Terrorism

This is so funny but actually has a message about how the fear of terrorists is being sighted and used to control the country.

Political views from the other side

These are a few videos that show how people view the war. This is exactly what Howard Zinn said in his essay What War Looks Like. He said we need to depend on the artists, peots, musicians to carry out the message.

Racist Family

Wow watching this video makes me realize how much racism still exist. How can it be that in the 21st century will have people who still have this much hatred. Things like this makes me wonder if America is ready for a african american President(Barack Obama).

Valley teen killed at party is mourned

CHATSWORTH - Students, friends and faculty on Monday mourned the death of a 16-year-old Stoney Point High School student shot at a weekend birthday party.
Michael Fabian died early Sunday after a fight broke out at a Northridge birthday party with about 150 people that gang members might have crashed, police said.
Stony Point High officials paid tribute to the quiet Winnetka boy who transferred from Taft High School in September to catch up on his studies.
"It's just really hard," Stoney Point Principal George Padgett said. "We need to be conscious of everybody's feelings - not just the students, but the staff. It's so tragic that, all around the Valley, students are being killed."
On Monday, the Los Angeles Unified School District dispatched grief counselors and psychologists to help students and faculty members. In addition, parents were being notified of the shooting.
Michael died in an alley behind a home in the 8500 block of Corbin Avenue after trying to keep people from getting involved in the fight about 12:45 a.m., said Detective Mike Fesperman of the Los Angeles Police Department's Devonshire Division.
It's unclear what started the altercation, but it apparently involved someone who might be a gang member, Fesperman said.
Words were exchanged inside the home, and then partygoers spilled into the alley, where Michael and another person were shot.
The second victim, whose name was not released, was taken to Northridge Hospital Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the shoulder and is expected to recover, Fesperman said.
No description of the shooter was provided other than "Latino male."
Michael was a genuinely good kid who just got caught in the crossfire, officials said.
"He was not a gang member of any kind," Padgett said. "He was a nice young man, very quiet, definitely doing what he could to catch up on his credits."

This is a clip from the show Scrubs. It's making a stereotype of how black people would act in the hospital when a family member was admitted there. I know it's suppose to be a little joke, but is it really funny??

Politics... laughing or joking matter?

As I listened to the radio last week, they had a guest on there who was Senator Barck Obama. He talked about his campaign and of course Hillary Clinton. However everything seemed as a joke to him. He mentioned that she asked him to be her vice president. He then proceeded to ask sarcastically "How can the person thats in second ask the person in first to be his vice president?" He basically tried to say that he would win so she silly for making the offer. As the radio show went on Obama made many indirect comments. This took me by suprise. I thought the president of united states was suppose to be serious. They are making the political race into a gamn to see who can come out the winner, instead of choosing who's best.

Politics... laughing or joking matter?

This is a video made by a pitbull fan on U tube. The original song that was before Pitbull made the remix was sparkling clean not one curse word. Me and my grandmother used to sing it, thats how clean it was. Relpy to this If you need the translation of the spanish words just ask.

TYPES OF STEREOTYPES

Stereotypes are over simplified images of people or groups of people, based on race, gender, occupation, or age. You are probably familiar with a number of stereotypes. To begin we're going to look at an obviuos stereotype: "HOW MANY BLONDES DOES IT TAKE TO SCREW IN A LIGHTBULB?" this jokes furthers the stereotype about blondes being dumb. How many jokes have you heard about blondes or how many times have people said Hey I got a blonde joke.What stereotype is associated with blondes

1) Blondes are usually nerdy, Brilliant, awkward women
2)Blondes are dumb helpless women
3)Blondes are jocks
or 4)Blondes challenge men for there traditional role

what do you think?

Framing

If you look at me what do you see, An hispanic whose committed numerous felonies, Why am I being criticized and classified as a drug dealing criminal through your wandering eyes I desipise those lies and strive for a life of fortune and not a life of crime. Don't judge by culture, ethnicity, or color what if you were treated wrongly due to the stereotypes around...I wonder? I'm leading the new school of political leaders, business men & women, teachers, doctors, lawyers,& company owners I'm told because I'm hispanic I'm always drinking never thinking about staying sober,...I should be doin dishes I dont know how to speak proper english I should be jumping fences I'm not allowed to have anything expensive I start riots I'm loud never silent always starts fights a thief who uses slang when he's out and about with a Gang. Why say those things now when you look at me what do you see?

Pix: wat do u see???

If i dre$$d up more and used less slang, would i be seen as a more intelligent individual??
Or wuld i b shown as that same black boi from tha ghetto???
Let me know

So is this how society see African Americans? Poor..alwayz stoned up? I google balck neighborhood and there is tons of picture similar to this one. Others were of getho houses that looks broken down and dirty. Why are blacks mostly viewed in the media and society this way? Just because someone lives in the projects does that mean that they are ghetto with no behavior? Well I live in Linden projects and I am no where near being ghetto. I happen to get good grades in school, stay out of trouble and many other non ghetto things. So why some people think just because you live in the projects you are ghetto bad etc???

how women are view in the media

i posted this video because of our discusion earlier this markin period. Although this video states that women are independent and can do what they want is this video actually viewing women in a right way? The lyrics are good but my main question is why women have to be exploted with there figure and their body showing?

