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I have always known that women make less than men even in a first world country, such as the U.S., however, I have never really understood why other than it labor market discrimination. Prof. Steve Horwitz, points, out that it has more to do with the choices that women make because of cultural expectations and sexism that leads to the gap in earnings. For example, if more women wanted to be engineers and if more women made their husbands do chores the gap would become smaller, according to Prof. Steve Horwitz. I think that it is a compelling statement because it gives some hope to women in the U.S. to make choices that will benefit them and their families in the long run.

Read both links. Interesting.

I found this really interesting. Here's the link to the article. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123050/Look-The-black-white-twins-turn-seven.html

albeit after the ILLIBERAL WEATHER cleared... http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=lc-carpenter_ncaa_tourney_southern_miss_band_032812
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The test was good. The short stories that we had to read were really good. I enjoyed the stories. I wish we had more time to go over the stories. You know I really enjoy you Ms. Warren. However, I would love to see some short films to go along with what we talk about. I think it helps us to remember and help us to understand what you are communicating to us. You are doing a great job, I like the way you think.

All you hear is everyone looking for justice for 200+ years of injustice. If you have learned anything then you should know there is no help coming so reach down and help yourself. We are not that lost tribe of people that were brought here against their will. We are an ever evolving group of people that need to learn how to be self sufficent. Stop spending your money in their stores and on their products and shop within your own neighborhoods. The best way to get their attention is to hit them in the pocket. We are a people of lawywers, doctors, educators, politicians etc... Not like 50 years ago. We can depend on ourselves and build our own communities within their communities. Why keep asking for fairness and justice where there is none. Do you actually think that Martin Luther King was successful in his marches and boycotts because the dominate groups thought it was the right ting to finally do. I DOUBT IT. It was the loss of revenue no diners, no riders, NO SPENDERS. The loss of Black revenue by shop owners, the majority of bus riders were black, you do the math and make it apply to todays problems. Minorities are financially well off in the sense that their money is green too. Money talks in all groups minority or dominate. LOL how do you think Oprah became a horse of another color.

Have you ever really taken the time to really look at someone's car. A car can tell the class of the person without actually knowing the person. Lower-class individuals tend to "fix" their cars up: tint, rims, bass, paint job. The jobs cost more than the actual car. It tends to be people who did not have much and feel the need to flaunt anyway possible. Middle-class people do not put as much work if any into their car. Next time you see a car like this, consider the area you are in,the car, and individual. Social class can be seen through frivilous things, even your car.

I feel that many people don't know that they are privileged. Just by me being an African American female I have an automatic disadvantage to others. Lucky for me I grew up in a middle class family and I have more privileges than others. To me women work harder but men get paid more and receive better benefits. Getting better pay and benefits come with the privilege of being a male and it's even better if your a white male. People should just use their privileges as much to there advantage as possible.

Where were money for African Americans to help them to relocate and find housing and jobs. Why weren't they offered opportunites to move to Chicago and Los Angeles ? Why couldn't we control our own affaris , free from the paternalism of the federal government. Why can't African Americans have their own police forces and games wardens ,why can't we issue licenses and levy taxes? When, I look at all of this if African American did have their own land with police , and government, it would only promote hate , jealousy, and probabally greed.
Maybe the federal government need to say African Americans are worthy of respect maybe they did and that is why they have allowed there to be an African American President.

Where were money for African Americans to help them to relocate and find housing and jobs. Why weren't they offered opportunites to move to Chicago and Los Angeles ? Why couldn't we control our own affaris , free from the paternalism of the federal government. Why can't African Americans have their own police forces and games wardens ,why can't we issue licenses and levy taxes? When, I look at all of this if African American did have their own land with police , and government, it would only promote hate , jealousy, and probabally greed.
Maybe the federal government need to say African Americans are worthy of respect maybe they did and that is why they have allowed there to be an African American President.

It was amazing how genocide had reduced the American Indians from millons o less than 250,000 in 1890. They were forced to giv up their homes and their land, and to subordinate themeselves to an alien culture. They became dependent on the federal government for material needs. They were forced to resettle o reservaton lands or the Indain Territory Oklahoma . I think it's Albur New Mexico.

