Blog #6

the definition of the minstrel is that its a show where white american would paint their faces black and make a play about african americans making them look dum, stupid and people that made you laugh because of what they did. to me as i am reading the book in a way i think that jim is a minstrel and the reason why i say this is that even though i have not finished the book in the part where jim has a hair ball and he can supposably tell the future and the part where he says that he got abducted by witches and was taken to the devil well if any person would say that to us our first reaction would be to laugh and say in our minds that that person is crazy. so to me after reading this this parts in the book jim is being seen as a person who we can think that he is crazy or dumb and someone who is going to make us laugh later in the book. but maybe as i keep reading i will understand jim better and see if he is protraid as a real person or if he was just put in this book as a minstrel so keep us entertained.

Racisim?

even with a colored president their is still plenty of racismim out there and we can see it everywhere that go. For example when i walk into a store the first thing that i notices is that almost all of the employees eyes are on me or on other colored people, and to me thats racisim right there beacuse if they where to see me equel to them than why would they be keeping and eye out on me. More examples is when we hear the news about police brutality the only people who always end up hurt are black males or hispanics. the same happends with sexism its always going to be around but their are always ways to hide it for example over the spring break i had to do a project for econ and i came across a studying showing that females with the same education still get paid less than a male and their their excuse for it is tha females get pregnant so they loose their senority. to me rasism is always going to be around and thats because we never tackle the problems that started it all we do is make fun and jokes about it. racismim may be at a low level right know but that doesnt mean that it wont get back up.

Blog #4

Kids and teen obesity in the U.S. is growing at an alarming rate and if we dont do anything our kids and maybe even our self will end with many physical problems in the future. the messages that the ad is sending is very powerful because what it is basically saying that even someone who has a perfect body like barbie can end up being obese is they get stuck in front of a monitor doing nothing but eating. even someone who is unbeatable like superman no chance for obesity if he ends up in front of the tv. i dont think that ads like this put pressure on kids to be skinny i take it in a ways that makes me aware that i should go out and exercise. kids become more pressured when they see skinny, bone showing models on tv. to me this an ad that will help parents if they can read the message correctly because it uses to images that kids are use to seeing perfectly shaped. when i see this ad many thought come in to my mind but the most important is not let any more kid sit in front of a monitor and just eat we should help them by taking the kids in our families out to the parks.

Essay # 3

Through the years the media has grown in ways that we never imagine possible but with this growth so has the negative perception towards Latinos. Know in days we are perceived as first of all gang members, shoplifters, and people who come to this country with the purpose of taking jobs away from the rest the population. All this is made possible because of news taking more importance in what minority groups do badly instead of the good doing. Yes, I do admit that there are some Latinos who have done wrong things but its not only Latinos its whites and African American too, But I am still perceived as a Latino.
Now in days we basically have the news at our finger tips and that’s because we can just turn on the computer and their we have them. But back in the days we had to buy the news papers. The news papers often only reported what was going one closed to us but now we can find out what is happening on the other side of the world. What I have seen is that the media is publishing more articles that make Latinos be perceived as people who are always doing wrong. I have noticed that most of the times they add a lot more information that what is really true and that’s because they want to attract the people so that their sales revenue can go up.
The perception that people have towards Latinos isn’t always a good one. We are seen as bad people as people who every time they walk in to your store you should keep an eye on. This has happened to me many times, when I and some friends have walked into a store and the first thing we notice is that there is an employee always watching our every move. As soon as we grab something from the shelves to buy we get followed.
I have even grabbed the attention of cops too. I know that to them mostly all Latinos are gang member and as soon as you see them with a gang color in this case blue or red then you know what gang they belong too. But the truth is that I am not a gang member I am a person who dislikes that because all that you are doing is killing for stupid reasons. I do recall one time when my friends Manuel, Maria, Lucy and I got pulled over. The first question the cops asked us was do you guys belong to a gang? We all answered no and then we had to show them our I.D.s. when I showed him mine his first words where so you are a sureno and all because in my I.D. I am wearing a baby blue shirt. That got me so mad because when we got pulled over I was wearing a shirt that had red strips, so I went ahead and pointed that out to the officer.
Perception can be both ways good and bad. I think that people will always tend to lean toward the bad ones because those are the ones that we hear most often and it so happens that if we hear it many time we will start to think that it is true. I don’t want to be perceived as a person who is always up to doing no good, I want to be perceived as a person who fought in life to get to where he is.