Writing an agenda about this essay is very difficult. To be honest I only read the first two pages, and the comment from the engineer sending his daughter to a predominately all-white school was ridiculous. "...my daughter would lose touch with her blackness", that's some bs. You can still keep your "blackness" in an all-white school, because first of all it's about where you came from. And going to an all-white school to me is a priviledge because I went to all-black schools all my life. My high school textbooks were old as crap, let's say the early 1990s. In most all-white schools their textbooks are up-to-par. My grandmother worked at a mostly all-white school outside of Philadelphia, and that school was excellent. I wish I could of went there, but for a Philadelphia person you had to pay a fee to go there. As a black man growing up in an all-black neighborhood, going to an all-white school is a dream, to me. I always wanted to be in a diverse environment, even though Philadelphia is a diverse city, but we still have segregation issues when it comes to schools. AH HA! That's it, segregation, Philadelphia is one of the main cities in America that still has segregation in schools.
It's really nice to hear that some people can change their evil ways. Especially when it comes to racism. C.P. Ellis thought that everybody was living a better life than him, and since his life was going downhill, he wanted to keep a grudge on someone. He wanted to hate America, but America is too big to hate. So, then he started to hate blacks, not knowing that blacks and other races are going through the same things he is going through. This essay really makes people think, why hate on another race because you can't find a job? I also understand that it was also a thing of fitting in, but joining a racial group is like joining a cult, they suck you in and you're stuck.
When you marry someone, you should know the person for a good long while. When a say a good long while I mean more than 2 years. One of my friends proposed to his girlfriend after 2 years of dating. He proposed to her during his senior year in high school. I knew it wasn't going to last long because they truly did not know each other. Well, they didn't, they broke up.
Another thing to mention is the stereotype about women doing all the cooking and cleaning. Well that has changed becuase there are alot of men doing that now. Especially if the woman has a higher education and a better job.
This peom was an ok poem. I did like the story behind it, and it was nice that the quilt was passed around the U.S. to other AIDS victims. The poem also reminded me of my neighbor in the back of my house who just found out that he had AIDS.
I truly can understand what Bebe is going through. I also grew up with no father, and hearing other children talk about their fathers would make me upset. I use to go home and ask my grandmother "How come I don't have a father like the other kids do, I wish I had a father". But as I got older, having a father started to evaporate from my mind. My grandmother has been my mother and father for 20 years, and I really don't need a father. I also like how the story was based in Philadelphia, all the neighborhoods she mentioned I knew.
It's crazy how things can be fully blown out of proportion on television these days. As I read Talking Freaks I noticed that most of things that are on morning talk shows is homosexuality. For instance The Jerry Springer Show, most of his shows always has a man or a woman saying that they are gay and that they want to tell their lover that they cheated on them with their gay partner. Then you have the Maury Povich Show where Maury has a group of women and the audience have to guess which one is a man, and which one is a woman. I really don't get how these talk shows get a kick out of this.