Thursday, July 23, 2015

What's it all about anyway?

I am reading through this book and looking at all of the things going on in the world today and I can't help but think that there is a lot of propaganda in the book. I don't think the book is bad in any way and I definitely think that a lot of minority students are at a disadvantage in the world of education, but how much of that is attributed to their own mistakes? This sounds harsh, and I don't mean it that way at all. I just think that this book helps support the idea that different races and ethnic groups are continually killing themselves in terms of their educational achievements and goals. "Acting White" for instance is a big one. African American and Latino students use this term often for members of their own race who are doing well in school. This is terrible and shouldn't be said. I know so many white people who are ridiculously dumb (not special education type of dumb, but rather ignorant dumb). Should I start saying that they are "Acting Black"? NO!!!!!! I shouldn't and I won't. That is wrong and ignorant and culturally insensitive. There shouldn't be any of this "Acting White" or "Acting Black" or whatever talk. Their should be humans and their should be acting like a civilized human being. No matter what your color is, you have the option to act one way or another unless you are diagnosed with a disorder. If you aren't diagnosed with a disorder then, you need to just act like a civilized human and do what is expected of you. There are tons of successful minorities as well as tons of successful white people. There are bad white people and there are bad Black and Latino people as well. Statistics are perfect for skewing data to favor your ideas. Pedro uses a lot of statistics to make the data favor what he wants us to see. Do I believe that a lot of the bad things happening in his research is real? Hell yeah I do!!! I think there are a lot of issues still that need to be figured out and certain people need to be fired and hired to make these changes happen. Until people in this world start looking at the big picture and realize that getting an education doesn't mean you are "acting White" and until people realize that they need to take responsibility for their own education and achievements no matter what race they are we are going to have problems in this world. I would kill for a world where everyone is color blind and we just made it about the person. I would love to keep the cultures of every group of individuals. I don't want that gone. I just want people to see people. Not color. I'm tired of the hate. I'm tired of the segregation and the horrible crimes happening because of race. The world needs to get their shit together and start acting right.
END OF RANT!!!

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