Whew! It's been a pretty crazy week!
KONY 2012:
I want to start off with the Kony business because over the break I heard a few things that kind of stirred my thoughts about the actions that are being taken against this situation with the Invisible Children organization. Firstly, I found out that Kony is in the top 10 list of the most wanted in the world. BUT, I was surprised to learn that a big reason for that is because Kony is ageing. The most wanted in the list are listed by age; before in the 80's, I believe (correct me if I am wrong), he was doing a lot of this and he was doing it without any kind of army fighting against him. Since he has become older he is becoming easier to track down. I also felt pretty bad that the Ugandan army is actually helping him; to no surprise that is also how the Mexican government has been acting with the drug cartels, anyway, Below I attached an article that tells some facts that were not told by Mr. Russell who created the Kony2012 organization. Although I am disappointed to say that they really should not be asking for any more money because there really is no need for donations if the campaign will end soon, I do appreciate the fact that they want to put out there that Kony is real, and that he needs to be stopped! I still believe in bringing him to justice but I don't believe too much in the whole Invisible Children campaign as much as I did before.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/invisible-children-hides-truth-article-1.1041118
SEXISM
GOSH! today I saw so much of this doing gender thing and I thought to my self wow, how crazy is this. Before I would think yeah I do act like a girl and guys do tend to act like guys but to actually see it and think why does this happen in the first place, it's just amazing. I guess what I am trying to say is, yea we biologically are different from men but where do we draw the line at that and then become equal? It's as bad as classism is, and back to that oppression argument: I am a woman and I will always get payed less than a male would doing the exact same job that I do. Why is that?! I am intrigued to learn more about this and to make a change. See I know that many things are made for men to handle and some are for women to handle as well but I'm still struggling with the question well when can we both perform the same tasks without being called a Tom-Boy or a Fag; you know!? I feel that I do wrong when I think more deeply. For any of you who watch TV now a days I see men looking more feministic, like cleaning up their eyebrows, putting tighter clothes on and wearing shorter shorts, I will admit I did say "wow they look like girls!" I feel really bad now but here I am admitting to my mistake, Please be proud of me.
The whole sexism discussion is pretty intense because I have always had to deal with the analogy from friends like in soccer: "if you want to play with boys then get ready to get hurt!" like really, why do men have to feel that just because they are somehow able to build more powerful fit think that girls have to get to their level when having to do a type of sport or job that they do because it is more characterized with them than with women? Any thoughts Girls and Guys? I'm really not mad I am just questioning something that I see everyday.
The Achievement Gap Presentation
Oh, "make a change social workers because you are the only ones that can save our little kiddos". Look, I personally do want to join a board to get to know more about the types of changes they are doing to the educational districts of our children and even college students like us.
I do agree, like many in our class, that the speech by Dr. Johah was a bit too one sided and BROAD, I mean yeah let's make a change, but how? Ok just be mentor, be part of a board, but what else what else did he have to say about education? What I needed from this lecture was to learn about how race and ethnicity is still playing a role in our grades between people of color and whites. What are the educational boards doing to change this? I was really disturbed when Gwen asked her question and he asked her back swiftly, he almost made her look like, well woman use common sense what are you doing now that is working?, yeah just keep doing that and you will be fine. I feel like he made it look like "common sense people" use your common sense! That just doesn't help us.
I do like how he mentioned in the beginning to act collectively so if anyone is able to get connected to a way where we can send comments to Dr. Jonah or our Dean about this matter please let me know. I really will take this from the lecture "give back to the people who have helped you" I did like that because I love my parents, my teachers in my school years, and little people who are hungry for education and I WILL GIVE BACK. I don't dream to become rich, I dream to bring peace and harmony to the world and I will be poor the rest of my life for this dream but I really don't care.
Alright guys don't have nightmares now. Comment please! =D
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