Vicious Cycles. Sara Ceraso, Blog Post 7

So we got into a pretty heated, but very interesting debate today in class, and since I totally need to catch up for this weeks blogs, I am really happy there was so much to talk about.

So we began the discussion talking about how your environment has a lot to do with how you turn out. I agree. We discussed the fact that some people do not get jobs because of there race, this is also true, SOMETIMES. Like I was saying in class, everything is circumstantial, everything is. But to go along with some of my classmates points, I believe that some of these instances are in fact caused by cycles. For example, although the view of Blacks and other minority groups have gotten significantly better since the day of slaves, there are still acts of discrimination. Those Blacks did not get the best education in the beginning, due to the simple fact that they were black. That leads to Blacks being labeled as "less intelligent." The less intelligent people aren't able to graduate from college, which would also stop them from getting a good paying job. Therefore they don't have a lot of money, more stereotypes. They can't go to college to better there education because they have no money to pay for it, they have no money to pay for education because they have no job. And it goes on forever. Now of course that is one really broad example, and one that isn't always true, but I do feel like it happens very often.

Also going on the topic of the "African Americans" chapter; I had in my talking points before it was even mentioned in class that a lot of Black people voted for Obama just because he was black. I think it goes in a third direction as well. A lot of white people voted for Obama because he was black as well. This idea that they are too trying to better a nation by "finally getting a black president!" I mean I voted for Obama. In my defense I am aware Obama is a Democrat and am familiar with some of his views, and mainly voted for him because it was the first Presidential Election I was able to vote in and I was just completely against McCain. But I would be completely lying if I were to say that I didn't think about the fact that Obama was Black.

Oh and side note, Marger annoys me as well.