Society sucks. Society, this invisible rulemaker, has done so much to- society. Our society has created so many problems. Immigrants are always going to be viewed badly for many reasons. For one, immigrants are stuck in a system impossible to perpetuate. They need foreign aid! They come to the US because they want money for their families. They know that the US has jobs that can support their families so the determined ones get up off their butts and somehow make it over here. Americans will always view them badly because of the fact that we use them. We have a system in place where businesses rely on immigrants when they are in need of cheap labor, and abandon them when they are suddenly doing well. When immigrants are getting jobs over highly qualified American Citizens, jealously is likely to be created. This tension gets spread through television, newspapers, and even first hand experience. It is no secret about the system that is put into placehow could we expect people to be happy about them. They are portrayed as the people who are trying to steal your jobs. These immigrants are trying to steal your job from the hardworking citizens of america, and this is not true. They just want to help their family. They have no control over the system that we put into place, that we now regret.

Take that immigrant for example that has been supporting those foreign workers with food everyday for three years. How can anyway just not like immigrants after seeing something like that. The problem is immigrants are rarely portrayed this way. Imagine if immigrants such as himself were portrayed on a daily basis just like non-immigrants? Then we could have a more balanced view of them. I believe this discomfort is created purposely by the media. We may be trying to make them the bad guy so that when those times come when the government is ok with not letting them in, or not giving them as many jobs, people wont feel as bad for them. We have simply dehumanized them from our society. Anytime a dog can nearly kill an innocent imigrant and a bill gets passed to save the dog, we know that we have some issues as a society. What kinda society takes that kind of priority over a human beings life. We all know if that was a little white girl that this would have been a whole other story (YOU KNOW ITS TRUE).

So in short, we as a society will not ever accept immigrants fully into our society because of the system put into place. As long as business have ups and downs, and other countries are poor, and the government switches between their regulation of immigrants entrance and jobs, they will not be liked. It is nothing that they are doing it is just us. We need to change this and mature as a society.

This is such an interesting topic to discuss!!! This debate has so much complexity. We have to weigh everything out and give some pretty good examples to back up our arguments tho! We must take into account the fact that we obviously have a very small capacity for remembering that much info in such a short time span, and that results in our brain to create false memories in place of the unknown in order to fill the void when trying to recall info. Also we should take into account the racial differences, which i think also played a huge role in the information that got passed. Notice the first student was mixed, and did NOT say the N word! I wonder If the student would have said the N word in explaining the story to a fellow black student! It is likely that due to Political Correctness. The mixed student likely had some uncomfortable feelings as soon as the word, came about, and probably reconstructed the story at that very moment. It all begins to make sense once you think about it.

I noticed the white kid had trouble admitting that the white kids initiated a fight with the african american students. Instead he referred to it as a stuffle (Whatever that is!). In this way it made the story completely un-racist although it clearly was.

We should also take into account that different words may mean the same thing and still be slightly different. For example, fight and argue. each student had a different vocab like the student in the other post mention. This causes the next listener to interpret the story slightly or vastly different. Either way the story is being changed the more ears it hits, and especially if i is of people of a different race.

Exercises such as these show us how stories get distorted so quickly because take the truth and shape it to our comfort. However, being uncomfortable takes away the raw details of a story, which is parallel to the race issue! In the same way when talking about racial issues we are afraid to tell the truth because we dont feel comfortable around the people we are talking to. A lot of it has to do with what we feel about others. In an effort to not come off as a racist we tend to sugarcoat the truths, which just sets us back as a society in the first place.

I do agree with the fact that the white people sugar coated the story more although some may disagree with me. It would be common for many people to say that maybe they just didn't hear the story correctly or maybe this wouldv'e happened anyway regardless of racial. I think those views fail to recognize and embrace realities of comfortableness.

I am so greatful for the ideas presented here! I truly believe that having a logo for the Haiti project can take their marketing so much further. We want to make sure they are able to make something with appeal. Think about it! If I have on a polo shirt for example, people automatically recognize my clothing! In the same way people will recognize a logo if it is seen over and over! If I see someone wearing a green t-shirt from Haiti, but see no logo im going to assume that it was just some T-shirt that they got from the corner store! Brands make products marketable! Hands Down!

All ideas are welcome and I really hope we can push to create something that will catch attention and expand to other universities!!!!!!!

On another note, I would like to add that i feel like anyone who has a talent should help Haiti. I wondered if I should further contribute, but I did not know how to help. Then I realized that I have a skill, aside from just thinking. I am an artist! I can make whatever I see, think of, or anything that someone tells me to make! I realized that in this way I can offer my talents to the Team! I encourage anyone has an ability to find a way to fit into the reconstruction of a country. It is possible but only through team-work and dedication.

