its a long one kids

Dec 17, 2004 03:21

aloha, its thursday, im done finals. woot. just stickin around till saturday to see my bro graduate. watchin some oreilly right now. last night i went to the ACF Christmas party with Jenny. it was a pretty good time-- there was good food and all the people are really nice. after that we stopped by my brothers place since we were near there. we watched some south park then we went to our respective homes and i watched oceans 11 with mike neighbor and ben. twas a gay ol time.

interjection-- there is an injured marine on oreilly now, talking about how he is proud to have served and how he actually feels fortunate for having an accident bc it has opened him to a new world and brought him closer to a group of guys that he would not have known as well otherwise, and how hes living life to the fullest now. thats what we need. guys who are proud to serve and dont turn on the objective and our leadership bc they got hurt. perhaps i shall be one of them after college.

so i must say that chevy chase is a worthless POS. first of all he hasnt been funny for years now, and secondly hes another one of those far-left hollywood nut jobs. He was hosting an awards ceremony for People for the American Way when he decided to lambast President Bush. let me say, I understand that ppl hate Bush and i can understand (not agree with, but understand) their reasoning, but that is not an excuse to mock the President in the manner that Chase did. Here is what he said:
    Chase called the prez a "dumb [expletive]." He also used it as an adjective, assuring the audience, "I'm no [expletive] clown either. . . .     This guy started a jihad." Chase also said: "This guy in office is an uneducated, real lying schmuck . . . and we still couldn't beat him with     a bore like Kerry."
Now i dont care what your feelings on Bush are, Chase was way out of line and should be punched in the face for his ridiculous, propagandizing remarks that show no respect for the office of the presidency or his country. Now i dont like Clinton at all and I think hes a pretty crappy human being, but he is a former President of our country and that demands respect. I would never, and hope any o yall, would never say anything like this about any president, esp in public. its just rude and asinine and no, its not "the most patriotic thing you can do" like some like to claim. i dont even know what else to say. people like Chevy are only serving to further divide the country.... frickin stigmas to our society.

mmmk next topic. the topic of the race relations class, sociology 119, here at school came up the other day, and it was suggested that i take the class. well, besides the fact that the professor is a fool (he said of the massive Republican victory on Nov 2: "They rode this wave of homophobia and anti-gay marriage initiatives," sociology lecturer Sam Richards said of Bush's administration. "They rode that wave right to the victory line."-- boy he sure knows his sociology), i have no problem with any race or minority, and it just isnt a big interest of mine, i thought about it and i really think that stuff like this, including affirmative action and hate crime legislation, is counter-productive to what its trying to do. now dont get me wrong, racism (and all bigotry) is a ridiculous and horrible thing and i in no way support it. also, the issues that i find fault in are very noble in their intentions, but i think for the most part they dont serve those intentions well. society will never be color-blind (judging people based on character) as long as race and color are constantly pushed to the forefront. the problem with racists is that they see other races as different from themselves, and that is what needs to be changed. to do this you have to think like a racist would. a racist is not going to think "hmmm they have affirmative action, they have their hate crime legislation, theyve even got classes about them in college, well there must be something special about them im not seeing". no, the racist mind will think "oh now they want their own laws and free handouts and they expect us to learn about em now too! screw them!", and it just causes even more hatred. remember, were talking about racists here, theyre not logical people, dont expect logic to work on them.

