men who have a close relationship with a woman will suffer with them during this time as well. My boyfriend has to deal with my moody and short-tempered self every month. I just asked my boyfriend what he thinks about periods and his response was “Its great for the first second I hear about it and then sucks for the rest of the time. They’re just stupid.” According to him, I turn into a different person and he has to be very careful because I get mad at everything he does. I don’t know why I get this way or how I can avoid my bad moods. It is a horrible time of the month and it comes way too often. I still do not think it is something that needs to be discussed in such depth. I am a girl and I still don’t really understand why or how periods happen. It is just something that happens that I as well as every other woman have to deal with. If I were to overhear a conversation of boys talking about woman “bleeding” I would be concerned. There is nothing they can do to help this occurrence besides going to the store for tampons, Midol and chocolate. Men and boys aren’t the ones that bleed for a week so they have nothing to say. A friend of mine (who is a boy) used to say, “I just don’t get it. How can a living thing bleed for 5 days and not die? I don’t trust that”. I think that his ignorance was humorous and do not mind that he does not know anything about periods. A man can sympathize as much as he wants with a girl who is suffering through her period but he will never understand. My boyfriend does not even care that I am miserable. He only cares how that it affects him. This week long of bleeding is something they will never experience first hand so it is not any of their business to talk about. On the other hand, periods can be seen as a blessing. Men are fearful of what they do not understand. For example, if a girl does not want to go to class, she can email/call her male professors/bosses and simply say “menstrual issues” and it is a free pass from class. Periods are a great excuse to get out of things that they do not want to do. We should get a little perk for having to bear the burden of our menstrual cycles. It sucks a lot but it isn’t something that needs to be discussed in detail. Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:42:58 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/in-her-own-words__trashed/#IDComment64210381 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/what-happens-to-multiracial-people__trashed/#IDComment63003130 This question is interesting because I always thought that dividing our class into two teams is not enough or in a way not right. I don’t really understand how all people with dark skin are considered on the “black team”. There are some people that are have light skin and I would not consider them black but they are in this class. I guess it is a choice of which team you want to be on if you are not totally white. It is kind of confusing to me. My best friend from home is Korean and Egyptian. I always considered her white and would be jealous of how tan she got in the summer. Is she not white? She wants to use my brother’s girlfriend’s id. They have the same skin color even though I think his girlfriend is Indian, French, and Philippine. Which team is she on? This class has confused me in the sense of I don’t know what to think about race anymore because I did not used to categorize people by the color of their skin. Sam had all those stages in lecture and I don’t know which one I fall into. I never put much thought into a lot of my friends not being white. Are we supposed to see color as a way to categorize people? Maybe it is the term “team” that I don’t like because I want to be on the same team that my friends would be. It makes me feel racist thinking that my multiracial friends are on the black or brown team. With the idea of having teams: one team is always better than the other. Teams are created for competition. I think Sam should use the term “party” instead of team. It has the same idea of categorizing and everyone likes parties. Also the word “party” is more culturally inviting. Thinking about parties, I love when my non-white friends invite me to their family parties. My family is white and our parties are lame. One of my friends is Indian and I want to marry him so I can go to all their family parties. Usually I’m the only white person there, but Indians know how to party. Their food is awesome and they love to drink and dance. I want to be at the black or brown party. I don’t think Sam would actually change the terminology he uses because he is in the zone from teaching exactly the same year after year. Using the word “team” he is promoting competition even if it is not intended. Some of the other blogs want to have more than just two teams. That could work for the mixed people who can flip flop between the two teams. Regardless, I’m going to stop thinking of them as teams and call them parties. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:03:50 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/what-happens-to-multiracial-people__trashed/#IDComment63003130 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/prom-or-no-prom-just-dont-let-the-queer-students-dance-together__trashed/#IDComment61780613 A lot of blogs comment on how crazy the concept is to cancel a prom because of one gay couple. It is shocking considering how out of date it seems to be so ignorant towards same-sex couples. However, in Southern schools as well as religious ones, same-sex orientations is still frowned upon. The other night while watching tv, two of my roommates commented on how disgusting lesbians were. I was surprised because I never thought it as being any different from heterosexual couples. The two girls I live with went to a Catholic school that stuck to the traditional prayers and beliefs. It would be unheard of to come out as gay in their high school. I