en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/769375 Comments by rbjess https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/what-about-health-care__trashed/#IDComment70549776 Should healthcare be an equal right for everyone, I take a look at it both ways. Yes it should be a right for everyone, who decided to be god and tell people that that they don’t have the chance to live because they don’t have the money to get help but the resources are available then why not. Health care is fundamental part of life but is it really a right or more of a luxury, in the end people who control healthcare will end up controlling healthcare and if those people are in charge and its their industry then they can actually exclude who ever they want to really. It’s a sad thing to say but that’s the world that we live in. Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:21:17 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/what-about-health-care__trashed/#IDComment70549776 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/what-about-people-who-can-only-afford-hard-work__trashed/#IDComment70549120 In the end you have to do what you have to do to get ahead in life. If that means being an illegal immigrant and working your ass off just so you know that your child is going to have a better life and if your fine with that then go out and do it. The thing is people do that I think its fine for some one to come and do whatever it takes. People often forget that this is how this country the USA was founded. I think that there is notation that working outside makes you less of a person being it’s so great in American and everyone wants to be a millionaire. But to answer you question no people do what they do for reasons and im cool with it. Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:14:22 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/what-about-people-who-can-only-afford-hard-work__trashed/#IDComment70549120 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/300000-whats-it-mean-to-us__trashed/#IDComment70547987 This question really does have a lot of answers I think. The first thing I would like to say is that three hundred thousand is a lot of people who died and that is some thing very serious that I honestly feel that a lot of people do not really understand. I also remember that guy in class who really summed it up when he put it in the perspective that 300,000 people died and hour flight trip away from Miami. That really mad me think that this type of natural disaster could really happen anywhere that there is the tectonic plates that move underground. Its just crazy that, this happened and I understand what this young lady is talking about how Haitians are just going on with their life and to say if someone loses a loved one its devastating and you take off a week or two just to get your head straight. In Haiti’s case a great part of the population has losed somebody and I wouldn’t even begin to describe the feelings that the people of Haiti have to get through emotionally. The fact that I feel that a lot of people form the united states and people from all across the would can just move on after a couple of weeks is that fact that when some one loses a loved one and takes weeks off is because that actually does effect someone directly. Its sad to say but don’t think that a lot of Americans and people from across the world really have direct ties to Haiti that would make them grieve for so long. I don’t think its that fact that people don’t care I just think that it is different for people that didn’t know anyone there and some people would say that this is just life process. I would also like to believe that we really all in it together and yes it is one world, but you have to remember that this would is split in so many ways that people are not going to just wake up one day and say hey everyone is going to love each other and care about each other, I believe that most human beings as a species are very me centered and tend to just say when natural disasters like something like this happens that most people would just say that yea that terrible what happened and in some type of way they are happy that did not happen to them. Another thing that I would like to say its always going to be easier for someone to say that we should just move on to someone when its not them who has been affected. They don’t know just like I don’t know about those 300,000 people I don’t know I cant really understand their situation because im not n it and that why people would say we need to move on but yeah people will dwell when they lose their family, life, and way of understanding how the world works. Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:03:40 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/300000-whats-it-mean-to-us__trashed/#IDComment70547987 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/what-about-the-men__trashed/#IDComment68397812 Guys are always conforming to society just like women. What’s one thing that everyman really wants, they want to have a job, a girlfriend for the most part, and be happy. Well I tell you not everyone wants to be working in an office building and a lot of people do so they are conforming right there. You ever go out at night and see guy dressed in jeans and a button down theirs an example. If you ever walk into a gym and see a bunch of guys working the glamour muscles, which are the arms and chest then yeah, they are. Guys are just as worried about what girls think about them they just don’t have to care as mush because well there are guys. Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:04:20 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/what-about-the-men__trashed/#IDComment68397812 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/creating-terrorists__trashed/#IDComment68396981 There comes a time and a place where people have to make a decision on whether you life and I mean your life is worth the fight and the cause that you are fighting for. Men and Women got to war everyday knowing that their life is on the line every time that they are in enemy area or in some type of battle. This holds to more of the past such as the civil, world wars, and Vietnam. But the fact of the matter if someone loses a loved one and decides to go kill the people that did this to their loved one can you really say that their actions aren’t justified. I know this is a crazy world we live in but when people see injustices going on in the world there are people that will stop and nothing to make sure that those people will pay and its really a matter of what angle you look at it from but I would have to say people will give there life if they think that the cause that they are supporting is bigger than they will ever be. Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:56:53 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/creating-terrorists__trashed/#IDComment68396981 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/christian-invaders-the-turnaround__trashed/#IDComment68395912 I get the point of what Sam conveyed to us during the lecture on the fact that no one really has the right to go out and kill people but now I really do have a better understanding of the why this happens. I thought that this one of Sam’s best lectures he really put it in a different perspective of how the Middle East may portray the west and the reasons that there is so much conflict between these two parts of the country. I would feel the same way if I thought that people wanted to come to my land and exploit it or think that the Americans want to come over and try to convert everyone to Christianity. I also feel that is the same for both Americans and people of the Middle East though. It’s a two way street I America people think that they want everyone to be convert to Islam vice versa when in fact that is just what people see like Sam said that s what people see on the internet and know one really knows anyone they just hear it through the media and how the media portrays both people which probably is not a god thing that media how that mush power to ultimately sway the opinions of such large masses but that’s a topic for another day. This lecture really opened me up to an idea that I never really thought about and it all come together really that that is how it works. I really had no clue or even paid attention to the fact that so many missionaries are out there trying to convert people to Christianity. Yeah I get it these people are doing Gods work and they are going out to spread the word of Christ because that what missionaries do and well for the most part people don’t do that. The same could be said the Islamic missionaries who go out and try to convert people to Islam is just people doing their own thing and yea it pisses some people off but who is really to say that they should not be able to do that. That right there is going to make people angry if people went to a dominantly Christian area and tried to convert people to Islam I’m sure that would not respond to warmly t those people. This is an interesting topic to bring up because there are so many ways to look at it and with that brings a lot of different ways people find to justify how they can act towards each other. How this causes so much hate, hurt, anguish, and how this topic of ethnocentrism can really lead to wars and how these wars are justified makes me wonder a little about the world that I live in today. Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:48:37 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/christian-invaders-the-turnaround__trashed/#IDComment68395912 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/i-really-want-to-know-also__trashed/#IDComment66821580 Well for one it’s probably because you are a tool bag but just the obvious answer. You crave attention and choose not to understand anything in class. I don’t even have to look at the other comments to know that people are chewing this kid up. You are what is wrong with America and also what make America powerful today don’t take that as a compliment. Yeah Sam does open up different views of people but that’s all he is trying to do is get 700 kids to think about things in different ways. Yeah same you got to me this semester it’s just I really have mostly the same views before coming into class. Btw Sonics jersey =LAME. Fri, 9 Apr 2010 15:50:15 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/04/i-really-want-to-know-also__trashed/#IDComment66821580 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/nothing-about-the-census-is-easy__trashed/#IDComment66818122 So we are counting the number of Americans in this country. Does anyone really believe that everyone in this huge country can be happy when they are trying to count everybody by giving them a piece of paper? I can see how people would really be offended by this the word negroe being on the census but people need to realize that the census people are not idiots and they put this together on the hopes that people will just fill it out honestly and send it back so you can be counted. Honestly I the only reason people on Cnn made a big deal out of it was well because they brought it up so they could start a news story and the news loves a good racial story to show how terrible America is some respects. Just take a second to think about this stopping and reading this question for twenty minutes I like taking a small quiz and debating what the answer is on something that let’s face it has no real effect on your life. No one dies from the fact that the word Negro is on the Census and come on if there was a TV camera in front of me I would make a bigger deal out of nothing too but I probably wouldn’t because I know that that just a time waster also. The word is on there because older blacks want that word on the census we can’t forget about the people that actually lead the civil rights movement that really know what racism is those people know what the word Negro is on there for, I don’t think that they will be complaining too much. People in this country are too sensitive to the little thing we all need to wake up and realize we are in it together and no one is going anywhere. America is this huge melting pot were far better off with civil rights then most parts of the world, but still were nowhere near perfect and I don’t expect to see perfection anytime soon in my lifetime or lifetimes after mine. We all need to just realize what we can do one by one and that is raising children and break down color barriers. I sure that most people won’t even think two seconds that the word Negro is on the census and I’m sure that some will be upset that it is on there. You just have to realize that with something like this not everyone can be happy because we don’t live in a quaint world like that at all. The word is on their its 2010 this place it way better that it was 100 years ago can we just not be forward looking, we should not forget the past but let’s not dwell on it that just causes inefficiencies in moving forward we are all pursuing happiness and well life isn’t really that fair everyone knows that. Fri, 9 Apr 2010 15:28:57 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/nothing-about-the-census-is-easy__trashed/#IDComment66818122 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/what-are-all-of-you-thinking-about-asians__trashed/#IDComment64221486 Can I distinguish between Asian and Asian American? Yea bro I def can I love everybody but you can defiantly tell. I think its really about the clothes that are worn is a typical dead give away at least for the girls. If you don’t know what them means I would say Asian girls who are from Asia are a little more conservative then Asian Americans and they wear more flashy types of articles of clothing. For the guys a lot of Asians in general have cool hair dos but in general all you have to do is hear someone talk for about 10 seconds to find out. Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:12:33 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/what-are-all-of-you-thinking-about-asians__trashed/#IDComment64221486 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/in-her-own-words__trashed/#IDComment64220712 Ok so my girlfriend gets a period and bleeds and I know that she is not happy when this happens. I honesty cannot say that I know what these cramps and bleeding would ever feel like. I do understand though that this must be rough on women physically and mentally. I would like to say to all women that read this that I truly admire you all for what you have to go though. Like Sam said this is in realty is a mans world but without women there would be no world. Your gender keeps us going and you in return keep going rock on ladies. Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:05:30 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/in-her-own-words__trashed/#IDComment64220712 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/is-this-just-a-few-bad-apples__trashed/#IDComment64219354 How this article ended is what is most disturbing to me. That them shouting and protesting really might now even be about healthcare after all. In other words “some” of these people are just doing this to cause uproar. Now first things first I don’t think that changing healthcare is going to be the greatest thing to happen in America ever but nontheless it’s probably a good thing. But to shout those obscenities at members of congress, yes members of congress is just plain wrong. I get it the American people are supposed to keep the government in check when they think that something is going wrong. But to use words of hatred against lawmakers isn’t the answer. One of the worst things is John Lewis being called a nigger and saying that he hasn’t seen hostility like that since the 1960s in the heat of the civil rights movement. I mean what’s going on America are will still that far behind in some ways. MY thought is that yes we are enough people don’t understand that those things are not to be tolerated anymore and someone should have just punched that guy in the face. To tell me your fighting against healthcare reform first off then to tell me you call a black congressmen a nigger and a gay congressmen a foggot tells me you don’t know what your really protesting. I think to many whites think this world is for them and all the blacks, gays, and foreigners are below them is one thing that really gets me after 22 years in this place. We have to realize we are all in it together. And yeah it should be a crime to think this way because it only causes more hatred and violence and wrongs many people. This world is a crazy place and things like this happen though. As for the protesters not even protesting against healthcare that’s what eats me. I don’t understand how people can be so against something that is supposed to be helping so many. Is there really that many people that think healthcare should be a privilege that only people with adequate funds should receive. That when people assume that they are more important that others and that healthcare is not a right for everyone. Well listen to this nothing was ever a right in America until lawmakers decided it was. People don’t realize this when people go off and say the right to free speech the right to protest, there was a time when these weren’t rights that people freely had. Now I know I am getting historical but they are now trying to make healthcare affordable for everyone and people are complaining about it. If is that bad then all the people can vote for a new president and he can sign an executive order to get rid of it in a couple of years anyway, that’s how a democracy works which people don’t understand cause they didn’t pay attention in school but can call someone who has done a lot more for this country than them a fag or n%gger. Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:56:03 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/is-this-just-a-few-bad-apples__trashed/#IDComment64219354 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/does-this-rudeness-thing-cut-both-ways__trashed/#IDComment63037357 Kyle you got it right its just people being people and that’s life. You can look at it a thousand different ways with no one really having a right or wrong answer. As for me I sit in that class and its seems as though I already got it. Maybe it was the one time I did shrooms and realized that our exteriors are just the way we look like Sam said it’s a joke that God is playing on us. I look at and think there is 600 college students in this class and not anyone can really say they no everything, which is the beauty of it. No one knows just live your life. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:20:18 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/does-this-rudeness-thing-cut-both-ways__trashed/#IDComment63037357 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/prom-or-no-prom-just-dont-let-the-queer-students-dance-together__trashed/#IDComment63036351 What else is new in America, can anyone love who they want to love with out getting shit from someone else especially the lesbians and gays. Its troubling but what’s life with out adversity this girl now has to deal with being the one that cancelled prom which is really going to make it even worse. That’s the thing I am angry with the school for cancelling prom I could care less that she wanted to bring a girl like I feel most people are. For one this happened in the south, which doesn’t surprise me. When our generation is 30 and 40 years old the world will be different and these stories wont exist that is the time I am waiting for. