White Like Me

Today in class, we watched Tim Wise's video titled "White Like Me" and I felt that it made some very interesting points. My favorite point that Wise made was when he spoke about how when Barack Obama was elected, people around the nation made claims that racism was now behind America because of this one event. This was clearly a very stupid thing to assert considering people still made atrocious comments about our president's background. Another topic that Mr. Wise made was how as white person, you never really think about what exactly that means. This video has made me reflect on what exactly it means to me. Looking at it, I really don't think being white should mean anything in particular to a person just as being black shouldn't mean anything in particular to  someone. This however, has clearly not been the case for our country as was illustrated when the video played a clip from "Black Like Me." It is truly appalling to see how a man, who was white, was judged so harshly because he portrayed himself as being black. people were flat out cruel to him, not because of who he was as a person, but because of his portrayed skin color. I certainly hope that in our near future this kind of racism really will be gone forever.

Sunday Night Football

This Sunday, November 30, the St. Louis Rams beat the Oakland Raiders with a score of 52-0. This may sound like any old game, but the Rams actually did way more than just play a good game. Five of the players, including Tavon Austin, Kenny Britt, Jared Cook, Stedman Bailey, and Chris Givens, walked onto the field and did the "hands up, don't shoot" gesture that has been a popular choice for protest about the current Ferguson situation.

Rams doing "hands up, don't shoot" gesture before Sunday night game

This may seem like a small gesture to make, but it has caused quite the shake up. St. Louis police officers are demanding an apology as they feel it was disappointing and uncalled for. Although it may have been unnecessary for these players to do this, I think it is absolutely protected by the First Amendment. They don't owe anyone an apology for exercising they're own rights.

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