Race and Racism Fall16 Gr.544

What drew me to this post is the subject which is drugs being legalized or not. This post made me think about this issue and how important is to figure out why this drug is not legal everywhere even taught scientist found that it is really beneficial especially for certain sickness. I did not realize that marijuana was legal in Colorado and it is interesting to see that there is a conflict between the decision of that state and the whole country and it is true that at some point it can cause a serious shift. I was not surprised by the fact that legalizing the drugs have a good impact on the economy because before, the government could not have a marge of benefit because it was illegal but now they can because they have the control on it. In every ways, I think that this article is relevant and I totally agree with it. I think that there is not point to disagree with this law. If your do not want to do drugs, you have the right not to, but it should be legalized in all the states because it can help a lot of people. Finally, it can link this concept of drugs not being legalized to racism because a lot of people connect illegal behaviour to race and black people are often the target of it.

What drew me to the blog about the article was the title. I found it interesting because binge drinking is something that people in my age group do, so to have a study done on testing it, seems quite intriguing. I completely agreed with the article as it says that people around the age of eighteen to twenty-two years old usually binge drink, no no one ever suspects anything other than that teenagers drink. I believe that the blog had some good key points about the article and helped explain the study that was provided in the article. I personally think that this topic relates to implicit and explicit racism and the stereotypes faced with that. In class we discussed the topic of implicit racism which means that a person does not necessarily know that they are being racist. Just like in the text, many adults just assume that teenagers binge drink because they are teenagers. They don’t necessarily take into account that other factors may come into play such as: peer behaviour. Explicit racism is when people are flat out racist and don’t care what other people think or say. For example: in the blog about the summary, the author mentioned that teenagers around the age of eighteen to twenty-two years old who are in school binge drink the same amount as others who aren’t in school full time. A lot of adults flat out blame that if they aren’t in school, they have more time to drink and the study in the article proved that to be wrong; which I found extremely fascinating.

I was very intrigued by your post on the current gender wage gap situation. You seem to follow the very popular view that women are somehow paid less then men for the same work. I decided to write this comment in the hope that my point of view might change your perspective on the issue. While my class ''The Myth of Race and the Reality of Racism'' mainly focuses on racism, male privilege and sexism are often mentioned. To be honest I don't believe that women are actually paid less than men for the same work. The gender wage gap, while technically true, is biased and ignores a lot of important factors. The most important one being the number of hours worked. It is clearly proven that men work more hours on average than women. This easily explains why the annual average income of a men is higher. When you say that women are undervalued in the workplace, you're not stating a fact, you're simply making an assumption based on a wide and unacurate statistic. The assumption that because there is inequality in wages it automatically means that there is discrimination. It is a fallacy. There is no evidence that proves that women in 2016 are paid less then men for the same job with the same education with the same number of hours worked. You state the example of nurses, which are usually paid less than doctors. You state that nurses are paid less than doctors because most of them are females. It is an assumption that cannot be proven. What can be proven is that doctors receive more education than nurses, which can easily explain their higher salary. But to put facts aside I would like to give my point of view to finish. In North America, there is what we call the equality of opportunities. No matter our gender, we all have the same opportunities. I believe the only reason why men earn more money in general than women is because men and women simply make different choices and want different things from life. Men, from my point of view, tend to be more attracted to work life while women are usually more attracted to family life. This could possibly explain the fact that men work more hours than women. Gender discrimination is an assumption, I believe it's simply because men and women are different.

http://nurseslabs.com/doctors-vs-nurses-differences/

http://www.canadianwomen.org/facts-about-the-gender-wage-gap-in-canada

http://www.forbes.com/sites/karinagness/2016/06/30/new-report-men-work-l...

This post made me realize how society in general is not aware or concerned about the problems that minorities face every day and how many think that segregation is not a problem anymore. I did not realize that black people were still facing discrimination when it comes to buy a house which is very surprising to hear. Moreover, it is outrageous to see that we still live in a world where people get discriminated due to their skin colour. There is a reason why people from different “races” are bound to live in poorer neighborhoods and it is because they do not have the same opportunities as others. Many face discriminations when it comes to find a job therefore, they end up having low paying jobs.

What you said about racial segregation made me think of the concept of white privileges, where people are often not aware of them because nobody talks about them. One way to stop white privileges is by talking about it and make people aware that many are not as lucky like for example when it comes to buy their dream house. By making white people realize their privileges and by teaching to young white children that skin colour does not define someone could significantly decrease racial segregation.