In the readings they say Indians were the most destitute groups in American society tribes. I thin African Americans were done the worst. Children taken from their parents, women taken from thier Husbands or the Husbands taken from the family.
Made a man felt less then a man. I just think African American haven't progress like the Indians to help each other. We do not meet the needs of each other in the Africa American community. Those who are economically better off , will not reach out to help those who are less fortunate then themselves..
African Americans do not have a growing political or economic power. All of us have incorporated into Euro-American society.

21 Top News Stories of the Year
All things gay were central to the 24/7 news cycle in 2011, and almost daily mainstream America saw stories about marriage equality, bullied kids, a dancing trans man, and heroic gays. Here are a few news flashes that topped our gaydar this year.
By Lucas Grindley



1. â??Donâ??t Ask, Donâ??t Tellâ?? Is Dead
Now itâ??s OK to be an openly gay or lesbian soldier. But the fact that thereâ??s still no marriage equality in the military could possibly be the catalyst that leads to federal recognition of same-sex marriages, experts predict. Already the Pentagon ruled that chaplains can officiate at same-sex weddings as long as state laws also are in agreement.

This artile focuses on one of the more detrimental outcomes of the complex web of social forces that mitigate against African Amerian males in school and society; their all-too frequent placement in special eduation programs. Special eduction was mandated by law in 1975 with the passage of the Eduacation for all Handicapped Children Act (EHA), now renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The purpose of the EHA was to provide specialied services to student who, by virtue of disability, could not profit from regular education curriculum and insturction. The law was intended to regulate and extend to all children, regardless of handicap, the provision of special eduaction services that already existed in various forms across the country. By the time it was enacted, however,evidence of misuse of this umbrella construct was already visible, as reflected in the EHA's requirement that assessment for special education purposes be nonbiased and conducted by a multidisciplinary team. Despite widespread concern, this requirement has proven to be extremely difficult to implement.
Racial, gender, cultural and linguistic biases remain integral aspect of the special education process, particularly for African American males.

I think it is awful how the Indians (Native Americans) were treated They were treated like animals. Their lives weren't worth anything to the white man. American Indians suffered segregation even after the Civil War. Although the Indian Removal Act (1830) had pushed the Native American culture farther west, the Europeans continued to become land greedy and gave them reservations while they got what is now the state of Oklahoma. So I'd say the Native Americans were mistreated by the United States after the Civil War. Even during, the Confederate States of America and the United States of America mistreated the Natives.
By and large they were seen as primitives to be swindled, coerced and otherwise tricked and bamboozled into doing what was best for the USA and not necessarily what was best for Native Americans.
They had land taken away from them by so-called treaties, which were often broken. Then the N.A. were given much more desolate and useless land in exchange and forced to live on these so-called "reservations"; forever changing the spirit and the nature of Native American life. The Native American will never be free like they were before Columbus, allegedly, discovered America.......and another thing how can you discover something (a land) that has thousand of people living on it?

I meditated on these words.
These few lines stood out the most. If we can just have real opportunities and if life was really free. If the equality could be in the air we breathe what a place America would be.
O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.

Let America be America Again- was it ever like this. A strong land of love. It has never been the America that the consitution speaks about a place for the people and by the people. All Americans are not sharing in this rights.


â?¦Amendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression
â?¦Amendment 2 - Right to Bear Arms
â?¦Amendment 3 - Quartering of Soldiers
â?¦Amendment 4 - Search and Seizure
â?¦Amendment 5 - Trial and Punishment, Compensation for Takings
â?¦Amendment 6 - Right to Speedy Trial, Confrontation of Witnesses
â?¦Amendment 7 - Trial by Jury in Civil Cases
â?¦Amendment 8 - Cruel and Unusual Punishment
â?¦Amendment 9 - Construction of Constitution
â?¦Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People
â?¦Amendment 11 - Judicial Limits
â?¦Amendment 12 - Choosing the President, Vice President
â?¦Amendment 13 - Slavery Abolished
â?¦Amendment 14 - Citizenship Rights

Most of the time when i hear about discrimination I hear about it being between different races or gender, but discrimination is also present among the same races. Using two of my jobs for comparative purposes, When i was working under a black district manager I was being over worked and under paid, and when she came into the store she would always nitpick the work I was doing in the store, but when it was a big job the needed to be done I was one of the first people she called on to help with the project. I was moved from store to store to help manage them and help organize them, but when my manager asked her could he promote me she was against it. When she would walk into the store because of her title she felt like she could talk to people in a demeaning manor and throw her power around because she was in charge.
On the other hand when I left that job and took a step down back to a regular employee working for whites I received better training and more support from them. The district manager would come into the store humble and would go out of his way to speak to all employees. When the store manager went to him about promoting me into management there were no problems and he even welcomed the idea. It was the total opposite of what I was facing when I was working for people of my own race. It seemed like at one job the district manager was more concerned with being in control and at the other one as long as results were shown the support was there and no ego was associated with the position.

