1st Hand Accounts and Super-Initiative Posts (3/13)

Response to Monica on 1st Hand Accounts:
Thank you for your account! I have shared one of mine on one of my early blog postings that most of you have seen and responded to. But another observation of mine going through a predominately white high school was that the real minority was the latin american or mexican students. Our prom king was born in Ethiopia, and our validictorian was Chinese, but no "popular" kid in our school was one that did not speak English well. I have found that that is one of the biggest propellors of racisim in America--"those who can't speak it shouldn't be here" or "learn English, this is America."


Post to my Group on our Super-Initiatives:
Sorry for all of the posts but after not being able to talk about some of this stuff for awhile, I have a lot on my mind. As a group, I don't think we have expanded on our super-initiatives either. During class we said some rough possible solutions were:
*To ignore it
*To push for laws like affirmative action to help minorities
*Advocate for laws, but only after more important issues are addressed
*Teach and include more of every race and culture in schools and the media
*Do not ask for new laws, but simply the enforcement of current ones

Let me know some other ones that you guys have come up with since then...because these are from awhile ago! :)