Race and Ethnicity in New York

Ethnic Studies 125.FS002, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. SPRING 2010. Analyzing the intersections of race, culture, class, gender, and ethnicity in New York. How much of this do we carry with ourselves? Who are you? Who am I? Who are we? Respond to your readings. Respond to your classes. Respond to each other.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

ignorance is bliss

today when we watched the film on the illinois university making fun of the native american chiefs and the trustee woman is saying that if anything they should be proud and that they only present it in a good and influential way. who can they be proud if this is something they hold dear, their belief, religion etc and you have some kid running aroung the gym imitating it. if i dressed in a priest outfit had a bible in my hand and acted like i was catchin the "spirit" i would get shunned,put in the paper and be on the news that same night. and also the last image with the sports thing, and their like im a washington redskin and see nothing wrong with it but i see it as someone saying im a new york nigger its degrading to you and the people that were called nigger and those who are still call nigger
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  1. jtruglioApril 18, 2010 at 6:48 PM

    I agree with this so much! this is what i was saying with my behold vs. beware post! People can do the best and the worst things all at the same time! Once you see something like that it is hard to turn the other cheek, but people do it all the time.

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  2. MFNApril 19, 2010 at 8:43 AM

    The questions are: can we speak for others? do we know what the other is going through? can we really understand the other?

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  3. AntonioVMay 23, 2010 at 1:41 PM

    I agree

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