went to a public school where gay couples were treated the same as every other couple. When purchasing a prom ticket, gender was not questioned. Not every couple attending prom were “dating”. Several of my friends went with other girls because they did not want to waste money bringing a boy they did not like. I wish that I had gone with a friend rather than my boyfriend from the time. I would have had a better time and saved money too. Would anyone accuse me of being a lesbian had I brought a girl to prom? Most likely not in my high school. Prom is supposed to be a night to have fun with your friends before graduation. If a school does cancel prom in fear of lesbians attending, do the other students get their money back for their bids? I was vice president of my senior class and one of my responsibilities was to help plan prom. Months of work and effort goes into making sure the night has everything planned out. It would be impossible to get all the money back for food, decorations, table placings, the hall, furniture, etc. Forget the number of students that would be disappointed that they would not get to go to their prom. I would be livid if all our planning went to waste because the administration did not want a same sex couple going. Also the class budget goes towards making prom more affordable and that money would probably not be given back. So besides it being immoral to cancel prom because of sexual orientation, it is a huge waste of money. To top it off, why would it matter if the girl wants to wear a tuxedo? My high school’s administration would have probably been happy if more girls wore tuxedos, rather than skanky dresses. It should be in the student’s own interest who they want to date and what they want to wear. No one gets hurt by a girl wearing a tuxedo or by her dating another girl. Live and let live. It’s just prom; let the kids go. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:43:22 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/prom-or-no-prom-just-dont-let-the-queer-students-dance-together__trashed/#IDComment61780613 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/when-do-we-do-or-say-something__trashed/#IDComment58823386 You are saying that if a life were in danger you would stand by and let that person be harmed because of their race? I’m confused to as whether you are talking about yourself being threatened or watching another person be threatened. Regardless it is not a fair circumstance. Obviously I agree that a person with a gun can be terrifying and it would be a difficult decision to intervene and risk your own life. However, how could a person stand by and watch a person be executed innocently because they are of a different race? This is an extreme situation and it is hard to determine one’s actions until they are faced with it. A lot of the other blogs are saying that we should stand up to the injustices of other races. It makes me wonder if these people themselves would say anything to a person discriminating others. Chances are that the majority of us would keep to ourselves and move on with our day. It takes courage to stand up to another person and tell them that they are wrong. In all actuality, we live in a society filled with cowards. We all like to say we are righteous and we would fight for the civil liberties of others. Americans are a “mind your own business” type of people and walk away from troublesome situations in which they are not directly involved. Besides race, people discriminate against one another for a variety of reasons. People are judged by whether they are pretty or fat or smart or stupid. Granted this isn’t in the same category as racism, but it is in a subcategory of bullying. Bullying sounds weak and like it’s not a big deal. In fact, it is so similar to the injustices of racism. If we see someone ill-treating a person due to their weight, next to no one would stand up for that person. It is impossible to say that we would stand up to others that are being mistreated by others because the majority of us are bystanders. I’m not blaming society for being the way it is. It is true though that we do not care about people that are no in close relation to us. The girl in the video was standing up for the Muslim girl because her friend was Muslim. What if she had no Muslim friends? Would she still care about the girl being mistreated? We can’t tell people they are wrong for not standing up for others because it is all personal choice. All we can do is hope that people will stop mistreating others and to do what we feel is right in situations. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:08:11 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/when-do-we-do-or-say-something__trashed/#IDComment58823386 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/lgbt-class-question-one__trashed/#IDComment57536259 Like most bloggers have previously said, there should be no difference between a gay couple and a lesbian couple adopting a child. However, the problem lies within our society. When raising a child, it is theory that the mother is the primary caregiver. Society has given women the role of raising the children. We think that women possess this internal motherly instinct. So it’s no wonder that it would be easier for lesbians to adopt a child. In a sense, it may appear that the child is lucky to have two mommies. Although some men are more caring and responsible than females could be. It is more shocking for society to see two men with a baby. My boyfriend’s best friend has a baby girl. Whenever the two of them go out together, people often assume they are a gay couple with a baby. They get a lot of disoriented looks from people and are often questioned about when they adopted her. Firstly, it would not be anyone’s business if they were gay and had a child. Secondly, if they were actually a couple, they would make awesome dads together. If a