Yup yup! That’s me! And as you can see I LOVE talking! I’m always the one to make life just a little bit louder! If you ask anyone that truly knows me, my voice is loud! Not necessarily in volume, but in my message. I’m never scared to speak my mind for those who have lost their voices. This branches out to my fight with the civil rights and equality. My voice is the tool I can share with the world for the better of all human beings. All I have to do is be loud enough to be heard! My goal in life is to always learn. Yes we learn every single day no matter how old we are but how many people live their life open it? I know that I come to school to learn and its more important then grades themselves since grades are supposedly a reflection of how much we learn. But it seems like society will never let me do that since all academic courses need to get grades. I know that colleges want to see those two numbers and either your in or your out. They don’t care about how much growth I’ve had since my freshman year yet they do care about how many AP’s you take or your 4.5 GPA and 33 on the ACT. I just wish that for once people graded me for what I’ve become. And I want everyone to consciously be learning for the better of themselves and not just for money.

I really wouldn’t change much. Yes I have learned a lot but I am still the same person. But that doesn’t mean sociology didn’t have an impact. It changes the way I have looked at race and social class. One major change would be who cares if school don’t grade you on your growth. I’d hope then when I finish college, then all my life lessons will help me find the jobs that those people who didn’t grow wont get. As long as I know I learned I am happy.
Sorry if you expected more, but I am still the same great person I was before but with more knowledge on the world.

everyone's *truely* a little bit racist

we all judge no matter what, some people are just much worse.

First off, I rarely get to see any people of my race in movies or shows so seeing a Persian family in crash really hit home to me. It reminded me so much of my family and it stinks to know that many people don’t know much about my race.

“Everyone's a little bit racist
Sometimes.
Doesn't mean we go
Around committing hate crimes.
Look around and you will find No one's really color blind.
Maybe it's a fact
We all should face
Everyone makes judgmentsBased on race.”

… is what I think! Race will never go away. We all look different, so what! it’s the ones who learn to oppress the bit of racist they got in um who are the strongest. I think over time people will grow to be less racist because society keeps changing.

....everyone is a little bit racist...

First, I want to start by sharing something I have been doing for a while. When ever surveys or tests and all that jazz show up in my life, if the question of race comes up, I don’t answer. What does it matter? Really?

So I remember back my freshman year, my Reading enrichment teacher was reading off some stats that the school had up with the different grades of races, along with the percentages in the population. I said why do we do this? Why does it matter if someone else is different. So what if one race is smarter then the other, doesn’t it just ask for more judgment in the world? She didn’t know what to say so she just said the school has to do it legally. I don’t even know if its true, but it seems like not many people think it through. With these polls, we only create more stereotype and reason to judge others.

I have this friend who is classified as Asian. She was in regular courses and told me many students wondered why she wasn’t in an AP course. They thought all Asians are smart. It hurt her feelings and made it more of a hassle to get to class because people judged her because she didn’t “fit” her race.

No matter what, internally, we all have judgments about race. We all learn to let it pass because in these times, we all need to learn to love and accept one another and celebrate our differences.