I think all that you wrote about your race was so meaningful. I guess being white I will never see the world with its different races and prejudices exactly how you see it, but I read your analogy and thought it was amazing. It honestly gave me chills. It was sooo deep! I mean obviously I've heard a lot of the things that are said about Asians, but it hasn't effected me personally. What you have said about how these comments effect you and how you related them to a cut that will always leave a scar really opened my eyes. I now see so much more clearly from someone who has had their own first hand experience how much of an impact these hurtful things can have on someone. I think it is very important for everyone to read things like what you blogged about because if more knowledge is spread about the harmful effects certain words can have, maybe they will be said less!
To Maja:
I totally agree with you too! Really I don't even know what else to say because you've said it all and I agree with it all! God is meant to be divine someone that cannot be exhibited in a human form. When a person is given a position that turns them into a human form of God they really are on a path to disaster. This is also why i found it extremely fascinating that mosques don't have any images. I totally agree with that I think that it makes the most sense and worshipers should be able to take it upon themselves to come up with the way that they think God should look to them. I feel like were definitely learned that in history... maybe last year? It was that either Islam or another religion did not believe in depicting images of God for this exact reason.
To Jen:
I didn't end up writing a blog about the trip because i was out on the history field trip, buuut if I had written one it probably would have been quite like yours! I agree very much with what you said about Neil. He was so cute i loved him and it was very touching how meaningful all of us being together was for him. He was honestly and truly amazed and loving every minute of the time that we all spent together in that room and he continued to reflect on it for the rest of the day. Also, I loooveedd Billy! He was so passionate about his job, you could tell that he really loved what he was doing. It was so cute that he sang all of the songs of all the black musicians depicted along the wall. The Apollo Theatre along with the trip to the mosque opened my eyes too to how much different their culture is and why it is that way.
To Danielle:
I strongly agree with Danielle and sorry Rachel love you but i disagree. I look back at slavery and am ashamed at the way that my race treated those of other races, especially blacks. But, that does not make all whites wrong, certainly not devils. I do not see any right in the way that Malcolm refers to all whites as devils. I don't see the way he speaks as courageous. Rather, I view it as uneducated talk. I think this relates to the phrase "practice what you preach" and this is something that Malcolm should have learned to do. He spoke so furtively against the way that his people were discriminated against. He retaliated through his own racist acts against white people. That's just the way that I see it. To me he was pretty much arguing that it is absolutely not okay for white people to treat blacks poorly, but since the blacks have already been hurt by the whites it's fine for them to return the mistreatment. How can these two wrongs ever make a right? Returning racism with more racism does not seem to make any sense to me.
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