The Conversation Of Race In America

Ahhhh. I love the smell of debate in the morning! So my sister made a post over on her blog about "The current conversation of race in America". I largely understand this to mean, "What do people talk about when they discuss race, in America?". Which of course brings up all the wonderful questions about race and racism.

One of the points she brings up is about various ethnic groups getting riled up about stuff after "the hell they've been through". Now this is something I would argue vehemently against. Not that there were people of various ethnic groups that were put through very close to hell on earth. There is no denying that Africans were treated much worse than animals on their route to the colonies, or that they were treated much like animals at the colonies. And if you put some effort into it you can find that the romans raided various people and used them as slaves as well. And no one can forget the roughly 6million jews that died in Germany in the span of just a few years.

There is certainly no arguing those points. What I would argue, is that no black american (I don't see how they're any more african american than I am scottish american) today has any claim to being abused in the era of slavery, and a shrinking minority of them have any claim to the heavy racism that followed after. As for hispanics being treated as a sort of second class citizen, well I haven't seen any of it towards legal ones (but honestly I don't spend much time in circles where I would). And if illegal immigrants are treated as second class citizens, well, honestly can they expect any better?

Now I'm not saying that everything is lovey dovey and we should just forget the past. It's important to remember our heritage and know what made our ancestors the people they are, and thus the people we are. However, I also don't think that I should feel bad for something that my ancestors may or may not have been involved in (at this point I'd have to do some pretty heavy research to find out).

That's it for now, but please feel free to make comments or responses. Though if you're one of the non-existent people who read my blog and I don't know, please post your blog after you make a rebuttal.

~joe

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So, what new in the life of Joe. Umm, not to much.

Sunday I finally got around to installing Windows 7 on my comp, it runs like a dream. I've had the dvd to install it for quite some time now, just hadn't sat down until Sunday to do it. Though it might have been Saturday, I forget exactly.

Sunday also saw the insanely fun time of doing nothing. Now I know that sounds weird, but it really was great. Me, my bro, and two of our friends just sat around for close to seven hours, played scrabble, a few card games, and generally did nothing and were bored together.

How is this fun? Well when was the last time you just sat around doing nothing with friends? With people you felt so comfortable with that you were content merely being bored with them. Maybe I'm just odd, but I certainly enjoyed it.

Monday was awesome, I spent a few hours and managed to repair a pair pants that others had declared hopeless! Man, it's been awhile since I sat down with a needle and thread to fix something. I had forgotten how relaxing just doing some simple sticking is, though sewing blue jeans is kinda annoying, I managed to prick myself with the back of the needle a few times while trying to jam it through several layers.

Other than that work has been good, getting kinda scared, gotta ask my boss on Friday if she's gonna keep me on after the semester ends. Welp, that's about it.

~joe is listening to Minstrel Boy by Thomas Moore

OMG!

I am a horrid failure, I let a month pass without posts! Forgive meeeeeeeeeeee!

On an idle note: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUWTF22JToY

Your commander thing commands you to click! On a side note, hopefully here pretty soon I'll have my website working right and will be moving the blog over there...hopefully.

If any of you know how to do the language for a blog please oh please point me that direction. I'm guessing php or css are the way to do it, but haven't found any sort of guide to get me started yet.

Also, if someone happened to buy me the coolest pet in the world, I'd love you more!

Lots of spiffy stuff has been happening lately, but I haven't blogged any of it! Hopefully I'll start getting it up here more regularly.