it's official! [part two.]

[you see why it's in two. people are still dumb.]

number two: we had to read a book called "road to memphis" for my adolescent lit class. it focuses on an african american family around 1945. now, since the people i know that read this blog are educated people, i must assume that you are all aware of the struggles af amer's had to go through during this time period. it was possibly the peak, although i'm not sure i can say that. either way, i am assuming that everyone understands that there was a civil rights movement for a reason.

apparently i was an idiot for making this assumption during class.

set up: a random girl, older than myself, raises her hand and states, in all seriousness, something along the lines of: "i'm sorry, but i found this book incredibly unrealistic. i mean, when they get to the gas station, so many bad things happen - their new car gets scratched by the white men, the girl gets pushed in the dirt and kicked, and the attendant won't even let them get their car fixed. come on." now, i don't know about you, but i thought it was, if anything, almost unrealistic in the fact that the african american characters weren't killed, let alone let off easily. i'm sorry. unrealistic struggles? too many of them? 1945? WHAT?!

this girl, who is apparently an r.a. and going to be teaching america's children, was just added to my "obvious idiot" list.

number three: "road to memphis" once again. a boy named ryan, someone myself and others have poked fun at for already being an "obvious idiot" that pulls his hair incessantly, decides to raise his hand two minutes after r.a. idiot does and contribute to the class. bad move number one on his part.

now, i sort of stopped paying attention after idiot girl talked, figuring this class is more useless than i thought, if these were the people in it. my ears perked when i heard, "well, it was such a small struggle in society..." followed by, "i think the author neglected one of the most interesting characters..." and proceeded to favor the chubby character that had no importance to the real story; one that most people just take for what he is and move on. not ryan. no no, he feels the need to talk about the "small struggle in society" as well as harris, a filler character, and how the author sucks b/c she didn't write enough about him. i laughed out loud.

ryan is getting on my nerves. i think he is an unconscious rascist, which is apparently almost worse than a real rascist. the "small struggle" comment in adolescent lit left me speechless.

now, i need you to understand that i have been to catholic school my entire life. this college is my first public institution. because of this, i realize i have been admittedly sheltered from races other than my own. however, my mom taught in mps [milwaukee public school system] for about 30 years and just retired... so i figure i have been aware to a point of discrimination and how to "treat others like i'd want to be treated," etc. because of this upbringing, never in my life have i been around anyone who discriminates, in all seriousness, about another race.

quote joey about writing this in my blog: "people need to know the underbelly of whitewater lauren."agreed. i can't believe these two people are going to be teaching america's children. apparently i am so naieve that i didn't think people that were this blind and racsisit could possibly be in my classes.

i guess i was ignorant in the fact that i thought that although people could be annoying slash dumb, there weren't TRUE idiots out there, especially in my classes.

i miss my sheltered catholic school life.