War on Drug

The average person, the Drug on War was created to stop drug crimes and make a “bad neighborhood” a better and safer place. Its purpose to the community was to give a sense of peace and tranquility. Thing is, that the reason people started to feel unsafe when their neighborhoods started to see racial difference, was because politicians manipulated an idea to the public mind that we were in danger and need help to eliminate such crimes and peoples are supposedly the only ones who are committing them. But the main idea and real since the beginning was to target a certain group of people, in this case, black and Latin ethnic groups. Fact is in the book Drug War facts it mentions that the ones who use illegal drugs that most are white with a 72%, blacks 15% and the Hispanics 10%. With only this fact, I think the government is clearly targeting the wrong people and what is seem is that it is more a personal matter or an wrong idea that our society keeps dragging about black, or Hispanic people are poor because they are lazy or dumb, therefore they sell drugs to get through life, and as a result they should be in jail. In Drug War facts, the author examined that in 2001the chances for a black man to go to prison were significantly higher than for a white man to go.  The government keeps arresting people of this specific race because they keep going to the same community, and obviously who ever seek, will find something wrong or illegal, whether it is in a white or black community. I believe it should be equally pursued between all racial groups and for once give the black and Latin community a break!

To the future La Guardia Student

As a La Guardia student it is important to know yourself, your goals and interests. Organizing your week schedule is the key to success and there are times where you will have to deal with unexpected plans that may throw you off track, but you must always stay focus. As you may have probably heard, college can be one of the best parting years of your life, but also one of the most stressful and time consuming. The ones who make it through college are the ones who understand the level of responsibility and dedication it requires. The key to responsibility is self-motivation and time management. And when it comes to dedication, most of the time there are sacrifice that must be made if your goal is to finish with A’s and B’s.

I can understand that for some it is not the social life that gets in the way of achieving their goals, but their full-time jobs. I personally do not know of this situation, but what I can see from my classmates is that it is very tiring and most of the times their bosses demand more attention to their work, when I believe college is priority than work in this time of our lives. The thing is that most of us do not have a choice, because someone has to pay the bills. Therefore there is really no other option, but to really organize yourself. At the end of the day it can be stressful, but it is possible to balance your life. There might be times where you don’t know what the hell you’re doing, but never give up, those times will pass. Stay motivated and organize yourself and you will achieve your goals.  

         

Anthro blog

Good afternoon members of the Human Rights Watch, it has come to my attention that there is a main issue you should be aware of, and that is race classification. The reason for me to share this information with you is to help you understand what really race is, for what reason it was created and if race is a biological myth or are we genuinely different in all aspects. First of all, race is a cultural judgment of classification by skin color, but also refers to the historic social conflict and their interest. Race has a long legacy that was built around the concept of color. For many, it has been embedded into the paradigm system. This seed was planted into our mind and it is our duty to recognize and understand what it was, and what it is now. The truth about race is that it does not exist.  It was created during slavery and its purpose is to manipulate, control and dominate society. This idea has brought many conflicts throughout history and now a day it still has a moral impact toward some members of our society. Race began as an ideology oppressed by the dominant group during slavery. It has been used culturally, politically and socially to control a majority group even though the governing group is actually a minority. In those times, their mind were set to have inequality, and at the same time fear of revolt against the colonized because they would probably be killed on the spot. After emancipation slaves were legally free, but unfortunately reality is that morally and mentally many of us are enslaved. Since some members of our society are not morally free, there should be a voice that should be heard, but specially understood. It has become to my willingness and obligation to address you a plan of action, but above all, motivation.                  

Insulation

In the 1960’s the reforms initial which created a new racial. Demands started flowing and it began the idea of absorption which is a way of distraction for those how require more. The insolation was a form of protection from the movement demands. These demands were that the Civil Workers in the South wanted to be protected by the Justice Department. Question aroused toward the states policy and its makers preferred if it was insulated from the movement demands. Insolation is also related to those states that are separated and thought that they were not capable of being a cohesive society.

Annotated Bibliography

The Ethnicity Caste is a journal about India’s long history of race classification. It informs the reader about the struggles of socio-political status and how particularly in India race and caste can be a disadvantage to some member of this society. This is a reliable and convenient journal because it is objective and I can integrate it in my essay. It can be easily used for my paper because it concentrates on the Dalit, which is the contemporary name for untouchable. This source can be an asset for my understanding of the Untouchable and Bakha’s daily obstacles as one of them. It also focuses on race, ethnicity, caste and the Dalit and could be a great source that I can use to support my claim.

In-class blog: Untouchable

In the novel Untouchable, we see a world that is based on a racial and cultural ideology. Over the course of the novel, Bakha struggles between family values and their religious believes and his wishes to be and Englishman. The only issue is that the cast division they are living in does not satisfies Bakha and feels anger towards the life that has been given to him. The main character Bakha, experiences several obstacles throughout the novel which affect him morally. On page 46 a Hindu merchant bumped into him and started insulting and describing him as an untouchable. Anand writes “Bakha stood still, with his hands joined, though he dared to lift his forehead, perspiring and knotted with his hopeless and futile expression of meekness” (Anand 46). In this scene Bakha has a realization of the significance of his place as an “untouchable” in the social hierarchy of the 1930’s in India. Although there are no obvious racial or ethnic differences between different classes of Hindus, they live in paradigm of a strict caste system based on religion and labor.    

Cluster Connections

These cluster has made the classes more easy going since basically the main argument is race and culture but from different points of view. It is interesting since most of the times some classes that seem difficult for me to understand if it was the only one it actually makes it easier because different arguments can be applied from class to another. In my first year college there were classes who talked a bit of what race is, but never truly how it affected so many aspects over the years. In Untouchables we can see the difference there is between the English upper class and the “untouchables” who are the lower class. Reading the book I made a connection with a video we saw in our anthropology class where this third grade teacher does a study to her students about discrimination. She divides the class based on eye color. One day the blue eyed children are in the top and the browned eyed in the bottom. In a matter of less than 10 minutes they already have discriminating verbal forms for the browned eyed kids, and a class that were friends at the beginning, all the sudden they divided and started hating each other just because they were classified as different. The teacher gave her students a group test and the “oppressor” or the group how was on the top, had better scores than the ones who were on the bottom. The same routine was made the next day but the brown eyed students were in the top this time. The thing that impressed me the most was that when the group was on top they had better scores regardless of how they did the day before with the exact same test. It also got my thinking about Slave and Citizen by Tannenbaum where he argues about how African Americans were treated as slaves and about how your skin color determined if you were a slave or not. This video made me click plus Slave and Citizen got me think over and over again that what if there would NEVER been a race classification and we weren’t jugged oppressed, or misunderstood? What if we were all classified as a human being and not a race or color?