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The readings for this week were the Race,Class, and Gender Interaction by Tracy Ore. The first reading was was titled Race, Wealth, and Equality. The second reading was titled Doubly Divided, but I think both reading should have been titled No other race will ever matter. After reading both articles the main theme that stuck out to me was of course race, and how nothing else matters but keeping the WHITE race superior to everything. In both readings it was stated how African Americans were denied housing loans, even if they made the same income as whites did. The first reading (Race, Wealth, and Gender) talked more about how the goverment separated the blacks from the whites, where in the second article it seemed as if the Whites would have rather just all togather pushed the blacks away.
After reading both articles I got to thinking that the goverment handles different races alot like workers face alienation from captailist societies. For example, no matter what the workers does he will never completely have his freedom, unless he utlimatley just quits his job. Which is alot like the any person of a different race, they will never completely have freedom, unless they just give up and leave. Due to the fact that inequality will be a subject that will never be completely diminshed. Even though there are laws saying that the rights of everyone are equal. There is some gray areas that will never be patched up. As for the statistics saying different races have lower education levels, poverty levels, and etc.. Who is responsible for the way the different races are living, or the challenges their future genrations have to face?
Disscussions Questions???
1). Do you think that different races will ever have a fair opportunity to live freely? explain
2) Who is responsible for the way the different races are living, or the challenges their future genrations have to face?
Comments
I believe that the struggle for freedom will always be in society. Whether the subject is on race, gender, or sexuality, the minority will strive to break the mold of the majority. As strongly as I feel against racism, I think it is harsh to blame someone's situation on the majority race. If a person allows another to hold them back in life, that is no ones fault but their own. I come from a Hispanic background and I know from experience that my race has nothing to do with where I am in life. My choices have made me who I am now. If someone told me that the only reason I have succeeded this far was because of how I look or what tone my skin color was, I would be ashamed. Hopefully, the current generation will teach future generations that life is a series of decisions. Freedom is a luxury you can obtain through yourself, not through the white superiority.
Posted by: Vanessa Pacheco | February 13, 2007 7:30 AM
I personally think that different races will never have a fair oppurtunity in life because of how far we have taken ourselves into thinking of which race is better than the other. Like you said, even though there are laws that state that there is equal oppurtunity for everyone, we sure have a fine way of showing it. I was brought up in New York where diversity is not an issue. Everywhere you turn you see someone that is different in many ways, whether it may be a different culture, skin color, or the way they speak. When I moved to Minnesota, it was hard enough for me to get around because people in our neighborhood couldn't get used to the fact that we were living in the suburbs, and because of that, me an my family have gone through some hard times. But those events have made me to become what I am today, they made me look at the world in a different perspective, not just a world of oppurtunity, but kind of a world of survival.
Posted by: Shakti Ramoutar | February 19, 2007 6:29 AM
I personally think that different races will never have a fair opportunity in life because of how far we have taken ourselves into thinking of which race is better than the other. Like you said, even though there are laws that state that there is equal opportunity for everyone, we sure have a fine way of showing it. I was brought up in New York where diversity is not an issue. Everywhere you turn you see someone that is different in many ways, whether it may be a different culture, skin color, or the way they speak. When I moved to Minnesota, it was hard enough for me to get around because people in our neighborhood couldn't get used to the fact that we were living in the suburbs, and because of that, me an my family have gone through some hard times. But those events have made me to become what I am today; they made me look at the world in a different perspective, not just a world of opportunity, but kind of a world of survival.
Posted by: Shakti Ramoutar | February 19, 2007 6:31 AM