Blog Reflection

As I sit back and reflect on my blogs from this past semester I realize that I have not taken advantage of the whole bloggin process as I would have liked to. This semester was exceuciatingly busy and tedious for me and at times I found myself forgetting to post blogs. For the most part I do feel that blogging is a great idea, and it should be included in every class, for people like me who are too shy, or feel that what they have to say is not important enough to be said aloud in a classroom setting. The biggest regret that I have about my blogs this semester is; i was not able to post as many as I would have liked to, and I never talked about some of the things that I would have liked to talk about. One blog that I am, however, extremely glad that i posted is my blog on racism. Not only because professors and people that do not spend everyday on campus may not know what is going on around campus, but because the rest of the study body DOES know about it, but it took something like a black doll being hanged by a noose for them to act like they cared. If he rest of these students on campus really cared about racism they would have acted on it before the situation got as big as it did.

Talk about race...

I have always been a firm beleiver that race is, in fact, very important in the country that we live in. I ,myself, had never experienced any form of racism first hand until i set foot on this college campus. And after my football coach caught wind of this, i was told "it isnt the first time something like this has happened, and it wont be the last." This is the point that it really hit me, racism is still very much alive. although it may not be as blatant, or obvious as it once was, it is still very strong. if the fact of racism didnt exist any more then we wouldnt be finding black dolls being strung up, or people running around in black face. But, since racism is here, and it will probably never end these are the types of things that will continue to happen, i am just sad about the fact that in my eyes, before i came to the university of richmond, racism was pretty much dead, but now being placed in the situations i have been placed in over this first year of my college career, i see that some things will never change.

Sigmund Freud

before reading anything from Sigmund Freud, i had never really heard of him. But, when i asked other class mates, and team mates about it i was told that he is very hard to understand, and some of the things he says in his book are bizaar. but, after i picked the book up, and actually read some of it, i realized that this is not the case at all. Sigmund Freud touches on subjects that are otherwise never really discussed, but people tend to have different views on them. So, i think that the fact is, Sigmund Freuds raedings are not "hard", but they are topics that can be viewed in many different lights, so this may lead people to view his readings as hard to understand, or hard to grasp.

Wow

Today in class when professor Dolson was talking to us about the color line, and how people were grouped into categories of either "black" or "white", and nothing in between this really hit home with me. Especially after she told us that it was illegal for blacks and whites to marry eachother all the way up until 1960 something, i beleive was the date she told us. this really struck hard with me, because i am the product of an interracial relationship my self, and i love both of my parents to death, and i know they both love eachother very much too, (or they wouldnt have stayed married for 21 years haha). so just hearing that, if my parents were to have met about 20 years earlier, they wouldnt have been able to marry eachother. that is unbeleivable!

karl marx

on page 160, on the third paragraph down the page, karl marx speaks of how he feels that modern industry has established the world market, how how the market had given an immense development to commerce, navigation, and communication by land. i agree with the fact that market and things like that have paved the way for all of our other means of communication, but one thing i do disagree with is the fact that he gives MODERN indusrty all of the credit for this. it was well before modernization, and industry even came about that the only way people could speak to other people, or meet new people was by traveling to sell whatever they had to sell to make the money to feed their family.

karl marx

i never raelly ralized how much i agree with karl marx. we have been learning about him a lot in sociology class, and it never really appealed to me how accurate his views are until after i started to read this book

karl marx

in the karl marx book that we are reading now, i find it very interesting how marx points out that people do not really feel a need for wood, until the wood is made into something that we may benefit from. his example is making wood into a table... this is a great example because who would want a bunch of logs lying around in their house? nobody would, but i am 100% positive that people have wooden tables all over their house. i completely agree with marx on this one