Now about the actual logo. I would like to see people coming up with crazy abstract ideas! Something outside the box, and more importantly, something with a story to tell. Something that can easily strike a conversation! What makes any logo successful!? The simplicity of it along with the deeper meaning behind it! This is what we need! Please Help! I can come up with many Ideas but I want to include some thoughts from my classmates!

One theme that I want to incorporate into the theme is reconstruction, rebuilding, rebirth, something that will give them hope as the years go on. Then once the rebirth of Haiti is complete they can look back at it again and still tell a story!

No. Today's class about "The Needy Penis" told me absolutely nothing. I knew most of these concepts already. I am taking a Philosophy Love and sex class so I am in no way lost about their ideas concerning the needy penis. Actually, I can take it a step further and disagree with some of their ideas.

for example, at one point Sam stated what he believed sex is, for men and women, he clearly stated: Sex is and desires penetration. This idea is flawed in the sense that it leaves out so many real aspects to sex. To make my point clearer, let me provide another example. Imagine two lesbians are fondling with each other completely naked. they decide to kiss, engage in oral sex on each other, achieve orgasm and lay there feeling satisfied as if they had just had heterosexual sex with a male. In this senario, it would b completely closed minded to say that these people did not have sex because there was no penetration involved. They do not have penises, yet they defined sex in their way and got what they wanted out of the acts that they did.

Lets also look at some other facts. Women DO NOT need penetration. The clitoris is so undermined on the female body that it is a shame. In fact for a long time, anatomists left the clitoris out of the female anatomy books purposely to suppress female sexuality; dismissing it as a simple functionless nub. However, this "nub" is capable for more orgasms than a male could ever hope for! Also, when penetrating, there is actually very little sensation in the canal (aside from the Gspot, which many do not know where it is anyway...) most of the action here is still happening in the clitoris! Ahhh you didnt know that did you! When a vagina is being penetrated, the friction of the penis going in and out causes the clitoral hood to rub on the clit back and fourth bring about pleasure! You can imagine this being difficult for every woman to enjoy regarding how differently and unique every womans vagina is constructed. For example, some women have very little clits, some don't get as engorged, and some just deal with dummies who have not done the proper research and therefore has no idea what they are doing! Manual stimulation of the clitoris is left out, casuing so many women to be dissatisfied witht their experience when things could have been so different had they received oral sex and/or been rubbed to achieve orgasm and therefore get wetter!

So this idea of penetration, will only take you so far and by claiming that sex is penetration, our own Professor has actually unknowingly given in to the society's ideas of what it is to have sex and how sex should be! Well I say this is wrong because sex is what you make it relationship by relationship and it is a very mutable thing. Stop feeding into society's oppression of the female sexuality! I personally think the world would be better if they weren't so suppressed! (sigh) That would be great!

I have experienced it time and time again. There were plenty of times where I experienced blatant racism as well as the latent racism that Sam speaks about so often! There are also those moments when you wonder whether or not you have just experienced prejudice or racism or if its just me being too protective of my identity and dignity.

For example, I ran into a friend of mine who had other friends with her that were very much buzzed so to speak. One was rapping to a lil Wayne song that was playing and repeated each of the N Words that were repeatedly said throughout the song, and she was WHITE! I didnt let that bother me because I knew it was no harm intended and that she probably didnt see anything wrong with it. However, my ideas and feelings quickly changed. As we were walking out, she exclaimed "Come on...Nigga!" At that moment I felt very much confused. I did not know whether to correct her, or ride out with it or correct the feelings within myself. I decided not to confront her because I knew that we would not see eye to eye and I really did not feel like having conflict that night. However if I werent in the circumstances I was in I likely would have stood up for myself. I really dont like the word being used around me and I refrain from using it ever since I have been in school. Where I grew up it was a word that meant friend, and it was widely used, but my ignorance was quickly overpowered by knowledge and I decided that I despise the word.

I remember another time when I was on college ave and a white student holding a bottle of grey Goose vodka held his bottle up and said "wassup Ni**a" and That time I turned around to confront him and my friend grabbed me and pushed me along assuring me that it was not worth it. Honestly we probably would have gotten into a fight that night, not because the word hurts me but because of the blatant disrespect I felt coming from him.

Now I feel that people are "sick" when they have these issues with races just like the person who wrote about the guy in the pickup truck. I feel that Now I am at least at a pseudo-communitarian level where I can openly express myself. When I hear people make their racist remarks, I just feel sorry for them and hope that they will one day progress past their own ignorance ad learn to destroy the barriers that have plagued our society for so long! !

