Wiki project

When we started the wiki project we determined that three of us would do three sections and that I would do one and put everything on the wiki. However, this was not upheld. Three of us held our ends of the deal, and one of us did not. One person even went above and beyond the call to pick up the slack and our group was still one section short. It is very frustrating to be in a group that all doesn't work together and hold up their ends of the bargain. So this project was very frustrating for me as well as I know of one other person that feels the same.

Journal #8

Reading in Obama's and Clinton's speeches about how the problems that we usually associate with the minority population are growing faster in the white majority population than in the minority population caused me to reconsider my thoughts. Discrimination is taught as I had said before. However there is another cause that isn't taught. The need to blame someone else for your problems combines with teaching to form general discrimination. Many people look at someone who doesn't look like them and say "you are the reason that I'm..." or "It's your fault that I'm." America can't afford to wait for things to turn for the better. America as a whole needs to change, now.

Journal #7

Hearing about the study that the one African American did where he dressed as a white man in NY and then dressed as himself, participating in everyday activities as he did this made me think. Is discrimination really that bad in America today? There are many people who think that we have made such great strives in terms of race and discrimination over the last few years and we have, sort of. On a large scale level we have, electing the first Black president ever in history. However, the small everyday things, have not yet disappeared, and those are the things that really need to change.

Journal #6

If anybody has been in our school in recent times they have been sure to notice that there are certain "clicks" that like to hang together, especially at lunch. This creates an equality problem in school. If someone that is an "outsider" so-to-speak tries to sit at someone's table the people at the table raise a big stink about it. So why does this occur? The discrimination in our schools is staggering and mind blowing. These kinds of actions need to be eliminated if we are to work towards an equal society.

Journal #5

Even when you think you know somebody as being someone who strives to end discrimination, you don't. Someone I know the other day said something about the Chinese that I thought he would never say. One of my other friends was talking in an Asian accent and my friend said "(Insert name here) you're not talking right because I can understand you too well." It leads to the question, is everyone a little bit racist? My belief is that this is true. I don't think that there is anyone on the Earth that could say (without lying) that they have never had a racist thought, even a tiny one. It is ingrained in our heads, whether through parents or pop culture. And no matter who tries to stop it, no one can stop every racist thought that passes though the human mind.

Journal #4

It's sad to think of the discrimination we still have in schools today. And it's not just happening here it's happening everywhere. Kids are growing up learning racial slurs as well as racist thoughts implanted into them from their parents. Yes, I said the parents. As many people would like not to believe, I believe that it is the parents that influence the kids, not pop culture (although that does have something to do with it.)

As much as we deny it, the parents have the greatest influence on their children. Any little subtle thing that a parent does, such as a small leaning away from somebody, can tell a child that a person is "bad." Or it can tell a kid that that person "should be moved away from."

This needs to be stopped. Parents need to be more responsible for their actions.

Journal #3

Why would FDR do something like that? Why would he place ordinary people in internment camps like that? Defense, maybe. Security of the nation, possible. But regardless of the reason someone somewhere had to have stood up against this terrible atrocity. Yes, there was a terrible resentment towards any Japanese person in the world by Americans after Pearl Harbor was bombed. However, the ethics of internment camps was terribly out of line. We hated when Hitler put the Jews in concentration camps and slaughtered them. But when we put Japanese in internment camps it suddenly became ok? The hypocrisy of this entire nation just annoys the you-know-what out of me. It's ok when we do something we know is wrong, but when somebody else does the same thing we raise a whole stink about the situation.

Journal #2

Wow. There are no other words for what I'm thinking right now. I cannot believe how badly Native Americans are treated in America even today. Phrases like "Kill the Indians" are socially acceptable, and not just at football games or athletic events, but in everyday life. Many high schools, colleges and even pro sports teams still use names such as "Indians" and "Redskins." It makes me quite sad because this shouldn't be happening anymore. You don't hear about it, all you hear about is how we are discriminating against Mexicans. But its still there.

Since I learned what the term "Redskin" meant it has made me angry that a pro sports team In Washington (or any other team for that matter) has the right to use the term. I find it disgraceful and distasteful in today's "non-discriminating" society.

I'm not saying all mascot names that even remotely tie in to Native Americans are discriminatory. The Seminole tribe of Florida has approved the use of their name as FSU's mascot. They think it brings their tribe honor. Use like this, or the name "Warriors" or "Braves" are ok, as long as they are approved with other Native Americans.

Unfortunately I don't think that this debate will end anytime soon. You won't see the Redskins, the Braves or the Indians changing their names even remotely soon. Hopefully the changes will occur gradually starting with high schools and working up the ranks until only those mascots that are OK with the Native American communities remain.

Journal #1

So there is a cult of true womanhood, but not a cult of true manhood? What's up with that? If equality is the name of the game here then the equation should be men=women and everyone should have what everyone else has men and women alike. Also, I don't understand feminists because as much as they preach equality, there seems to be a darker underlying theme in their beliefs. That theme, I believe, is that the equation should not be women=men, it should be women>men. Now to me, that makes things a bit more complex because now the "equalists" are becoming more and more the "nonequalists."

I also think it's funny that a woman wrote these "laws" of womanhood when supposedly these are things that most women resent. Yes, this was written in the 19th century. However, even back then there were women who wished to become equal in society. So why write these when you know that there could be an outcry from some, if not most women? Aren't you contributing somewhat to the problem? I think that she did because if you outline "laws" for anybody you are likely to tick them off a little bit if not a lot.

In a small way I think that some people have forgotten about other struggles for equality such as the Mexicans. Most people today focus in on the women, mostly because they have been the most successful in their quest for equality in this country. But how quickly we forget that everyday people are struggling against the machine that is American culture. This machine, that has chosen to change little within past years has taken the role of monster for some people. The monster that discriminates against their people, their brothers, their sisters. I think that this needs to stop immediately because I believe that it is in violation of the country's belief system, which (should) preach equality for ALL PEOPLE, big, small, Mexican, German, Women, Men.