When I was watching the videos, I couldn't help but think to myself that all these people were such cry babies and liberals. Honestly all these people are just oversensitive and need to realize that white privilege does not exist anymore. How can it when there is a specific law called Affirmative Action that gives jobs to less qualified minorites over white people. Its the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard that people still think white privilege still exists. Its not about being privileged, its about working for what you have and putting effort into the things you do and not taking an easy way out by selling drugs or joinging a gang. To sum up my overall feelings about the videos after I watched them, I was completely disgusted. These white people were saying that their own people are ignorant and stupid. And the fact that they think we should pay reparations made me laugh pretty hard, are you kidding me? Thats like going over to Germany and forcing young adults to pay reparations for the holocaust which they had no part in. Basically by the end of these videos I wanted to punch all of them in the face because of how pathetic they sounded, feeling guilty for being white. Give me a break.
Monster was a decent book because of how it was written. I really liked how it was written in the form of a screenplay. It added a lot of suspense and effect to the text that wouldnt have been present if it was written like a normal book. It's hard to say whether or not Steve was guilty or innocent. There are multiple people who claim they saw him walk out of the store including an old Woman who wasn't involved in the crime at all, but the other two were people actually involved in the crime so it's hard to trust what they say considering they killed a guy then went directly to a fast food place. While he flat out even denies being at the scene of the crime at all on the stand, he wrote in his diary that he was just going there to get some gum and thats it. So he did commit perjury, but it is not clear at all in whether or not he agreed to be apart of the robbery. Was Steve Harmon wrongfully acquitted?
I agree with you 100 percent. White Privilege does not exist anymore so those people need to more on. I hated the fact that they were bad mouthing the own people for being white. There is no reason to just sit there and complain about these people. That is a very good example about going over to Germany. That really puts this into perspective. There is no need to feel guilty about being white. White people have done great things. Instead of complaining and bath mouthing each other they should be out trying to fix things like racism, that way there is nothing to complain about.
ReplyDeleteI also enjoyed reading a screenplay novel. I feel it was a quick read and you could relate to Steve better because i felt more a part of the story. I agree, it is very difficult to tell if Harmon was innocent of guilty. I think that was the authors intensions so the reader can "make up" their own ending. That is a great question, honestly i am not really sure of the answer. I feel that there are so many facts that support both sides.
I feel the same way about Monster. I think it was definitely more interesting to read it as a screenplay versus a regular novel. Also, the way it was written I feel that a lot of things are up for interpretation as far as the case goes and steve's involvement.
ReplyDeleteI think it is totally irrational how the white people feel that they need to pay reparations for what happened in the past. It happened, it's in the past, and there's nothing we can do about it now except make sure things like that don't happen again. I don't think we owe them anything but I also don't feel like we can just forget those terrible things never happened. I felt bad for the people while watching this movie but I don't think it needed to be so dramatic.