muahahahaha!
well, MY PARENTS WENT AWAY YESTERDAY UNTIL SATRUDAY! EEEEE!
ummm.......
yeah, man, i got home and i felt all lethargicly and like "blah! i dont have to do anything! no one can tell me what to do!" and then i didn't do anything....
I've never been so productive
i got a ton of homework done
and a ton of old homework done
and i took out the trash and unloaded most of the dishwasher....
damn! i don't do this much when they tell me to
aahhh... sweet resistance
and now i'm being difficult by beeing too good
well....
almost good, there are some rather less than legal plans for friday, but that's not the important bit....
teeheehee
and then i returned thomas's car to his peoples....
and they fed me leftovers! i felt so loved! and i just chilled there for like two hours! yay! thomas's parents like me! yay!
well, today school was boring,
i got an A on my first college assignment which was a reader responce to a Malcolm X essay
“I had joined that multitude of Negro men and women in America who are brainwashed into believing that the black people are “inferior” - and white people “superior”- that they will even violate and mutilate there God-created bodies to try to look “pretty” by white standards,” Malcolm X expresses in his essay “My First Conk”. This statement briefly explores that every person at one point or another has felt the pull by society to change themselves in some form to become “acceptable” by common standards. But it is not only individual members of the black community that have furthered their own degradation by attempting to change themselves. It is within the capacity of every human, but especially the most humiliated, degraded, and abused that they would go so far as to maim themselves for said acceptance.
Just as Malcolm X confesses that he seared his scalp, I confess that I have scarred my flesh. And for nothing more, than the acceptance of my peers, because on some level I felt that if they pitied me, felt compassion for me, commiserated with me, that I would then gain their acceptance. That I or anyone would “…violate and mutilate their God-created bodies to try to look “pretty”…” shows that society has not changed enough since Malcolm X wrote this statement. The norm of society has not evolved enough to let each individual be him or herself. People are still striving to be accepted, appreciated, fit in to what is “pretty”, and try to do so by harming themselves in some irreparable manner. It is not enough that someone would not feel comfortable being themselves, but that they would even think that they could feel better if they were to change who they are.
Through the rest of the essay Malcolm X continues to express his opinion regarding self-degradation. He makes the point that “conking” accomplishes nothing, except for severe amounts of pain. “The ironic thing is that I have never heard any woman, white or black, express any admiration for a conk.” Nor have I ever found sympathy for my faults, nor my expression of them. The ability to express oneself, accept, and even love oneself should not be hindered by what the rest of society thinks, or by what ones’ peers think. It is necessary that society change so that being “socially acceptable” does not depend on the trend of society, but the individual.
Malcolm X’s essay ends with the line “I’m speaking form personal experience when I say of any black man who conks today, or any white-wigged black woman, that if they gave the brains in their heads just half as much attention as they do their hair, they would be a thousand times better off.” It is still applicable here, not just within the black society, or in regards to hair, but to how any person portrays themselves. I am speaking from personal experience, that even if the most humiliated, degraded, and abused of persons spent more time developing themselves, their minds, their character, they would no longer feel the need to succumb to the pressures of society so that they may “fit in”. If any individual spent as much time as they do feeling persecuted as they did upon their self-respect, social acceptance would no longer be a concern or an issue.
it's not too amazing or anything....
but it gets the job done
i think i got like 24/25
i'm very proud of myself....
ah! more collegey thingies!
quick! somebody make some suggestions!
omg....
OMG! HOLY SHIT! you know the channel when it goes all blue cuz the program is blocked and it plays music
they just blocked malcolm in the middle or something....but....
THEY'RE PLAYING THE HAMPSTER DANCE SONG! OH MY FUCKING GOD!!! THAT'S SO FUCKING COOL! I CAN DIE HAPPY NOW! I'VE SEEN IT ALL!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!
EEEEEEE! I LOVE THIS SONG! AH! OMG! OMGOMGOMGOMG!