i saw the KKK on jerry springer one time and the head guy said something like "if youre born in America then you are American", and a black guy stood up and said "well hey, i was born here so Im American!", thinking he had outsmarted the KKK guy, but he completely missed his point. The KKK guy's point was that if youre born here youre American, youre not African hypen American or Latin hypen American. racist ppl dont see this as ppl being proud of their heritage, but rather as giving themselves hyphenated ethnicities to take advantage of certain things. The Rev Jesse Lee Peterson (a black guy) understood this and said "First off, I would like to say that I am not African-American, I am 100% American". We need to all be identified as Americans, and as people if we want racism to extinguish. i discussed the James Byrd case with a friend the other night. if you dont know, Byrd is the black guy from Texas who was dragged by a car to his death by 3 white men. His family insisted on harsher hate crime legislation which Bush and conservatives were wary to grant. now, i have no problem with hate crime legislation really, but for one, Texas already had hate crime legislation, and secondly, two of the men received the death penalty and one got life in prison. what else do you want to happen? they got the worst possible, how would hate crime legislation do anything else? furthermore, what murder ISNT hate? to say that its a hate crime only if its a minority is foolish. shouldnt crimes be determined by the action, and not the motive? white guys are killed too for a variety of reasons, as are minorities. if were going to distinguish crimes by the motives where does it end? should murder for money be different than murder out of anger, or should they just both be murder? race relations programs largely take their cue from MLK Jr., but wouldnt MLK want Byrd to be considered a dead man, rather than a dead black guy--- i think so. hate crime legislation is purely political.

affirmative action causes a problem too. racist ppl see it as minorities getting handouts, and not as bettering themselves. if i was a minority i would be offended by affirmative action. the notion that you need someone elses help to achieve, because of what group you belong to, is blatantly racist. hard work and dedication is what furthers a person and a group as a whole, and not goverment programs that help them get into college. as long as there are these programs to fall back onto, the need for them will never go away. furthermore, if a person needs their race to get them into college or soemthing like that, is that person really qualified? it makes no sense to drop someone into a college theyre not prepared for, bc they will just fall behind-- that goes for anyone. rich white kids should not go to ivy league schools just bc theyre rich white kids. the money and focus should be on evening out all schools from the beginning. all children should have an equal base for their education, and from there we could judge on effort and ability. obviously not everyone has this equal base, but affirmative action is not the answer. taking a child with an inadequate base and putting him/her among those who have an adequate base is not productive. the child who works hard will make it. there is also the argument that affirmative action is for fostering diversity, but its not truely diverse if its forced through govt programs. also, as i said, it fosters even more hatred among those who already hate. all groups have gone through persecution at some point in history. Christians have been persecuted all throughout history and still are today, but the WASP of America worked hard to get what they have. America wasnt founded on govt handouts... the colonists got up and fought for what they wanted, and thats what ppl always need to do (not that im saying all colonists were Christians). obvioulsy white ppl in America disgustingly used and abused minorities through slavery, which was definitely wrong, but the point is that they had to work themselves up to such a position, that allowed them to take advantage of others, in the first place. i firmly believe that hard work and dedication is how one betters oneself. just check out Condoleeza Rice who has "often said that to get ahead she had to be "twice as good" and her childhood chiselled her strong determination and self-respect". shes ridiculously successful.

i learned an interesting tidbit in anthropology this semester. there is really no biological basis for race at all. race is just a man-made thing (which, interestingly, follows perfectly with the Biblical account for the different "races"). you could take two black guys and they could have wildly different characteristics, while one could be quite similar to a Pollack or anything else. its crazy stuff. now THIS is what needs to be emphasized. racists need to be shown how they are genetically the same as other races. constantly focusing on the differences of races only furthers the idea that they are different. one of my anth textbooks also had an essay about how celebrating cultural differences in schools is
1. pointless, bc it usually consists of an assembly or something wherein students watch an African dance, and really learn nothing, and
 2. only serves to further the notion that minorities are so different from us
what needs to be emphasized is how we are all people and we are all remarkably similar. making all people seen as people is what will end racism. obviously this is quite the daunting task, but it is a worthy task, and focusing on differences is not the key.

whoooooooee. now, all that said, i dont really know enough about the sociology 119 class. maybe it does discuss the similarites which would be a good thing, but either way, i personally cant fit it in my schedule, its not that big an interest of mine, and im not down with the prof. ya'll decide for yourself. but please dont give me the oh youre such a conservative Christian racist, bc i think i have pretty ably shown that i hate racism.

have a good break and happy holidays ya'll.
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