This question is not an easy one to answer. Considering there are many factors that play a role in this political ideology, pointing out a single answer is difficult. Some may parenting is the answer, another will stand up and say no its the media, another like me will say that it is a mentally passed down throughout the years and so on. I believe it is all of these things. The ingredients for disaster are carefully in place. Of course there may not be a white guy sitting around saying lets make all blacks disgusted of themselves, however, many things seem to indirectly, yet directly (if that makes sense) affect the minds of everyone. For example, many pointed to media as an answer to the issue but it is not a good enough answer. Yes, there are definitely many cartoons on Tv that only depict the white characters as the dominant characters and maybe one or two black characters mixed in but they are not blatantly saying "hey kids we are dominant and you are not beautiful!". The issue goes way deeper than that just as Sam was saying and it is truly baffling! Part of the problem is the idea that we have negative connotations associated with the color black. Black is dark, dirty, evil, and white is usually associated with cleanliness, godliness, and purity.

I feel that these ideas were put in place a long time ago and in some way, in a day and age where this is unacceptable YOUNG children are still somehow getting this message. What are they seeing to be able to say the black doll is the bad doll? Is there something that may be programmed into their little minds that has been passed down over the years? Or are their peers treating them differently from their lighter friends/siblings etc.

Keep in mind that parents enforce ideas also. Parents are the first teachers for a child and what ever they learn at the earlier years in their life sticks for a lifetime until corrected. I have some racist family members so i have witnessed it. I heard first hand a family member teaching their daughters that their black friends were dirty, because they were black. I corrected them when I knew what was going on.

There are too many ways that this message gets passed whether directly or indirectly. Many messages are subliminal others are deliberately discriminate, but whatever is going on it certainly is not good. Everyone is beautiful and the quicker society comes to this conclusion the quicker something as disturbing as this can be eliminated.

I personally am not upset or in dissonance with his plans. I agree that school is expensive and that its not fair to assume that because a white man is applying to college that he can pay for it! That is just as discriminatory and stereotypical than anything else! This man means well and actually does see the scope of everything. Whites are being left out of the equation and now this will likely pave the way for many more scholarships being created by other groups who want to make sure poor white men can afford to go to school. Although, he does have one flaw to his little plan.

There is one flaw with his plan though; poor white girls are clearly left out. His intentions are actually discriminating because you have to be a white male and im surprise that no one even picked up on this yet. So poor white males will get assistance but poor white females will continue to get left out of the equation. This should surely be changed. You cant claim to look at the whole scope and not include the females. Not fair.

Also I highly doubt he will deny funds from white supremists. For one he wont know if it is a white supremest offering money and two im sure if the KKK offered him a million he would gladly take it. This man is all about PR and you can tell by how he answered his questions.

I do like his idea i just wish he would help poor white people in general. i have poor white female friends that work hard every year to make sure they can go to schoool every semester with no problems. They will still have debt upon graduation. So in a way he is really helping his own >>White MALES! I am interetsed to hear his reason behind this!

I am sure other races will point the fingers at him (i understand his intentions so i am in no way offended) and call him racist and blah blah blah. He will face a lot of that but he is doing what he believes is right. I was a bit surprised that the requirement was to be 25% white! That caught me off guard, i almost feel like theres something wrong with that picture.

Before I went to college I would have saw this is as a racist move because before i didnt realize how many white people were in poverty and had to work so hard to keep up with tuition and food and whatnot. But especially since i am taking soc 119 i have open my ignorant mind and I can see the big picture now. The images of white Male college students is all about political ideology and thats why we fail to ackowledge the poor whites who want to go to school and its important that they are reached too because I grew up in a filthy neightborhood with no money and Its no different if i white person experiences it.

Lighter skin certainly has worked to my advantage over the years. There should be no dispute in any way that, and I can offer many examples to prove my point. Sam even touched on some of these points in class. Products that exist that promise to lighten your skin would not still be in business if there wasn't a market for it. many cultures are ashamed of their darker skin and some like Sicilians (which I am mixed with) hate the blood that they are mixed with because of it.

Here's one great historical example of how lighter skin got mixed Africans ahead in society. Remember that there were many types of slaves, but in general the ones that stayed in and didn't work in the field had lighter skin, while the darker skinned slaves were forced to do the more tedious field work. This is certainly a light skinned privilege!

Also think about the african americans who were able to slip through the cracks and get educated! The ones with lighter skin, though still facing discrimination were able to go to school and have better jobs than darker skinned african americans. This still holds true today. Consider a Psychological test in which people were testing how others perceive criminals based on their skin color. They lined a white woman and an lighter african american and ask who they thought was more likely to have completed the crime. The light skin woman would be accused. Then when paired with a dark skinned african american, the light skinned woman would be deemed innocent! So this says that the latent prejudice is operating in these perceptions. It seems to be embedded in our thoughts. Just as Sam stated in his book, There are so many things in life that is bad that has the word black attached to it (Black magic, Black death etc.). so with all of these negative connotations stemming from the word how is one to imagine black as beautiful, friendly, or respectful? It is impossible. And whats even worse is that the term black is usually an acceptable term so the negative connotations associated with being black will certainly never disappear.