Frame...

I've been framed so many times that its really not that hard to chose one to talk about. Okay, this one time I had just recently moved down south from Long Island. I had clothes nobody had ever seen before and all the teachers thought I dressed so well to be only in the 5th grade. My new school was having a spelling bee contest, and all the teachers thought it would be a good idea for me to go up and try it. One, because I loved to read and second, because I loved writting. But personally I think it was because they figured I was ahead of the rest of the other children since I was from NY. So when I got up there and couldn't spell all the words right, the teachers looked shocked. And when I was walking down from the stage, I heard one of the teachers say "Oh she is just like the rest of them, no different."

Frame

I have been frame so many times!!!!! when i go to 5th ave with my mother in airports, hotels, and school. I really dont care what people think of me sometimes, but it hurt when someone judge you of the color of your skin. Someone is always going to say somethinmg about you if u look diferent from them.It could be the way u dress, ur hair color, ur skin or the shape of ur body. I can remember when i was in school and i had got into a fight and my teacher automatic thought i was the one who started the fight because where i had came from.

What Does this pic mean?

When you see this photo, What comes to mind? To most they might think Oh look she probably ghetto look at her earrings or she probably a weirdo who stay taking new myspace pics. This photo portrays me as a anything a person wants it too...from a ghetto girl...to one of those teens who are trying to still live in the 80z. Who knows what everyone thinks minds in there crazy,Hey I don't even know why I took this pic like this..it was just a boring afternoon n i decided to take flicks.I guess we can find different ways to look at it thats what make these kind if stuff interesting.

Freeze!!! Frame

Aisha leaves her house FREEZE!!!! psstt Look at that girl over there she must be ghetto,hood,a teenage mother, she lives in the projects. Aisha gets on the train FREEZE!!!!pssst Do you see her?? She must be a thief,high school drop out,smoke weed and always on her back if you know what I mean. Aisha arrives at school FREEZE!!! psst Do I have to look??? She must be getting into a fight today,loud, and not intelligent. Are they her boyfriends? How many more days until her suspension is finished? Aisha arrives home FREEZE!!! Look at her!! Daddy's lil gurl mommies lil pain. Aisha gets in her bed FREEZE!!! GOODNITE

Parents!!!!

My Parents!!!!! The media portrays black teens as having one or no parents. They usually have to work two or three jobs to make ends meat. With not enough money for a house the family is most likely in an apartment building. Well my parents are just the opposite.They have always been there no matter what.I live in a house with three floors and my own room. Not only providing for me but my brother as well with not 2 or 3 jobs. Each of them has one job. I not rich but I'm dam sure not poor. I guess you could say they're acting "out of character".

Response to da people (The Real Me)

I don't sell drugs, i don't smoke cigs,

I'm not tryna rob you from your store or your crib,

I'm not doin crimes, im not bout 2 do a bid,

im out here makin money, doin music, makin vids,

Doin sumthin positive, n negative communities,

people keep assuming, makin asses out of u & me,

stereotype followers, makin us disgraces,

judgin not by their actions, but by appearances & races,

people out here classist, judgin by the masses,

how u know wats in my pocket, ya dumb asses,

but its funni cuz, if u dont no me,

and u watchin tv, thinkn they show me?,

lol, lma0, people get it straight,

im not ya entertainment, im not the mass u gon dabate,

so, i will leave the people with this last question,

y u gotta judge me straight offa first impression?.

y ur mind gotta stick wit everything thats wrong?,

That's the questions that inspired me to make this song.

If u don't undastand then leave a comment letting me know.

B. $myth

Mothers Of Today

The strengths of Urban schools Part 2

Although America’s cities are "the strongest they have been in a decade," according to a 1998 State of the Cities report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, poverty remains more concentrated in distressed urban areas and affects a disproportionate share of minority families. "When asked why people are leaving cities," the report relates, "two answers most commonly cited are the poor quality of urban schools and the relatively high rates of urban crime."
Without ignoring these challenges, however, more and more educators are asking a question intended to help all city kids, whether they go to school in Detroit or Portland, New York or Anchorage: What can schools do to help students thrive in the urban neighborhoods where they live and learn?
Researchers at the Center for Education in the Inner Cities (CEIC), a project of the Laboratory for Student Success at Temple University, are focusing on educational resilience as a key to helping urban students succeed—even if they live in neighborhoods beset by social and economic woes. "Although not forgetting for a moment the details, complexity, and history of the problems cities face," relates the CEIC impact report, Next Steps in Inner-City Education, "researchers focus on the ‘positives’ of inner-city life, the vast resource of the cities, and, most important, the resilience and potential of inner-city children and youth."
Bonnie Benard, who has written widely on the topic of resiliency, reports that "new rigorous research" supports nurturing the strengths of urban youth rather than targeting services to overcome their deficits. Teachers have the power "to tip the scale from risk to resilience," she writes in Turning It Around for All Youth, a 1997 ERIC Digest. Benard cites three school-related factors that have the power to transform city kids’ lives:
Caring relationships with teachers who demonstrate kindness, respect, and understanding
Positive and high expectations, which can challenge students beyond what they believe they can do and help them not see setbacks as pervasive
Opportunities to participate and contribute, which allow students to express their opinions, solve problems, and help others

