Latinos in the War/Jena Six

I wasn't really aware of the whole "not letting Latinos be part of The War documentary." It seems ridiculous to try and leave a group out of a documentary about a war in which they helped to fight. I don't understand why people like to segragate themselves and others from different groups. I thought that with the civil rights movement any type of racism would have calmed down by now, but what I have learned in the past few days, I can see that is not so.
For example, recently, the Jena Six scandal has made headlines nation-wide and there's no doubt in my mind that this has to do with race. Jena is a small town in Louisiana in which the population is approximately 85 percent White. The six young black men are looking at a lot of time in jail for getting into a fight with a young white male who was sent to the hospital with multiple bruises. There are things that happened prior to that incident, like the hanging on nooses on an all-white tree and then three of the Jena Six fight to try to get away from a guy who had them at gun-point.
From watching the YouTube videos from Democracy Now online, the white people interviewed from Jena don't think all these incidents have anything to do with race at all. It is astonishing to think of how oblivious these people are to what is really going on. It is a small town and I guess it is easier for racism to exist, but I can't believe there are those kind of people out there still.
It is sad to see that racism still exist in the world today but I guess it will always exist, even in its smallest form, in the smallest towns.

My 2nd blog

Well, I am still not sure what I am supposed to be writing on these things but here it goes. Last class period, we talked about how magazines and other popular media use sex to sell their product. We also talked about how they use women in provocative poses on their covers to appeal to both male and female buyers.

Although I don't like when they do that, I do think that it is helpful to get people to buy their product. Like Professor Lambiase mentioned, guys see a beautiful girl while women see themselves. I think that we have been brain washed into thinking that the people that we see on the covers are what we should aspire to be but in reality, they don't even look that way because the final product is airbrushed and enhanced.
For example, in a movie about King Arthur, Keira Knightley is on the movie poster and in the United States, her breast were made to look bigger than they are. In a way, people are conditioned to not like someone becuase their breasts aren't big enough, someone's not skinny enough, or pretty enough. It is sick to actually notice things like that but subconciously we all like or dislike certain things.
I am sure we will go deeper into these kinds of things in our class and I look forward to doing so.

This is my blog.

Ok, so I have this journalism class that requires us to create a blog account and here I am. I have created it but to be honest, I don't really know what we are supposed to do with it. I have used a blogging system before but the only place in which I have done so is on MySpace. Would this be the same thing? Is it so people can tell people how their day went or who they are mad at? I have no idea, but what I do know is that I have now joined the club. I have a blog on the internet.