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:12:12 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/prom-or-no-prom-just-dont-let-the-queer-students-dance-together__trashed/#IDComment63036351 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/this-is-getting-to-be-too-much__trashed/#IDComment63012607 I think that’s its fair to say that there are going to be racial tensions and problems going on in this world for the rest of my life and most likely my children’s life and so on. I understand what’s going on this campus and on the other hand I really don’t. I going to try and break this down the best that I can. There was a party on campus with the theme of baggy clothes and dressing ghetto the keyword being ghetto that seemed to anger the students that this was from my guess at the interview a mostly white party. I get it these angers minority students because it seems that people are poking fun at the way people dress. The other incident that triggered this great outcry of racial tension was the hanging of a noose in the library which you would have to be crazy to do that in America today. If I had to guess and only come out with the truth I would say that everyone one thought that this was done by a person of European descent “white”. So young people got a reason to start a rally which is good because people should really stand up for what they believe is wrong and this is something that is definitely wrong and has no place in today’s society if we are to move forward as a whole. But what get me is this even though that these things were done, the idea for the party came from a black guy who is friends with some guys in a frat and they went with it because well it seems as though people in Cali cant come up with cool party themes even though if they thought a little longer they could have realized that there in Cali and they don’t need themes cause its warm all the time. The noose which made headline new was hung by a minority student because well there most likely insane or just really don’t care. Ok now I wonder if the students knew this beforehand if it would have made such a big deal. I am almost at the conclusion where I don’t get it why people just can’t get along. As for this older white woman who is the chancellor of the university she probably has some nice credentials but come on a two hour lecture you had to know that that was not going to work. I see why he walked out but also if this lady is going to do this that guy have to look pretty ignorant walking out of that room and saying he wants more. But on the other hand he has to do what he has to do to get his point across. But don’t say on an interview on CNN that when he heard that noose was hung by a minority student that changes the story and it does no matter how you look at it. Yes its terrible but let’s no through people under the bus when you don’t know the story I the first place. In the end people come to rash judgments real quick in life its always going to happen you have to deal with it, you have to over on with your life and stand up for what’s right. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:23:05 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/this-is-getting-to-be-too-much__trashed/#IDComment63012607 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/when-do-we-do-or-say-something__trashed/#IDComment58906331 For people to say that its not their place they are just doing what they think is the right thing to do. In fact the more people that do stand up for what is right are the ones that people look at say, “What are you talking about?” Sometimes they are ridiculed for standing up for something that they believe in. But the fact is these are the people that care and create change. The people that butt in and get their point across, and help others out, are the ones that America needs most. For someone to say it is not their place to step in is one who does not fully grasp the idea of what standing up for someone really means. It is all about compassion, something that most lack, but can learned. Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:26:27 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/when-do-we-do-or-say-something__trashed/#IDComment58906331 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/native-americans-question-one__trashed/#IDComment58905299 I totally agree that we should change the way that children are taught about American Indians. Yes the education should be taught and this should be known. People really need to know the true history of what has happened in America. Ashamed of it or not. This is something that affects so many lives today and if people understood this at a very young age then possibly many more people would care about the treatment of American Indians. This is something that people should not forget about it is a part of history and should be taught to young Americans to better suited for the real world and learn more about the truth of American history. Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:15:12 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/native-americans-question-one__trashed/#IDComment58905299 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/who-could-compete-with-this-woman-on-a-level-playing-field__trashed/#IDComment58902034 Sam come one lets not go and say that every business student thinks that they are going to be making 100k and going to have management positions. Me and you both know that the students here don’t really think that and I know you talk about you only say those things to get people thinking but when its flat out slander your really putting some people out to dry. As for this amazing lady who is out on her own and making a living and the way she is doing it is quite unreal. There are many people I know that have almost completed degrees that really don’t understand exactly what this lady is doing. I really think that it is amazing how she is pulling this off. Her understanding of the finical system is very noteworthy. I also like the idea at the end of the radio broadcast that the leader of economic development supported her but also why don’t they do more of that. Its also goes to show that yes people are lucky in the fact that they get to go to college for a lot of reasons but the fact that there are so many people who have the untapped potential to go to and even excel in college should make people feel even more responsible for the fact that they get to go to college. I know truthfully people don’t even realize that there is