DIASThoughts Spring101

        The line is described as what the poor people are trying to reach and the rich fold are trying to prevent from going below referring to the poverty line. It's the difference between life and death. Some stereotypes that we think of when we see poverty is laziness, uneducated, unskilled, and these people prefer to be poor.        The stories challenge those stereotypes  because the people like John who had to suck up his pride and admit he needed help. He went to the food pantry and left a number of times because he was ashamed and embarrassed of what he had to do just to survive. Sheila had a terrible accident and was unable to work, so she had to rely on her disability and SNAP to help her and her kids. These people don't want to be below that line. I can see it in their face.        Some outside influences that might offer a real solution to poverty are soup kitchens, food pan...

      The video "A Trip to the Grocery Store" is about a black women, Joy, telling her story of being discriminated by a white cashier at a grocery store. While Joy's white sister in law, Kathleen, went through the line the cashier initiated conversation with her and was warm and happy to her. When Joy stepped up to be checked out the cashier's demeanor changed dramatically. She didn't try to talk to her and Joy's ten year old daughter noticed. Joy decided to ignore it and gave the cashier her check and instantly asked for her i.d to see if she wrote a bad check. Kathleen then stepped in and used her white priveleaged to bring the discrimination to the light. Joy wonders if she would have said anything would it have had the same impact or would she have been that "angry black lady".        Koppleman would agree with Joy. White people need to use their white privelage for good instead of themselves. If we stuck up for the diverse gr...

The group I chose is the African American community. They have been oppressed since they were brought over by the Europeans as slaves. They were looked at as less because of their skin color. This group has come a long way. They have equal rights such as speech, voting, and everything else a human being should have. They are still oppressed. There is still people who are racist and discriminate against them. There are stereotypes that still follow them. Oppression is prolonged cruel  mistreatment or control. There have been specific people who have fought against the oppression the African Americans have faced like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, and many more. If it wasn't for them we may not have had the change we have now. Some white peple are stuck in the ways of the past. They still believe they are superior and treat African Americans like dirt,  but the more the earliest generations are introduced to the equality of others the more the oppression diminish...

            Each video and article has a number of similarities and differences between each other, but the main thing that will pop out at you is the different beliefs and validations by each individual person and the different experiences each one of these authors and speakers had to endure to form their belief. Religious diversity here in the U.S is a lot more accepting than in the Middle East. There have been times were people were punished by other extreme groups out of disregard for the law in the U.S, but in the Middle East a lot of the time if you're not with the main religion you could be killed. We have people here who practice the Muslim faith the same as others do in the Middle East and it is not a political problem.           There will always be hatred in the world and that hatred will be projected at ideas or beliefs that are different or that people just don't understand....