Hidden Bias Test...What it Says About Me

Marley: The oldest of the three!

My Cousin Tracy and I (At an Oregon Ducks game)

My Aunt Alicia, Uncle Otis, and my cousin Taylor (Tracy and him are twins!!)

After taking the Hidden Bias test I found out that I have little to no automatic preference between African Americans and Europeans. I believe this comes from my family. My uncle is African Ameircan and I have 3 African American cousins. I love all of them and it doesn't matter what their race is. I wouldn't trade them for the world!! <3 I think I may have been more bias toward European people if I didn't have 4 wonderful African Americans in my life. I was always raised to respect and accept everyone, but it can be hard when you grow up in a mostly white suburb. I'm also not a minority, so I don't have to deal with people not accepting me because of my race (other things may make people not accept me, but not race). I don't like other people to not have friends, so I have always been open to hanging out with new people and making them feel like they have at least one person on their side. I think that race shouldn't stop people from doing anything or becoming anything they want to be. I have zero respect for White Supremacy groups. I think that they have free speech, but I don't condone any of what they are doing. It also bothers me when people who are white say "you can't say/do that...you aren't black enough." Who are they to judge things based on race. People had said only black people could rap, but Eminem still did it. People said a black man could never be President, but Obama did it! Last I checked this was America, the Melting Pot of the World. We accept all people, no matter what their skin color. That was what we were founded on. My favorite quote from the song Home by Dirks Bentley is "Think, wonder what they'd think if they could see us now." He's talking about the founding fathers, would they be proud of us, or would they hate how we have taking what this country was founded on and destroyed it? I guess it's up to our generation to stop hating other races and just accept people as people and friends.


PEACE, LOVE, HAPPINESS

ONE LOVE, ONE HEART

Fast Food Nation...The Final Chapter



Fast Food Nation Movie Poster


As I finished reading Fast Food Nation I realized how much I changed. When I started this book I really didn't like it. I didn't care about the food I was eating and I didn't understand what happens in slaughter houses to cows. I had grown up knowing that cows were used as food, but I didn't understand how horrible cows are treated before they are killed. They are pushed into small places and killed by men with large knifes. It's freaky to think of people being able to kill something that's living. I also learned about the people who have these jobs, most of them are illegal people from Mexico or South America. The big companies take these people from Mexico or South America, get them across the border, and give them jobs. If a worker gets injured they get sent back to their homeland for a week (if they are hurt bad) to recover, if they are not hurt bad and they don't want to report it they get put on an easier job until they heal. I think that is just wrong. If someone gets hurt they should be going to the hospital, it doesn't matter if they are only hurt a little, these jobs are dangerous and people should not be in them just so they can make a few bucks. I don't like the idea of people being used at cheep labor. Personally, I think that we use illegals because Americans don't want to do the job. If Americans think that the job is bad and disgusting than why still have the slaughter house open? It's money!! That's the thing that controls America today, money. I think that people should take a step back and not think about money for just a second to see how people (and Animlas) are being treated in the slaughter houses.

Why I LOVE Cows

I am a vegetarian, I don't eat any sort of meat, and I think that eating a cow is just wrong. I'm not saying that other people shouldn't eat cows, I'm just stating my opinion. Cows may not be people, but they don't need to be treated the way that people treat them. I watched a video yesterday and within 58 seconds a man who worked in a slaughter house was kicking a cow in the head to get the cow up after she slipped and broke her back leg. I had to stop watching it. I ended up crying over the fact that this cow was defenceless against the brutality of people. If that's how animals are killed and made into food for us, than I want no part of eating one. They may not be people, but they are living and they can feel pain, just like people, they also have emotions, like people. We can't understand what they are saying, but they don't like being beaten before being killed. They are living in their own crap and other dead cows that have died before reaching the slaughter house. My family used to own a meat packing industry, Wilson Meats, the same people that made Wilson sports gear. They had prize cows and entered them in fairs, that is not bad, but after they would kill them just for meat. I just shudder at the thought of killing something that's alive and looking at you when you kill it. I LOVE cows! They are my second favorite animal (behind the penguin). It's sad that other people don't realize what people are doing to cows in slaughter houses. I was trying to tell my parents and my mom said "People don't want to know because if they did they would stop eating meat." That's just wrong, I'm sorry but I feel that people should know what's going on to these cows.



Cute little baby cow!





My Cousin Thomas E. Wilson



Theatre Fest...Time to Break Out the Monologue!!

I am going to theatre fest tomorrow at noon and I need to pick a monologue to do at a workshop. I am either going to use one from Rome and Julite, or Newsies (big shock I know). The one I may do from Rome and Juliet is:

JULIET: Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face;

Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek

For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night.

Fain would I dwell on form -- fain, fain deny

What I have spoke; but farewell compliment!

Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay';

And I will take thy word. Yet, if thou swear'st,

Thou mayst prove false. At lovers' perjuries,

They say Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,

If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully.

Or if thou thinkest I am too quickly won,

I'll frown, and be perverse, and say thee nay,

So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world.

In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond,

And therefore thou mayst think my havior light;

But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true

Than those that have more cunning to be strange.

I should have been more strange, I must confess,

But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware,

My true-love passion. Therefore pardon me,

And not impute this yielding to light love,

Which the dark night hath so discovered.

There are three from Newises I may do the first is: Racetrack: In 1899, the streets of New York City echoed with the voices of newsies, peddling the papers of Joseph Pulitzer, William Randalph Hearst, and other giants of the newspaper world. On every corner you saw them carrying the banner. Bringing you the news for a penny a pape. Poor orphans and runaways, the newsies were a ragged army without a leader, until one day all that changed.
The second is: Jack Kelly: Oh, what'd being a Newsie ever give me but a dime a day and a few black eyes? You know, I can't afford to be a kid no more, Dave. For the first time in my life, I got money in my pockets. Real money. Money, you understand? I got more on the way and as soon as I collect, I'm gone, I'm away, all right?
The third is my favorite: Jack Kelly: I'm just not used to havin' whether I stay or whether I go matter to anybody. I'm not sayin' that it should matter to you. I'm just sayin', um- but does it? Matter?




Jack and David (not the litte kid that's Les)

 


Sarah Jacobs (David and Les's sister & Jack's girlfriend) My family says I look like her




David and Jack (note the old guy behind Davey! LOLZ it's kinda wonderful)

If anyone has an opinion of which monologue I should do please let me know!! Thanks guys! :D
P.S. Jack is the one with the bandana (Christian Bale) David is the one wearing a tie (David Moscow)