I recently found out a majority of the kids who were destructive with the media van were high schoolers. Of course I am not sure how much of this is true, but if it is true, this is a huge deal. The media talked about how destructive Penn State students are, and it may not even have been us. Also, outside of the crisis matter, over 80 percent of people that get drunk at state pattys day and are extremely sloppy are not even from here! They may be penn state Altoona, or anywhere else, even high shcoolers, but they arent even mostly us! This is insane. At this point, I can just say I am not sure who to believe, and I will now think twice before I draw any conclusions or believe anything.
. A little less than two weeks ago, I read in the collegian how Joe Pa helped in giving our athletes an above 80 percent graduation rate. And now, American is seeing him as a monster. And it is all because the media portrayed him that way. With knowing how the media works, I have also learned how not to be judgemental. Now, whenever I hear an allegation I will not jump the gun and join the finger pointing gallery. I will actually look into the allegation, and begin to draw my own view and opinion on the matter. And even still with my opinion, I will not point a finger. This is because I wasn’t there for whatever it was that happened. You will never fully get the truth unless you were there. Very important things, that may even seem small but are still very important, are left out. I cannot draw any correct conclusion without full proof. Something else I learned, is things are never what they seem.
This is a great question. I have learned so much in the past couple weeks its incredible. The first and biggest thing that I learned is you cant trust the media. Most Americans, and I am saying most because I am not sure, use newspapers, internet, televisions, and radios to get their information on the world. And most of that information that they receive, the see it as true 9 times out of 10. Being a Penn Stater, I watched a whole nation believe in the media. Actually reading the report and following up on everything, I knew that these people weren’t receiving the correct information. It got to a point so bad, ESPN had to get on television and tell the nation that Joe Paterno wasn’t the one who did the alleged crimes. Nit once for a whole week did they even show a picture of Sandusky. They only showed Joe Paterno, thinking of ways to get people all stirred up over a man who was the only one who reported the crime. All because he was so prestigious and did so much for Penn State, helping to make it one of the best schools in the nation. A little less than two weeks ago, they had a documentary on Joe Paterno as a legend.
So why would I stop in taking coacoa that is already produced? Wouldn’t that be like the slaves are working hard for no reason. Wouldn’t that be making coacoa they produced waste? The answer to this question I believe is yes. Its just like when you use paper and people say save the trees! The poor tree is already dead. Lets not make the trees death and vain and use what he produced from dying.
With all this being said, by the next two days, on the cold Thursday, I had a hot chocolate. Not even thinking about how I felt the two days before. Its just my whole life, when it was cold, I got hot chocolate. It was like instinct in a way. Cold=hot chocolate. But after I did this, I felt bad again. Because I had forgotten. I forgot how the people had and are still suffering because of the coacoa beans used to help produce my hot chocolate. So naturally, I just started thinking about the topic again. Then I figured, the coacoa is already made. Me changing my intake of slave made chocolate will not change the demand of chocolate by a long shot. I don’t even eat or drink chocolate that often.
I actually was the one who asked this question. I was very interested in seeing how people reacted. Whether they reacted similarly or differently, and why they maybe reacted this way. I was very shocked to see the majority of people ate chocolate immediately after. After I watched that video I felt so guilty. I would have to say that what got me most was seeing their scars. And even worse the statement that one of the former slaves, whom was a slave for 5 years and witnessed so many other slaves beaten sometimes to death, said at the end of the video. When he said he would be very angry at people like us who eat slave made chocolate, and it would be like eating his flesh, it totally made me just lose my complete appetite for chocolate. He used the word “flesh” in reference to chocolate. This was very disturbing to me and a complete turn off from chocolate. I don’t want to eat anyone’s flesh. Nor do I want to make it seem like I don’t care about what goes on with these people. Its very sad that even now we still have slavery.
Just to walk around and see black or brown people all the time boggles my mind. I can believe its going to happen because of immigration and interracial couple, but its still unbelievable to think about. I just cant believe that superior whites allowed this this happen. And I’m almost frightened to see the outcome of this if whites that are racist don’t take this too well. I mean, I guess we have to wait 20 years to actually see what’s going to happen,.
There will be so much confusion because its such a significant change in what has been going on for so many years. You would also be very cautious, and afraid. Then questions will arise, how did this change happen why is it happening, and what will be the result of this happening. I’m very curious of how white people will then respond with these questions. Will racism be eliminated because they feel outnumbered, or will it become worse because they are afraid. In the past, when slaves were freed and whites were outnumbered, they came up with the gun laws that legalized guns. Will they come up with something else because they are outnumbered?? Now that I am bringing that up, it is actually frightening to think about. I only hope that they can just be like the black and brown people of present day and just adapt. Try to live their lives like usual, just without as many people that look like them. This is crazy to think about.
I am an African American female. The fact that whites will be a minority will not significantly affect me. The biggest part that will affect me is I won’t feel like the classic “the only black person in the room” all the time, like I usually do now. Especially being here in Pennsylvania and at Penn state where there is a dramatic drop in the black population as compared to the white population. When it comes to whites, I definitely feel like this would freak them out. But I also feel that this isn’t there fault. And here is why. For centuries blacks have been the minority. And thus, blacks have become use to this. It isn’t a huge deal if you are in a room full of white people, because its what your use to, what your parents and grandparents were use to ect. The fact that there will be a whole change in how the United States will look will come as a shock to white people. Its just human nature to freak out due to these changes I think. For example, if everyday your parents made you eat broccoli, carrots, and salad for dinner, then one night they give you cake and fudge brownies, your going to freak out.
Like my one friend who commented that people who were working and getting paid in the south dining commons was an equivalent to an African American slave. It was actually very insulting, but I shook it off and just seen it as ignorance. Then I don’t have any stage four or five friends. But you can see I have the stages of friends that kind of clash with each other. It can be really annoying especially sitting at a dinner table with all types. You got the ones who talk to much and don’t speak up enough And just let ignorance go with the stage fours. But I think the stages we are in have a lot to do with the people we grew up with and how they viewed racism. Its just human nature, especially as a child, to just do things sometimes just because your friend is. Now I’m not talking about something deathly but something so much as an idea or opinion on racism can rub off so easily
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