Sexism and Trayvon Martin

HEY everyone this week we had some really hot topics to discuss! I would like to start with Trayvon Martin because it is a topic that I still don't understand very well. 


So in class everyone has many feelings toward the case and I feel pretty sad for the kid and for the family I would never want something like this to happen to my little brother that is now 5 growing up or my brother who is 22, it's pretty scary. As much as everyone wants to say this was not racism it was self-defense, well why was Zimmerman following him? I mean was he a security watcher or police to be doing such a "look out"?  I feel pretty shitty because he was left to go without any charges. SO here is a little scope for everyone that didn't know Zimmerman had prior police charges and I believe a felony or two and he was released of these charges because, I believe his father or grandfather is an all-time important retired judge. OK! So this just sounds super fishy! It's truly unfair to be using family power like this to cover something like this death, if that is what they are doing! IT'S the 21st century this needs to STOP! I know it will take years or even centuries to change this irrational hate we have for each other and differences but we need to start. WE! ALL of us even if it is all the social workers of the world or even the United States.


I understand the complexity of this case, of the world, but I don't want to rely on the complexity of it and leave it alone because of that because as much as we want to say that we have social order we don't. We have American privilege, I understand, to even speak our minds which is something other people in the world don't have, but we have it and it's our choice to make a change in this discriminatory world, society, life! 


This case is just a match to the fire we can bring to the justice flaming lantern.


SEXISM
Oh, how I liked these chapters on Sexim! I especially liked chapter 72 where the author spoke about his grandmother. I see my mother and I think to my self, wow, she has done so much for me, and she still does.  My father has done so much for me too but man MOM you brought me to life, you could have chosen to  not have me but you chose to, you chose to give me life and now I am here. Like I said not saying dad is not important because of course he also contributed to my being and my well-being still, I'm happy to have my parents I really do!
Moving on to chapter 73 with the poem I picked out a great part that the poem talked about and that was the love we have to give ourselves as women. A lot of the times we are discriminated by men in the work force, at home, in school, but as women we discriminate against ourselves too. I feel that it's important to know that and to change that because we can't expect to change anything if we still have those negative feelings toward each other that way.  Chapter 75 was really important for me too because as I am reading these chapters I kind of start to see a correlation of interest, I want to become an "accredited feminist" I really want to take a feminist class during the my experience at UT to find how to create change this way as I had mentioned in my argument before in this blog.  I want my voice heard and my hands to change some aspect of this injustice life. Why not? Why can we not dream of change? The woman part of that wall is gone, I know I can make a change, I need education, experience and  strength, that is all achievable and yes I will create change. This all leads to the last chapter on sexism and this one touched my heart the most for this: " The compelling reason behind activism is that our most personal lives-even the intimacy of death- are actually embroidered in the reality  of public policy, foreign policy, military aid, and economics. Each day, then, I like the women in my family before me, and like so many other women in the world, recommit to continue this  struggle for life, and to celebrate it's beauty in the process. That struggle and that celebration are who we are as women, as we take responsibility for our destinies." (Winona LaDuke, pg.369).  I just loved this ending paragraph because I really see myself becoming an activist, a woman who will fight for what she thinks is right and will challenge anything or any one who wants to put my feelings down. 


I am the kind of person that loves to hear other opinions and I really take in consideration of what everyone says, that is at most why I am so quiet, I am an analyzing sponge, so when I make a decision I have had knowledge from various parts of different opinions from all sides. I feel that this is something that makes me very special and unique. I think this will be something  very useful to keep as I move on in my studies and change for the world in my life. =D 




Live, love, and keep the peace everyone!