people out there that could take someone spot in the work world just as easy. Just because they are not educated enough sets people back so far and we think that is amazing that someone from Haiti actually understand finance and there are able to do stuff like that really doesn’t surprise me. People surprise each other everyday and anyone can do anything that they set their mind to. I love to see it when people succeed and have the will and determination to go fourth and put an effort to make themselves better off. As for that fact that people bore a couple thousand miles away a completely different life. Well that life and until we are completely a global economy it most likely gin to stay that way with people on the top trying to stay there. And people being uneducated not becoming educated to help themselves out. But people will breakthrough the mold. We see it with this lady how see figures it out sooner or later people will figure thing s out and this just gets to show that this will eventually happen one day. Haiti has a chance to recover now and people will start to come out on top of this and hopefully help others along the way. This earthquake will totally reconstruct the way HATAI is ran and I hope it for the better. Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:42:10 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/who-could-compete-with-this-woman-on-a-level-playing-field__trashed/#IDComment58902034 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/lgbt-class-question-one__trashed/#IDComment57651259 My thoughts are there is absolutely no difference the children are going to get harassed in school for having gay parents if they are male or female. If you have to break it down I would prefer two males they would probably most likely have a higher income and possibly give children a better life. But having two moms would be great also because you would just be a better person. Which bring me to the thought that having one of each would probably be the best for any child? It sucks that this is the way I feel but I think it’s because I know it’s true having gay parents probably isn’t the best thing but its going to happen and as long as a child is cared for and given love isn’t all that truly matters in this harsh would we live in. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:36:04 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/lgbt-class-question-one__trashed/#IDComment57651259 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/lgbt-class-question-six__trashed/#IDComment57650263 Why are lesbians more accepted then gay men? I’ll try to answer this question to the best of my abilities. First of all I am a heterosexual male and I know firsthand in my 22 years experience I can put a little input on to this topic. The first point I would like to bring up is growing up as a boy most boys hang out with other little boys and that’s where you learn most about social norms and how to act. Even little girls see how boys are supposed to act. From my experience boys are supposed to like sports, like getting dirty, be free and do whatever they feel like doing. This is where it starts and continued for a long time that boys are supposed to chase girls and that is seen as the norm. It’s almost that it is born into people that boys should like girls and do masculine things. I tend to think that all males to stereotypical male things and being gay is something so against this norm that it’s truly unacceptable. If a young boy were to ever tell his father that he is gay the first thing people think is a dad going to get a gun and kill himself or disown his son. Like in the movie wedding crashers the son who is artsy and gay as fuck is the guy that no one wants to be. That is the way people feel about gay guys like what’s wrong with that guy not playing football and painting a portrait of some guy for. I know it’s not fair but it true most people are tolerable of gay guys but it’s like come on man your having sex with another guy and most people would say that’s not cool. For girls you have everything going for you. The media loves to portray women and these beautiful sex objects and if two girls are making out or seen as lesbians it almost the sweetest thing in the world for some people to see. Even though that not the case it’s usually two overweight or butch lesbians they are lesbians none the less and it’s seen as ok there lesbians. I also think that it has something to do with the way that each has sex or pleases each other. We all get it that if a gay man is having sex he is having a penis put in his anus and that’s what gets most people it has too, I would say that most females do not do this or they think that this is same type of taboo. The fact that if you’re a gay guy and your having butt sex all day just gets to people and they don’t want to think about that. It seen as so wrong that a male is having sex with another guy. On the other hand girls for the most part are seen as submissive and already are the ones who are being injected in intercourse so it seems fine that two women can scissor each other or bring toys into the bedroom. It’s really just a double standard I think, but hey that’s life and people will come around eventfully but until then I think that these reasons are pretty good. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:27:40 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/lgbt-class-question-six__trashed/#IDComment57650263 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/lgbt-class-question-five__trashed/#IDComment57650045 Now I’m for gay marriage and those people should have all the rights that marriage should allow but hey this is what some people think. When you enter into a marriage you do it because you love each other not for the tax breaks right. You get married because you want to have children and grown as a family. Well there it is other than the fact that two people of the same sex can’t have children and be a real family it make no sense to say that they are really married and can procreate. Yeah that is a little Christian right wing but the 80’s were Christian right wing. Older people don’t want to hear this bull shit that gays are equal they didn’t grow up that why. Don’t worry they will all be dead one day and gays will freely marry each other and everyone will be the same and the world will be in peace. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:26:41 +0000 https://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/02/lgbt-class-question-five__trashed/#IDComment57650045