Racism the never ending story in America

http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/

I really enjoyed reading this blog and also enjoyed all of the comments. But I do think that some people are being delusional. Since when has ignoring something made it go away? Observing and learning about race will not feed into ignorance, but educate and equalize. Although based on the flaws in our system, social and economic justice is hardly on the horizon; understanding and embracing are the keys to truth. Maybe if more predominantly white suburban schools threw the study of culture into their curriculums, or put any importance on it at all, then we would be able to look forward to a much brighter future generation. Kids need to learn, especially those who may never be exposed to the beautiful aspects of diversity, in order for them to adapt an open mind. There is no way for the government to institute this type of learning; they would be completely accused of all types of things. It has to happen on an individual level. But I retract part of my statement. I feel that these types of programs should not be geared solely towards suburban white kids, but also inner city kids. For African- Americans and Latinos and whoever else. Maybe kids born in the Ghetto who don't know any other kind of identity, similar to the way a rich white girl may not know anything other then what she has been  born into. So without continuing to be completely redundant, teach! Educate! Expose! Embrace!

But I don’t have the answers to anything. Who knows what it takes to break stereotypes. Maybe with all the fake tanning white people do their bodies will evolve, and they will be born with more melanin in their skin, then everyone will be colored!

A New Perspective on Editorials

While I don't read editorials, and like I have said before, I have hard time enforcing my opinion where it may not be warranted, the talk by Mary Connolly to our WRT class, shed a new light on the animal they call editorial. 

Editorials are meant to make a difference. 

While news stories have to be "newsy" and 100% unbiased, the true opinions of the paper and the community can be brought to light through editorials. Many editorial writers receive and filter through letters from the readers, which gives them a heads up on how the community is feeling. They, unlike news writers, have the opportunity to share this in a credible and well-researched way. 

So while I was under the impression that an editorial, the short stories tucked away with the phone card ads accompanied by a thumbnail picture of the author, was simply an unimportant spouting of someone's personal opinion, I think that today I have been proven wrong.

And that perhaps through beginning to write these editorials my own previous opinion will be even further proven wrong.