https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc Made with a smile en-us 2017-12-05 13:53:18 UTC 2025-12-02 19:12:01 UTC hello@padlet.com tyler_conary https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc/wish/213805091 In the video clip I watched, the three topics I chose were "because african americans use the word, it's okay for anyone to use it.". The second part of the video was on how a ban on the word would be a pointless rule and the last big topic was on how in todays society the word is used as a term for "buddy" or "dude". While I was watching this video it really made me think back to the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn because the N-word is used in that book so much and quite freely. In that book, the word is mostly used to describe property, these black people were property and not really looked at as people. In the book, the word also is used as a derogatory by certain people, like Pap for example, and that is how it is used a lot today. In todays society, we as people use it two ways, one is it's used as a term to talk with your friends, kids say it all the time, instead of saying what's up dude, they replace the dude part with the N-word. The second way the word is used is that it is used to insult someone, it's used as a bad name or word. In the video I watched on the N-word, I really understood it and loved the setup. The video was straight to the point and was easy to relate to our everyday lives and society because they even did that part for you. I wouldn't mind watching more of these as it doesn't even seem like work because it's actually an everyday issue that affects my society and I enjoyed hearing about it and what others or adults think and how we can help fix it.]]> 2017-12-06 17:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc/wish/213805091 tyler_conary https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc/wish/213805707 In this piece the author talks about the book as a whole in the first couple pages. He says how he read the book multiple times and how he had hated it. After reading the first couple pages it started to kind of just nag at me why he hated the book, because I thought the book was very good, I loved it, and id read it and do all the work for it all over again. Then as he goes on in page 4 he talks about Huck being suicidal and says other things that I just do not understand. When i was reading the book i never noticed this and maybe the reason he didn't like the book very much and I did was because we both see the book in different ways. Also he mentions Jim as to how he helped Huck. I agree he did help Huck in many ways morally and consciously but in his writing I don't really understand the way he tells us Jim helped Huck, in my opinion I feel he is overthinking the book. Although I did not agree with the author at the beginning, I personally loved the way he ended his writing and he was spot on about Huck and Tom Sawyer and the entire society aspect. Also the last line he said I really liked talking about the book being classic literature and that it will always bring up questions and can always be looked at and the book can never be "dismissed" because there are always way to look at it/ examine the text.]]> 2017-12-06 17:08:22 UTC https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc/wish/213805707 tyler_conary https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc/wish/214143947 In this article, it give examples of events after 9/11. One example is that a man kills a store owner and says he wanted to go out and kill towl heads, and then he yells things like "I am a patriot!!". I understand the conflict of patriotism vs. racism, because in that case it seems like patriotism is leading to racism, but I don't think it is. I feel this way because you have to look at it from different perspectives, there are many people that are patriots that fight for everyone in our country as a whole, they are proud to be an american, and you can't say patriotism is wrong just because someone does something bad and says they are a patriot. We as a nation don't support that and that is not an act of patriotism. There are many bad people in the world, people of all races, and we as an entire nation are not supporting these few racist people who may claim to be patriotism, because patriotism doesn't cause these murdering acts and such things. Patriotism is the vigorous support of ones country, not the hatred for another race. Also in this article, the author says at the end he knows that true patriotism is working together as a community to protect eachother, working together to try and form the perfect union.]]> 2017-12-07 15:00:51 UTC https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc/wish/214143947 tyler_conary https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc/wish/214828391 On this page there were 10 different Ted talks, I chose the third one- How to Raise a Black Son in America. I thought this Ted talk was really really good, so good in fact that in the middle of watching it, it gave me the chills. I could see the affect and the reality behind Clint Smiths voice when he spoke, I could feel the passion through the computer screen and I could picture real life problems. Everyday we see things on the news, we all hear about the problems of black people vs. police, and sometimes I feel things are just being overreacted to and sometimes things aren't handled the right way, but this doesn't take away the message Clint Smith is sharing with us and it doesn't take away from him that he is indeed speaking the truth. Today in the world no matter who it is, how old the kid, if you're in the wrong neighborhood or not, if you have a toy gun then someone may assume it is real, but what makes it worse is that Smith is right, the skin color of the kid easily can affect this, and it is really sad to think about. Parents are scared for their own kids lives, and it's not the fear we saw Jim have for his family or any slaves for that matter, that was a different type of fear, today as a world and society we are all about equality and such, but in reality we are far from it, there are way too many stereotypes that affect us as a nation and will continue to affect us as long as we have the stereotypes. To me this was very easy to relate to my everyday life and society, I have many friends of color and I even have family who is of a different color, and I am lucky that where I live today, and where my family lives, that although this stuff happens everywhere, they are safer here, in Maine and or New Hampshire than many other states out there.]]