Blog 5

Monster and Incognegro are very similar.  These two books talk about discrimination and racism and how badly it effects peoples lives, however, both of these books express it in a completely different way.  In Monster, the racism was more said "under ones breath" when Incognegro's was more outspoken and people voiced their opinions on how they felt about black people.  I feel that the conversation was created by these two novels by the attitudes of the people within the novels.  When the reader reads in Incognegro white people just hanging them for fun and tormenting them with harsh words and language, it brings up a lot of opinions as well as anger which creates someone to voice their opinion creating a conversation.  Another way a conversation was created was in Monster.  I feel that when the author never gives the reader a clear cut answer to if Steve Harmon was truly innocent creates a lot a questions and comments which create a conversation.  Both of the examples' conversations are over the topic of racism because they all have to do with peoples feelings on racism.  The theme that is shared within both of these novels is Racism for sure, but mainly the true feelings of people out there towards racism.  Both of the books relate to our conversation about power and privilege because they have to do with a dominant race (Caucasians) and the certain privileges that blacks did not have and the privileges the whites had over the blacks.

Blog #4

I feel that the videos we watched on Racism were very eye opening.  Racism is a very controversial topic in which everyone has their own opinions on it.  The one video that really stuck out to me was, A Class Divided.  This video showed the real power behind racism an discrimination.  Dividing young children by the color of their eyes and watching them completely change their attitudes and feelings towards one another was incredible.  Seeing the kids that were good friends 20 minutes before the experiment becoming enemies shows the true power of discrimination.  It only takes a little experiment like that to show what racism really does to people.  Just because someone is a different ethnicity or color does not make them any different.  They are still human and deserve to be treated that way.  This video expressed to both an older generation as well as a younger one on the importance and seriousness of talking about racism and showing how everyone is truly equal.  Between the novels we have read and the videos we watched, they all have to do with discriminating against someone due to ethnicity or color.  They were all focused on the same topic, Racism.  However they all had a different story or situation with racism.  In A Class Divided, they discriminated using eye color to show people how racism/discrimination worked.  I was brought up in a family where Racism was considered very wrong and with the idea that everyone is equal.  This video really helped me understand the seriousness of this controversial topic and how it truly hurts someone emotionally.  I have always known racism to be very wrong and after watching this video my feelings are still the same.