Just like there is a white privilege, there is also the "Light skin privilege, and I have it. I cant completely attribute my successful speeches, friendly approaches, and the fact that I have white friends on the fact that I am Light skinned, but I can certainly say it is a factor. Some black people are afraid to meet whites just for the sole reason of their skin complexion, but my comfortableness and my realization of the privilege broke me out of that barrier. Lighter skin does benefit regardless of what anyone says

Sam sure provokes a lot of thought, anger, self judgment, and challenges to our own self image when he exposes us to the horrors other parts of the world. I grew up poor (certainly in those lower rungs of the income ladder) but most of the time I didnt complain, knowing that I'd eat every night and I had family and a roof over my head. Other times I'd feel miserable for not having any money, or not being able to get a job or buy that pair of sneakers I wanted or that new video game that came out. Until I began working and making my own money. I'm able to buy just about whatever I want, if I work hard enough and save up. i could no longer have even half a doubt in my mind that my situation was better than others.

I have always thought about the idea that there are really people out there that have nothing. That work for a penny a day, or simply dont even get paid. I honestly thought that Africans were not slaves any more, I knew it exists but I thought it only exists in other races. The slaves that were harvesting the Coacoa was a real eye opener and creates such a loophole in our hopes to resolve the issue. On one hand you want to say dont buy it. Ironically though, by not buying you are making the cotton cheaper. And by buying you are supporting, So how do we fix it?

I didnt eat the chocolate from the begininng because I knew Sam had some crazy experiment for us. I still can feel the conviction in my gut even when i think about it. How can I eat chocolate now? I do realize that it is not my fault, or our fault because we did not know but we knew about the other things. We knew about cell phone peices and where they come from. We knew about our sneakers, handbags, jewerlys, hats, ties, underwear, socks, and everything else that IS NOT MADE IN AMERICA!

It saddens me that we run around complaining all day about how much we dont have when in reality, we have it all. Running water, a nice wooden/carpetted floor, a bed, fresh food, medicine, order, you name it, its here in America. Unfortunately, we have all this money, while other countries have wasted minds. Un-nurtured brains that will just die. These are still people and have just as much a chance to make a difference in our world but cant because they die everyday because they are POOR and cant AFFORD the things that they NEED.

I challenge Everyone to think about how much money you spend in a month on things you dont need. Iced Carmel Lattes, Smoothees, 600$ single item clothes, excess shoes, you name it. This is our world and we cannot just settle on I dont have because thats not true.

Sam's demonstration in class of "The King of the Mountain" was excellent! Some didnt agree with this dea and saw it as racist, however, I had a stronger understanding of exactly what he means. The student next to me, a young african american girl was extremely upset about his demonstration. She felt as if Sam was just making things up and that his theory was completely false. I on the other can see how this example relates to our lives. It makes perfect sense.

If you look at history there are many accounts of this phenomenon taking place. Lets first look at the the take over of the Native American Land. White people came in, slaughtered the Native Americans on their own soil, and clearly made the rules as to who had all the power. The Native Americans had not much of a choice and believed that the whites were superior, and the whole point of the King of the hill is to establish this fear and superiority over the oppressed. To make them believe that they cannot rise, that they are stuck at the bottom.

Another historical example is the enslavement of the Africans. Again we see the King of the hill example taking place. How much control did the africans have? How many were allowed to read without getting hung or whipped? How many were able to own land or get a job? Even worse is that were not able to say no. These people had no freedom, and why? Because the whites made them believe that they didn't. Just like Sam said, we all have free will, but the whole idea of the king of the mountain makes you believe that you don't! The main ingredient is self-doubt. Regardless of the fact that they were eventually freed the effects still linger even today.

Today, the King of the Hill is indeed still a white man. In my Soc 119 class a student asked "Although we now have a black president, has the King of the Hill changed?" The answer is no. I argued along with another student that one man cannot make that difference. It didnt take one white man to take over America. So likewise one (half) black man is not going to make that difference that some are looking for. Another reason is the idea that our president does not have complete control over everything anyway. The Givernment is without a doubt mostly white anyway. The House of representatives, governers, Senate, etc. are all still mostly white, and Barrack Obama has to still get things passed through them. Also lets look at the example of inequality in schools. The public school that Sam showed us in class was very similar to the one I attended with very little resources, metal detectors, and lower quality education. However, look at the schools in the Suburban areas that he showed us occupied by mostly whites. It is no secret that they were there first and they decided (through unseen factors) to make it difficult to let blacks in. I learned that one way in which a schools resources, design, teachers, and overall quality is decided by how rich the area is. So if the property taxes of one neighborhood is high then the school will be of great quality and of course if it is low then poor quality. One way to ensure that blacks stay down in there community is make sure they are in a system where they will always have bad resources! It sucks but the King of the Hill is in place for sure and it has certainly made my think differently.