....i know.... that just got really girly and rediculous.....
ummm.......
yeah, man, i got home and i felt all lethargicly and like "blah! i dont have to do anything! no one can tell me what to do!" and then i didn't do anything....
I've never been so productive
i got a ton of homework done
and a ton of old homework done
and i took out the trash and unloaded most of the dishwasher....
damn! i don't do this much when they tell me to
aahhh... sweet resistance
and now i'm being difficult by beeing too good
well....
almost good, there are some rather less than legal plans for friday, but that's not the important bit....
teeheehee
and then i returned thomas's car to his peoples....
and they fed me leftovers! i felt so loved! and i just chilled there for like two hours! yay! thomas's parents like me! yay!
well, today school was boring,
i got an A on my first college assignment which was a reader responce to a Malcolm X essay
“I had joined that multitude of Negro men and women in America who are brainwashed into believing that the black people are “inferior” - and white people “superior”- that they will even violate and mutilate there God-created bodies to try to look “pretty” by white standards,” Malcolm X expresses in his essay “My First Conk”. This statement briefly explores that every person at one point or another has felt the pull by society to change themselves in some form to become “acceptable” by common standards. But it is not only individual members of the black community that have furthered their own degradation by attempting to change themselves. It is within the capacity of every human, but especially the most humiliated, degraded, and abused that they would go so far as to maim themselves for said acceptance.
Just as Malcolm X confesses that he seared his scalp, I confess that I have scarred my flesh. And for nothing more, than the acceptance of my peers, because on some level I felt that if they pitied me, felt compassion for me, commiserated with me, that I would then gain their acceptance. That I or anyone would “…violate and mutilate their God-created bodies to try to look “pretty”…” shows that society has not changed enough since Malcolm X wrote this statement. The norm of society has not evolved enough to let each individual be him or herself. People are still striving to be accepted, appreciated, fit in to what is “pretty”, and try to do so by harming themselves in some irreparable manner. It is not enough that someone would not feel comfortable being themselves, but that they would even think that they could feel better if they were to change who they are.
Through the rest of the essay Malcolm X continues to express his opinion regarding self-degradation. He makes the point that “conking” accomplishes nothing, except for severe amounts of pain. “The ironic thing is that I have never heard any woman, white or black, express any admiration for a conk.” Nor have I ever found sympathy for my faults, nor my expression of them. The ability to express oneself, accept, and even love oneself should not be hindered by what the rest of society thinks, or by what ones’ peers think. It is necessary that society change so that being “socially acceptable” does not depend on the trend of society, but the individual.
Malcolm X’s essay ends with the line “I’m speaking form personal experience when I say of any black man who conks today, or any white-wigged black woman, that if they gave the brains in their heads just half as much attention as they do their hair, they would be a thousand times better off.” It is still applicable here, not just within the black society, or in regards to hair, but to how any person portrays themselves. I am speaking from personal experience, that even if the most humiliated, degraded, and abused of persons spent more time developing themselves, their minds, their character, they would no longer feel the need to succumb to the pressures of society so that they may “fit in”. If any individual spent as much time as they do feeling persecuted as they did upon their self-respect, social acceptance would no longer be a concern or an issue.
it's not too amazing or anything....
but it gets the job done
i think i got like 24/25
i'm very proud of myself....
ah! more collegey thingies!
quick! somebody make some suggestions!
omg....
OMG! HOLY SHIT! you know the channel when it goes all blue cuz the program is blocked and it plays music
they just blocked malcolm in the middle or something....but....
THEY'RE PLAYING THE HAMPSTER DANCE SONG! OH MY FUCKING GOD!!! THAT'S SO FUCKING COOL! I CAN DIE HAPPY NOW! I'VE SEEN IT ALL!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!
EEEEEEE! I LOVE THIS SONG! AH! OMG! OMGOMGOMGOMG!
....i know.... that just got really girly and rediculous.....