The strengths of Urban City Schools

When people think of an Urban City School they automatically give the assumption that all the kids are drug dealers,gang members, drop outs etc. This assumption is not entirely true because Urban City Schools produce kids who are intellectual and capable of doing something with there lives.Building on the strenghts of city kids, rather than tallying up their weaknesses, takes a fundamental shift in thinking about urban education. This article explains a little more:More than 150 languages are now spoken in America’s public schools, a reflection of recent immigration trends. City schools enroll the lion’s share of these newest Americans. Is this diversity a strength or an obstacle to learning? If seen as a deficit, immigrant students’ limited English skills can look like one more burden for urban districts to bear. Taken as a talent, however, children’s "multilingual abilities may one day give them a distinct advantage in the global marketplace," points out R. Craig Sautter in CITYSCHOOLS, a publication of the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. Urban schools, concludes Sautter, "need to develop strategies that build aggressively on the real capacities, experiences, culture, and linguistic attributes of city kids." Such strategies start by thinking of urban children as "of value" rather than "at risk," suggests former Philadelphia superintendent Constance Clayton in City Kids, City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row.
For decades, researchers have been documenting the deficits of urban students and the social ills of the inner cities. Across the country, including the largest cities of the Northwest, achievement gaps remain especially glaring for low-income minority youth. Complex social and economic reasons have left many of these children increasingly isolated from middle-class students and from successful schools, according to Trends and Issues in Urban Education, 1998, a report from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education. City kids attending high-poverty schools, according to the ERIC report, tend to have limited exposure to rigorous coursework and experienced teachers—two key factors for boosting achievement.

Poverty Versus The Military

This article gives brief info. on how the military looks on urban cities and the people who inhabit the urban cities."The U.S. Department of Defense sees urban schools as ones of its biggest recruiting obstacles. Not because leftist teachers in some of those schools try to keep recruiters out, but because so many potential recruits have to be turned down because of the poor education they have received in those schools. While only 21 percent of Americans live in rural areas, 44 percent of the qualified recruits come from these areas. What's strange about all this is that the rural areas spend much less, per pupil, on education, but get much better results. Part of this can be attributed to differences in cost of living, but a lot of it has to do with simply getting more done with less. Per capita, young people in urban areas are 22 percent more likely to join the army, than those of the same age in urban areas.
The rural recruits are also a lot easier to train, and generally make better soldiers. The urban recruits often have a bad attitude, as well as a difficult time getting along with others, and following instructions. The urban schools deserve some of the blame for this, while rural schools tend to be far more orderly, and put more emphasis on civil responsibility. Many of the urban recruits are aware of these problems, and joined the service to learn useful (for getting a job) social skills. Those skills are more often found among rural recruits because out in the boondocks, people are more involved with local government, and more involved in general. This has been noted in urban neighborhoods, and for decades, many urban parents have sought to send their kids, "to live with kinfolk in the country" to get the child away from the bad influences of urban life.
Over the last decade, there's been a movement back to the rural areas. Urban areas may be more exciting, and offer more employment opportunities, but they are a tough place to raise kids, or find suitable recruits for the military."

More Stereotypes.......Shadow Tha Hedgehog

Sonic the hedgehog has been out since before i could remember. In 200_, a new character was introduced to the franchise as Sonic was returing for a sequel to the dreamcast. His name is Shadow. He is Sonic's alter ego and the newest villian since Eggman. He is the "lone wolf" of his pack. He had his own solo game which was released not too long ago.

The Thing is....

How come he is the only one in the Sonic series that used a gun? He was imprisoned in a base until Dr. Eggman broke him out. He only fights cops and good guys. He is just as fast as Sonic but, he is given a motorcycle. If it's a children's game, why does Shadow have uzis & rocket launchers? Sonic has never touch a gun throughout the series and is appealing to everyone. Who are they trying to appeal to?

Cartoons an the messages it sends us.

If you think about it in every cartoon you've ever watched or even observed you can notice that there's only one African American in it. Their maybe none even. Cartoons like "Hey Arnold, Jimmy Neutron, Fairly OddParents and even Family Guy." These cartoon show one African American male or female. Why is that? why does one race rule over the other? One good example of no African American being showed in a cartoon show would be "Doug." You see no African American teens in there and I feel that isn't right. Do you?

Hillary Clinton & Barrack Obama

We all have heard lately in the news the debates going on between the two canidates up for Democracy for the presidency of '08. Mad TV has decided to take this issue in turn it into something unappropiate. Watch this Video clip and you decide wether you think they should or should not be allowed to show this on television.