Blog Post #2

I feel that last’s week session was a little emotional. In the activity that we did we realized how must of have gone through many things in life to be where we are today. Some have suffer more than others. Most of us where in the back of the line during this activity, it touched me when i saw some of my class mates taking a step back when Jaimie said, “Take a step back if you were hungry because there was no food to eat”, i was sad because thank god my parents are hard workers and before anything they always provide me with something to eat every single day. I was able to see the difference between parents that have grown up in the U.S.A, with a college degree  that are able to provide more to their children to those parents that have migrated to the U.S.A with no education and have had a hard time providing the necessary to their children like most of the Latinos parents. The way i saw this activity was to be thankful of our success in life that we have achieved. And also to be thankful for our parents who have gone through many things to get us where we stand today, because I saw that everyone took a step forward if our parents supported us to get an education. I feel that we are all standing in the same line because we are in school working hard for our future, and at the end it doesn’t matter what our ethnicity is or if people expect us not to achieve because we are all going to make it.

As for the readings, I found them a bit complicated.  But i kept re-reading the articles over and over and making side notes to understand better.  When i read ch.8 i was sad to read that Latinos and Blacks have a low rate of graduating. I feel that this reading relates to the activity we did in class and lasts weeks reading. I feel that these rates in Latinos and Blacks are low because that’s what they’re expected to be. Like i said before if they have no support and people have no hope in Latinos or Blacks than they do not try their best. Every ethnicity should be treated the same, and the color of your skin or background should have nothing to do with college acceptance, like the white guy who didn’t get accepted to the university he applied for because of his skin color.  I feel that we have very much work to do in supporting our minority group to try their best and not let others tell them they cant because of their ethnicity. There shouldn’t be forecasting a change in 25 years, they should be forecasting a change staring today right away to eliminate the discrimination.