Currently in class we are discussing racism and discrimination. I would never consider myself to be racist or a discriminator but leaning of the four different types of discriminators I guess I would be classified as an All Weather Liberal because often I do not speak out unless it is occurring to me or someone in my family. However, this changed with the recent murder of Trayvon Martin, an innocent young African American boy whose killer has yet to be placed on trial, found guilty by a group of his peers, and sentenced. I am trying my hardest to speak out against this injustice, to inform people that even though the years have past we are still living in a society that defines people based on the color of their skin. True class is becoming "more important" but race is a close second in determining a person's status. Now race may be a system of stratification, made up to define those individuals who are superior and inferior (race does not exist); however, people believe it does exist and feel the affects of racism on a personal level. Hopefully with the Trayvon Martin movement people will learn to speak out against racism and discrimination and eventually change society's viewpoint.

When the Islands that make up the Philipines were taken over by the U.S government after the Spanish American War, an imperalisitc relationship was established. The U.S. governmnet ignored Filipino desires for independencde and U.S. military forces killed many who fought for independence. The U.S. formed and education system that
taught Filipino children U.S. cultural norms and values.

They were exempt from anti-Asian exclusionary provisions of the 1917 and 1934 Immigration Acts. This allowed them ti immigrate freely and U.S. employers actively recruited them to wrok on sugar plantations in Hawaii and in fields on the west coast. Between 1924-1929 approximately 24,000 Filipinos came to California to do low wage work. Then, 1934 Congress responded to an sentiment by passing an act granting independence to the Philippines and imposed an immigration quota of only fifty persons per year.

It break my heart when African American weren't given the same rights when they were brought here.

Through out history there have always been some type of discrimination over minorities. This was started way before the slave trade, slave is a slavic term. It all starts from a group that is wanting/able to dominate another group. i think all of it comes down to greed. they want to have power over everything and everyone. To want to dominate over a group the dominate group needs to make the other group seem subhuman. That is why they have to discriminate over characteristics or beliefs. these minorities are composed of persons with similar characteristics that differ, sometimes significantly, from the dominant group. These characteristics are generally visible, generally stereotypical. why even have minority groups? it is because with having a minority group you get people that you have categories of people to do society's dirty work at low wages and no benefits, and it provides a pool of people to fight out wars. but if you look at it we are all connected. They call it the scientific Adam and eve. We all come down from Adam and Eve and that we all come from Africa. this is explained better in the National Geographic: The Human Family tree. in this geneticist Spencer Wells and a team of technicians from National Geographic's Genographic Project as they trace the human journey through time and space, from our origins in the heart of Africa to the ends of the world. Cutting edge science, coupled with a cast of New Yorkersâ??each with their own unique genetic historyâ??will help paint a picture of these amazing journeys. http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/coupon.jsp?code=NG91429&url=%2Fproduct%2F1167%2F5121%2F1074.htm. What it comes down to is that we are all genetically related. That is because of where we lived when we came out of Africa means that we have had to change physical features to deal with our climate and environment. The group that lives in the very north are lighter skinned and different features because they need the light skin to be better deal with the cold and to soak up the sun while people closer to the equator are darker skinned and have different features is because they have to have that coloration to deal with the hotter climate and the sun. so i feel like discriminating on what a person looks like or comes from is not a very good reason.

Last class we were discussing people who make racist remarks or exhibit racist attitudes without knowing it. One heavily used example of this is the label of "Mexican" for people of Latino decent. Latinos or Hispanics come from all over South America. My work employees about 40 people of Latino decent and only about 10 of those are actually from Mexico. The majority of them are from Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica. These people do take offense to being called Mexican. Personally, I have excluded this word from my vocabulary and refer to these people simply as Latinos.