glen beck=dork.

Is this the face that so many choose for pop culture Mormonism? Is that what so many are proud of? Flaunting money, egomaniacal, fact twisting superstar... sad day for humanity:

apathy

We had to write a final reflection for my Race and Minority Relations Class. The assignment was to just write without editing, etc. So, this isn't edited so bear with me. I just wanted to post it cause I'm so pissed at people in the class for being so apathetic.

Here:

One of the things that I realized one of the final days of class is that people do not like to feel uncomfortable. It isn’t that I didn’t know this before but it was just very evident to me during a class presentation. It was quite discouraging that people were getting upset that I was dissecting and showing the fallacies behind the “Cons to Immigration” argument. Initially the girl wasn’t showing how these arguments were false but rather just reading what she said, “I found it in several places in the internet”, which we know can have a definite bias and be constituted as misrepresenting the argument at hand. Why am I the only one of the few that keeps talking? Because I care. Many people may be sick of hearing me but it pisses me off when people sit back and soak in false arguments that showing the “cons” of immigration. One must ask themselves if the majority of the members in our class would’ve seen the lies to the “con” argument of immigration or would have just accepted it as true “cons” and negative implications of immigration. I would argue that they would’ve taken them as truth and good rebuttal to the “pros” of immigration. This is just an isolated incidence but such things have happened multiple times. A quote from the movie Boondock Saints goes, “what we have to fear is not the evil of bad men, but the indifference of good men”. I don’t know if I saw that change in our class. Some people just say things to participate, but never take them home. I thought I could trust that people, for the better, could change. But indifference was everywhere in class today. So what if I have too much to say? What I have to say is important because it debunks the fallacies that we live in our everyday lives. People stopped caring a few weeks into the class. They did what they had to in order to get by. People became too tired and sick of talking about these serious issues. Us white folk don’t like to see the truth and reality to what we have done to people. It’s better to scoff at, despise, or whisper behind the back of the individual that has something to say. If they won’t say or recognize it then I’ll shove it in their faces. I will not apologize for that. I will not run away from issues such as the vigilantism of racist white Americans gunning down people on the border. I will not let some “facts” (they aren’t facts) be displayed on the projector without being debunked. I will not waver when people scowl at me for expressing my honest experiences and opinions on the catastrophe of social stratification and racism so prevalent in our society. If students despise me for speaking out and making them uncomfortable, then so be it. If students see me as a raging opinionated critic of our society, then so be it. I don’t care about their opinion, hell; I don’t even care about their feelings when it comes to such matters as social injustice. I care about fixing us. I care about the black man and white man trying to understand each other. I care about fixing what we have done to the indigenous societies (including the USA) all over the world. I care about women having a voice…about any oppressed, repressed, suppressed group/people/individual having a voice that creates movement and doesn’t just echo without being heard in the ears of indifference. What did I learn in this class? That people don’t care enough.

Bona Fide Beauty!!!

My friend, Ariana Bentz, is coordinating this event that everyone should and will attend.

Here is what she has to say about it:

Press Release:

Research with beauty pageant contestants in a methods course drove home the realization that our society is concerned with what women look like physically, but focuses very little attention on what they can accomplish. Accordingly, many women measure their self worth through their outward appearance, which is often inspired, and measured against, images in the media. For my senior project in anthropology, I decided to try to do something about this.

Bona fide Beauty is a salute to real female beauty. Friday, April 2nd from 12 - 5 p.m. in the LA Concourse a series of activities will be offered devoted to raising awareness of the exploitation of female beauty for profit. The goal is to erase the beauty myth, where companies profit from the objectification of women, to reject expectations of physical beauty that place women in smaller and smaller boxes, and to show off our Bona fide Beauty instead. Activities will include an open mic to share thoughts on what defines real beauty, a day without make-up, recycling of fashion magazines, exploring the mysteries of PhotoShop with regard to the altering of women's images, and an opportunity to clothe an image of a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model. Please join us for a stimulating afternoon.

10,000 maniacs...of paper.

If I were to travel back in time 10,000 years (preferably to the time of the Third Age in Middle Earth) with a piece of paper and on that paper the was written a glorious testament of me! Testament of me aside, if someone found that piece of paper today would it be 10,000 years old or brand new?