child is loved and cared for, why is sex an issue? For children growing up with same sex parents, it is not an easy task. Kids can be really cruel to one another and be ridiculed because they have gay parents. I don’t think there would be a difference for a child to have two mommies vs. two daddies. It also is not just an issue of children teasing one another. Their motives come from the opinions of there parents. If adults instill the idea that every family is different then there would be no issue in adoption for gay couples. Being a man or a woman does not make you a good parent. Agencies should no discriminate a couple based upon if they are homosexual males or females or heterosexual. They should look at the morals and values of the couple. The main purpose of adoption should be to provide children with the best life possible. Is it really better to keep children in orphanage or foster home rather than give them to a same sex couple? Two gay men who desperately want a child to love and raise should have the right to have a child. They should not be denied because of their gender or sexual orientation. Love does not discriminate so neither should people. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:24:38 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/lgbt-class-question-one__trashed/#IDComment57536259 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/men-and-women-were-really-this-different__trashed/#IDComment56883470 The idea of a talking sex doll in my opinion is extremely pathetic. You can’t find a girlfriend so a man pays $7,000 for a fake one? It seems like it would be freakishly abnormal, not to mention antisocial. If a man only plays with his doll, then how will he ever find a real companion? As a woman, I would be frightened to find a man that owns one of these dolls. It seems so real; I would not know how to react if I was dating a man with one. In a strange way, the doll would be like a competitive figure. Is it cheating to have sex with a doll that seems so real? It is a bizarre thing to own. Also it is sad for men with real relationships to desire to have this doll. Maybe men don’t need a live girlfriend and this play doll is all they need. I cannot imagine that sexual relations with a doll could be better than with a real person. Although, the technology that makes up this doll is fascinating. A doll with so many features makes you wonder, what will the world come up with next? The next model will probably have the ability to cook and clean as well. Also the price of the doll is rather shocking. I do not believe the value of my car is even as much as this doll. If a man can easily afford this toy, he obviously has money to spend on a live woman. My advice to these men is to try dating and spend some money there before buying such an expensive toy. One of the other blogs mentioned that there are more toys on the market for women. This may be true, but it is easier for men to have sexual satisfaction that it is for women. I see no harm in small toys like vibrators; these can actually help advance sexual relationships with real partners. However, this doll can do no such thing. It is a sick invention and could cause people to live in an unreal life. A person can start confusing the robot for being an actual person. I could see Roxxxy causing disturbed humans to become even more confused. If our society really needs dolls like this, then the world is more troubled than I thought before. Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:01:20 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/men-and-women-were-really-this-different__trashed/#IDComment56883470 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/avatar-and-the-white-mans-burden__trashed/#IDComment55548461 Like so many other people, when I fist saw the previews I had no desire to see Avatar. It seemed stupid and very sci-fi themed. Several reviews had said it was a life changing film and a must-see. So, I went to see it and the theatre was packed to where not a single seat was open. The graphics and special effects were awesome, but like Brooks said its plot line is similar to several other movies. I did find it strange to be rooting for these blue alien natives to blow up the humans. Overall the movie did not change my life in any way. In response to the blog previous about living in peace, no one would want to go see a movie that was all love and happiness. That would be boring and pointless. We need conflict and for a man to save the rest of the world. Besides the issue of films always starring a white hero, why does our hero always have to be a man? Women are just as capable as protagonist, but most men would not want to see a woman saving a man. For some reason society likes to inflict the idea that men are the more powerful ones and can take care of any issue. Another message I got from the movie is that men are selfish and do not listen to what is right. It took the woman scientist to attempt to make peace with the natives. The men had no patience in getting to know these people and resorted to violence. I’m in no way trying to bash men, but this film did make them look like greedy fools. These military men did not care that they were destroying the natives’ home; their only concern was the profit that they could get. The whole idea of needing a “White Messiah”, I feel is ironic in that it is the white men who are causing the problems. The natives were living in perfect harmony before men brought violence to their world. Leave it to the white man to save the day from his own kind. This was a film that I would definitely recommend especially comparing it to other lame films that are produced lately. It does have a common plot line like Pocahontas, but it is still a good story. There are so many terrible movies that have been released, but this one is not one of them. Sat, 6 Feb 2010 00:23:06 