Blog # 2

According to The Color Complex "The Emergence of Modern Colorism in the Americas"

From in the early days of slavery and still today many face the issues of racism. Race takes a toll on everyone's life whether it be good or bad. For people to be seen and judged upon their skin color and not on what they are able to bring to the table is unjust. There should be no superior race and to think that this how our society still thinks today is just sad. It should not be the lighter the skin the more privelages you obtain. It should not matter what color your skin is, but I don't know if this idea will every leave people's minds. If society disregaurds the idea of race and racism our world would be so different. Race is something that the society has created, it does not really exist it is just something that we all created in our minds. Slaves have suffered the most from racism and dealt with harsh beatings and even rapes. This idea of race needs to be dropped, and being that it exists still today after how far our society has come I dont know if it ever will. 

Blog #1

Blog pertaining to Remembered Raptured "Class and the Politics of Writing"

This chapter of Remembered Raptured brought up a point I never thought about. When you read a personal or autobiographial piece you often do not think about how writing about personal issues effects that being's family. Your family's reputation can be altered in a negative way depending on what  personal topics were shared. This author wanted to publish her writing but it was not meant to put a target on her family's back or to blame an individual. After reading this chapter I so happened to watch a video on Youtube that also relates to this fear of publicizing personal information. A girl on youtube was talking about how she copes with her anxiety and where her anxiety came from. The girl talks about her parents divorce but she decided not to go in to full detail because she wanted to respect her parents. I immediately thought of how much of an issue this could be. People want to be open with their audiences but they would be putting their family lives at risk. Issues like these exist in author's lives and could even be related to those who share their lives with us on reality t.v. shows.