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Wednesday, November 7, 2007
What are your feelings now that you are out of the Tunnel of Oppression?
Comment on your feelings and/or opinions that going through the Tunnel of Oppression made you feel.
7 comments:
Anonymous
said...
From my own experience, and I think more people in the room, could relate to the section of the tunnel where the girl is raped. Nobody believed her and I think that is how a lot of people in America don't believe that oppression is real and happening today. Nobody listens and they deny this serious problem because they believe that there is nothing wrong with leaders and that everything is just normal. The friend didn't believe that the girl was raped because she thought that the boy was harmless. The girl did a good thing by taking the case to court because it could possibly prevent this boy from oppressing other people and also help correct him. Just like this case, people need to let their voices be heard or nothing will change.
I felt like I was walking in someone elses shoes, which is great! You can hear a million times how horrible it to experience some of what was presented, but actually going through it is a completely different story.
It was good to have my mind opened to other perspectives.
We can all learn how NOT to handle rape situations.
No means no at any point. Love does not equal sex.
The way to help a person through a rape is unconditional love not judging or making it about you.
With all of the refuges how do we make a difference? One at a time. I help mentor learning disabled kids, I will sign up to help mentor refugees today.
I don’t like profiling any more than anyone else, but 3000 people were killed on September 11. They killed every race, every creed, every color, every religion. The only thing that matter to them was that they could killed anyone associated with America. Whether you like it or not you’re here in America and now you are their next target. An 80 year old lady from the Chec. Republic is NOT going into the Sub cafeteria and blow everyone up. Give me an alternative to keeping these animals away from us and Ill stand beside you to make it happen. Until then we are all going to have to put up with crap at the air ports.
Um, what? Not sure where you were headed with this...I think the point of that piece was to comment on the nature of stereotyping, not to excuse the WTC attack.
And it's not just about being pulled off an airline based on the way you look, it's about having your life completely changed based on the fact that some guy with the same color eyes, hair and skin as you did something awful. If I look like Harry Truman or Timothy McVeigh does that mean I lose my civil liberties?
When you say "an 80 year old woman from the czech republic isn't going to blow anything up...that's the whole point. MOST people from the middle east are not going to blow anything up.
When Timothy McVey blew up oklahoma city, did you refer to all white christian men as 'these animals'?
The only person I knew who had a license plate that said 'USA # 1' before 9/11 was middle-eastern.
I could not sign onto my account so Im publishing it this way. Your points are well taken. It is my fault that I did not make my point to begin with.
I’m not suggesting for one second that because of skin color, it is ok to loose our civil liberties. My point is that Timothy McVey and WTC attackers act and behave a certain way; they both fit the same profile. They hate and they are willing to kill to promote their brand of religion. In order to stop attacks like Oklahoma and New York we have to stop them before it happens. A tool they have to do that is to profile. I invite you to offer a better solution and Ill stand beside you to it make it happen.
I make a difference. I volunteer and teach young boys that people are not objects, themselves and women. I work side by side with them two to three times per week to change their hearts and minds so people are real to them. I stop abuse one boy at a time.
I have the application for Boise Resettlement Office. Ill help refugees get acclimated into our society ASAP so the next one can come in and fill their spots. I can solve the refugee problem one person, one family at a time. Complaining and pointing fingers does not solve anything, actions do.
Just because you help with one area of oppression....like refugees and mentoring young boys, DOESN'T absolve you from being socially aware about the other issues presented. So you undestood about rape and had empathy for refugees...what about the rest??? Oppression is oppression and no one who understands this uses the term "these animals" when relating to human beings.
7 comments:
From my own experience, and I think more people in the room, could relate to the section of the tunnel where the girl is raped. Nobody believed her and I think that is how a lot of people in America don't believe that oppression is real and happening today. Nobody listens and they deny this serious problem because they believe that there is nothing wrong with leaders and that everything is just normal. The friend didn't believe that the girl was raped because she thought that the boy was harmless. The girl did a good thing by taking the case to court because it could possibly prevent this boy from oppressing other people and also help correct him. Just like this case, people need to let their voices be heard or nothing will change.
I felt like I was walking in someone elses shoes, which is great! You can hear a million times how horrible it to experience some of what was presented, but actually going through it is a completely different story.
It was good to have my mind opened to other perspectives.
We can all learn how NOT to handle rape situations.
No means no at any point.
Love does not equal sex.
The way to help a person through a rape is unconditional love not judging or making it about you.
With all of the refuges how do we make a difference? One at a time. I help mentor learning disabled kids, I will sign up to help mentor refugees today.
I don’t like profiling any more than anyone else, but 3000 people were killed on September 11. They killed every race, every creed, every color, every religion. The only thing that matter to them was that they could killed anyone associated with America. Whether you like it or not you’re here in America and now you are their next target. An 80 year old lady from the Chec. Republic is NOT going into the Sub cafeteria and blow everyone up. Give me an alternative to keeping these animals away from us and Ill stand beside you to make it happen. Until then we are all going to have to put up with crap at the air ports.
Um, what? Not sure where you were headed with this...I think the point of that piece was to comment on the nature of stereotyping, not to excuse the WTC attack.
And it's not just about being pulled off an airline based on the way you look, it's about having your life completely changed based on the fact that some guy with the same color eyes, hair and skin as you did something awful. If I look like Harry Truman or Timothy McVeigh does that mean I lose my civil liberties?
When you say "an 80 year old woman from the czech republic isn't going to blow anything up...that's the whole point. MOST people from the middle east are not going to blow anything up.
When Timothy McVey blew up oklahoma city, did you refer to all white christian men as 'these animals'?
The only person I knew who had a license plate that said 'USA # 1' before 9/11 was middle-eastern.
I could not sign onto my account so Im publishing it this way. Your points are well taken. It is my fault that I did not make my point to begin with.
I’m not suggesting for one second that because of skin color, it is ok to loose our civil liberties. My point is that Timothy McVey and WTC attackers act and behave a certain way; they both fit the same profile. They hate and they are willing to kill to promote their brand of religion. In order to stop attacks like Oklahoma and New York we have to stop them before it happens. A tool they have to do that is to profile. I invite you to offer a better solution and Ill stand beside you to it make it happen.
I make a difference. I volunteer and teach young boys that people are not objects, themselves and women. I work side by side with them two to three times per week to change their hearts and minds so people are real to them. I stop abuse one boy at a time.
I have the application for Boise Resettlement Office. Ill help refugees get acclimated into our society ASAP so the next one can come in and fill their spots. I can solve the refugee problem one person, one family at a time. Complaining and pointing fingers does not solve anything, actions do.
Just because you help with one area of oppression....like refugees and mentoring young boys, DOESN'T absolve you from being socially aware about the other issues presented. So you undestood about rape and had empathy for refugees...what about the rest??? Oppression is oppression and no one who understands this uses the term "these animals" when relating to human beings.
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