Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Mean version of "Jo"



Do any of you remember the 70s/80s
tv show "Facts of Life?" with Tootie, Blair, Natalie and Jo (Nancy McKeon)? Well last night I was watching the reality show "The Biggest Loser." There are 3 teams (red, blue & black). On each team there is an assigned
trainer. On the black team the woman who trains the group looks like Jo (Jillian Michaels) from the "Facts of Life." Only she's meaner and tougher!

Last night there was a hate crime at TC
where I work. Someone left a rope noose
swinging in front of a professor's door
who happens to be African American/Black
and teaches on racial injustices and
inequalities! This is SO messed up. 1st
there was the incident at MSSD last week,
now TC. Seems racism and racist attitudes
truly carried over into the 21st Century!
When we will LEARN? That underneath it
all, we all bleed, is someone's daughter or
son, deserve to have the basic necessities
etc etc.. That there is no "Whites Only"
tree (Jena 6). The skins ability to produce
pigmentation which deals with the persons
skin color is superficial. Its not unlike a
persons eye color, or hair color. Research
has shown that people from the same
racial background are NOT more likely to
share the same genes. As a matter of
fact it is more likely to cross racial lines
because when it comes to our genes, our
skin color is not a MAJOR characteristic of
our genetic makeup! Racial colors only
"skin deep" as I like to say.

Well its a dreary morning, rain rain go
away, come back a later day!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

There was news a couple of weeks ago about anti-Islamic graffiti at Columbia but it didn't make major headlines and Columbia essentially ignored it. Had they actually responded to that, perhaps the noose-hanger would have felt less comfortable and refrained from his/her actions.