Tenaya Herbold

Racism Protracts

2009-12-08T11:23:00.000-08:00

Elizabeth Martinez writes, “liberation has similar meaning for all people of color engaged in struggle.” It is the simplest movement current activists must practice, but it is unfortunate that there is witnesses of the unfair crisis remain silent. Martin Luther King also quoted that perfectly describes most of the Whites, “the appalling silence of the good people.” People to this day with more open minders still have fear to speak out, to stand up for the other group than the ones they are in, and innocently by only trying to let them challenge/compete with the whites. Instead, we focus on how people attack others, without trying to percept it challenging. Affirmative Action is programmed to get the colored and women in the skirt of competition against the whites, however they clumsily give unfair advantages to them. How could they present clumsily if Racism is the reason they must set it up? The white supremacy is found in every branch in all over the world. There are some places that the authorities even forcibly laid the whites off the fields of plants they planted for years, and assigned Mexicans to the job. It is the white men in higher level that believe they deserve better jobs. It lambasted the faith I have in Whites by how others believe that the white racial mind is obsessed with blackness. I have never expected that racial paradigm sees only two poles. There are census bureaus that say, “Non-Hispanic Whites” I really struggled with envisioning what this breed is. I feel like we all are too different to even standardize anyone. It is effortless to pursue this idea where we should not ignore them (the racism); neither should we stop there. I witnessed numerous of colored students placed into the vocational classes, and it was definitely from the administration level that placed them. I was not assigned to the class I picked, I chose the wood working class and without doubt, I shook people minds. We, everybody on this Earth, must reconsider the new meaning to the question of who deserves what. The Whites do not deserve all the privileges only because in ancient times, they ruled! It is the new decade, people got to unlock the doors and welcome the colored people to compete with everyone else equally.

Tender Hands at Work

2009-11-18T17:58:00.000-08:00

Did you know that it is a crime to exploit children in India? Talk about a corrupt government in India, the country couldn’t manage to enforce the consequences of those who violate the law, and/or does the crime themselves. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh is the rural development minister in the United Progressive Alliance government; he was investigated when a television channel tuned in videos of two children working in his farmland pulling ploughs. This minister made the children do the labor because oxen and tractors cannot handle the waterlogged fields. So can you imagine ploughs being pulled by children? That is a crime. Ploughs are intended for wild ox to pull them. One of the two children said, “My hands and feet ache all the time, but I cannot leave this work. I need to work for food. “ (Vinod, 2007). It is harder as the children in rural areas are often unnoticed, but it is not uncommon to find very young children clean in restaurants miles away from hi-tech. The government has been banning child labor, thus it is a hard truth that there are still child slaves. They continue to serve even as technology grows upon them. Temples in south India no longer appear as a place to worship, but a place for children to beg. Children, who work at small teashops, a fast-food outlet, or site of construction, are often underpaid. They suffer being overworked and abused to earn money for family. Children are considered an important source of family income. What kind of minister is he who enslaves children and justifies the laws? As Vinod addressed that most public officials and politicians in India have a history of breaking rules and regulations apart from being morally corrupt. The laws were formed last year to ban on child labor, it was strengthened and included restaurants, but no practice of these laws were witnessed. Vinod’s research attested many of these outlets still employ children in large numbers. It is fortunate that there was a recent demand to have him resign, but when he was found guilty he most definitely should pay the price!

http://www.stolenchildhood.net/entry/india-union-minister-raghuvansh-prasad-singhs-child-slaves/

Rights, respect and responsibility

2009-11-11T19:49:00.000-08:00

Bringing children’s rights to life in UK schools

LONDON, United Kingdom, 20 August 2009 – Every child has the right to an education which should develop his or her personality and talents to the full. Every child has the right to have his or her voice heard. These are just two of the 42 articles which make up the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

I spent the night tonight seeking for an article that would blow my mind so I could also let it blow others by sharing. I was not carrying much of luck until I stumbled upon this article. In particular, this has enlivened me by the fact the school acts veritably on its own title, it goes Rights Respecting School Award. This award programme is empowering the rights to children. The purposes of this program are enriching and have continuously changed children lives. Teaching children that with rights comes with responsibility and reminding them about the rights of other children is the solution to many broken rights for children. All the children who are under RRSA come from diverse backgrounds, so the fact that they are learning with other cultures and about other cultures, will make them more inter-culturally competent. It is impressive that the children who attend RRSA speak over forty languages between them, and speak English fluently as secondary language. Reading this article has brought me to the sense of comprehending the best way to make the rights respected are to have them be endorsed. I am more than confident after this article that it is not authority that is guaranteed to protect the children, there are many countries that is corrupted so authority is not to be trusted. Now, it is children that could protect themselves the best with the knowledge of their own rights. I am appalled there is such school like this, and it is pretty unfortunate that I live far away from UK. I must give this program a big kudos to change the new cycle. Now I, personally, am curious how children in UK would affect Europe, then the world.