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/avatar-and-the-white-mans-burden__trashed/#IDComment55548461 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/01/i-guess-it-pays-to-learn-a-bit-about-other-people__trashed/#IDComment54418118 After reading this article, it proves how the world is still racial ignorant. With all that has happened with terrorist attacks on airplanes, people across the nation are very skittish when they see any unfamiliar acts on planes. As a Catholic, his religious ritual would confuse me as they differ from my own. It is hard to judge the airline’s reaction because they did not understand this young Jewish man. They were concerned with the safety of all the other passengers because he looked different. Would they have had the same reaction if a Christian man was praying with a Rosary? The airline would not have thought twice. Although the young man was not doing anything wrong, flight attendants on today’s commercial flights have protocols to follow and that’s exactly what they were doing. To the young Jewish man he was just killing time on the flight to pass time, but in today’s world everyone needs to think twice of what there doing on a airplane do to all the recent bad activities that have occurred in the past few years. There is no possible way for anyone to know everything about every religion. It is hard to be open-minded in the world we live in today because every unusual behavior has to be seen as a threat. It is sad that the world has to be this way. Even with high tech security systems and extra security on flights and in airports people still feel unsafe. Know matter how many years go by the world will still be very biased towards different cultures, races, and religions. The best any individual can do is try to broaden their own knowledge of people that are different from them. Instead of being afraid of something new, just ask what they are doing and why. Most people will be willing to share their culture with others. Also within each religion, people have different ways of keeping their faith. Some people are more religious than others. This man was seen as a threat because his acts looked suspicious. In today’s society we are becoming more and more diverse. As a result, people judge one another on there views of religion, faith, and even the way people look and dress. People of different religions also become victims of hate crimes due to all the social racism we face in the modern era. This young Jewish man was a victim of racial discrimination. Will there ever be a solution to racism? No, because no matter what we say or do; people will always be afraid of what they do not understand. By judging and not getting to know about other cultures, people are missing out. They live in a small world that will keep getting smaller by their unwillingness to learn about others. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:35:39 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/01/i-guess-it-pays-to-learn-a-bit-about-other-people__trashed/#IDComment54418118 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/01/last-name-begins-with-l__trashed/#IDComment53966778 word Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:04:07 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/01/last-name-begins-with-l__trashed/#IDComment53966778 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/01/haitis-calamity__trashed/#IDComment53471620 It is sad that it takes tragedy and disaster to open the eyes of people. Even though these eyes do not remain open for long. As time goes by, we forget those who are suffering and move on in our own lives. Momentarily, everyone is keeping the people of Haiti in their thoughts and prayers. The people who have lost everything are the ones that will never forget their times of misery. Already Americans have forgotten about the attacks of September 11th. Even though this awful event occurred 8 years ago, to those that were directly affected it is still as frightening and painful to think about. Innocent Americans were buried in rubble and loved ones were lost. I will never forget my father unplugging the TVs in our house and telling us he had to go to work without knowing when he would be home. He is a police officer in New Jersey and had to go to the city. I remember how scared my mother was and we stayed up all night waiting for him to come home. When he finally did return, he was a different person. Later he admitted that he did not find any live people and that it was the most horrifying experience. I cannot imagine what the city must have been like that day or the following ones and neither can most Americans. Then for a year or so, American flags flew from every car and building. Where has our pride gone? Until you actually experience disaster, a person has no idea what it feels like. Being so far and disconnected from Haiti, most of us are unaffected; even though some claim they will do as much as they can to help. I am not saying that the little we do is worthless, but it is defiantly not enough. This earthquake has caused so much heartache and pain that we will never understand. To all that are giving selflessly and actually doing everything they can, they truly are angels on earth. Personally, I would like to do more, but I feel all that I can do is donate money. The people need more than just money though. They need so much aid and supplies. I will keep them in my prayers for what its worth. I feel that faith is a huge key for their survival. Whether God is real or not, I think by believing in a higher power it makes you stronger. Your faith can keep you going and that’s what the Haitians need to do. What’s happened to their lives is unimaginable and they need support from the rest of the world. Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:02:23 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/01/haitis-calamity__trashed/#IDComment53471620