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Friday, June 17, 2011

Modern Day Slavery/GA Immigration


In Georgia the new Governor Nathan Deal has enacted a immigration law similar to the one’s in Arizona. Georgia allegedly has some 200,00+ illegal immigrants and are supposedly taking jobs from good, wholesome, apple pie eating Americans. The law has started an outcry from the mostly the Latino community but on the grand scheme of things other people should be concerned as well

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Blacks in the media


The issue of race is a reemerging topic that plagues are society. From people wanting a certain job position, walk in a certain neighborhood, and other achieved statuses race seemingly plays a factor. The image of blacks in America is heavily influenced by the media. In the civil rights era the media was used to show black people in a certain light that made it acceptable for brutality and injustice in mainstream America’s eyes and in the same token it was the media who sometimes shed light on the injustice. We fast forward to today and we now have the television, which I believe in some few ways has help the “image” but in more ways has caused harmed to the “image.”