> 2017-12-10 17:51:19 UTC https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc/wish/214828391 tyler_conary https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc/wish/215271275 This short story for me was very hard to get an understanding out of. For me it didn't really seem to have a message. Although I didn't really get a message, I still did like the story. It is kind of hard to relate to other writing pieces as well, but it kind of relates to everyday life. In the story, these white folk are trying to hard, they try too hard to make "friends" or to try and get these black people to like them. I see this in everyday life, especially being in high school where a lot of kids are worried about how many friends they have and their popularity. In the story we see that because the folks try too hard, other people are weirded out and want to be away from them more, and the same result happens in our everyday life. Today if you keep bothering someone and are really non-stop bugging them, it's going to make them not want to become your friend, they will get annoyed, and that's what we saw in this story, as when the boy first got there he thought they were great, but they never left him alone and bugged him most the time to do all these things, and then by the end he couldn't stand them. ]]> 2017-12-12 03:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc/wish/215271275 tyler_conary https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc/wish/215651984 For me this poem was kind of hard for me to understand. For me I could get out of it that todays generation isn't how it should be. In the poem the writer talks a lot about ancestors and "our children" which represents our society, or the young black generation. The writer talks about how the older generation fought for the younger generations freedom and rights, they gave the younger generation opportunities and rights they never had. That to me is the main message of the poem, it really makes you think and ask yourself, if the older generation came back today, if they saw our society today, would they be proud of us, and this poem is prioritized to focus on the young black generation, but i feel this ties into our society as a whole and we don't have to just single out one single race or skin color. Look at our society or nation as a whole, race and skin color should no longer be a factor in anything, that is the only way we will stop racism and such, if we make sure every aspect of our lives has nothing to do with race. As for comparing this poem to other sources, to me I can really relate it to the video clip on THE N-WORD, which I feel it is because both relate to our society today and are everyday issues.]]> 2017-12-13 00:57:04 UTC https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc/wish/215651984 tyler_conary https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc/wish/215654843 After listening to this poem, it really touched me. As I listened, I got the chills, because everything he was saying was true. This poem could relate to many other pieces, like the video on the N-WORD, the post on How to Raise a Black Son in America, and so many more writing pieces. Today, as a generation and growing up, we see stereotypes a lot, and these stereotypes sometimes are meant to be jokes, but not everyone looks at them the same way and they are very racist. This man talks about how these things affect him, how he has feelings too, and that really touched me, because when you stop and think, he is right, people are always using stereotypes about Asians and using bad derogatory terms like "gook" or "chink". The man in the video, he was talking about when he was younger, how he grew up and things seemed pretty bad, and that just goes to show you, and all of us, how lucky we really are, and as a nation and as a society, as a generation, we need to treat everyone with the same respect and just try your best to make others happy and not try to make them sad or put them down, and we all, as a world will be so much better off. ]]> 2017-12-13 01:27:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc/wish/215654843 tyler_conary https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc/wish/217223615 This piece of writing for me was a very fun piece to read. I enjoyed this piece because this year I am in crime and justice and we have gone over racial profiling. As for the actual writing, I completely agree with all the points in the piece. Racial profiling is very wrong and should not be allowed. I feel strongly about this because many of my friends are not just white, I have friends of all races and ethnic backgrounds and I care about them all and would not want any of them being racial profiled or treated poorly. In our society today racial profiling happens a lot more than we think, and it may not seem that way because of where we grew up as in places like Maine and New Hampshire you don't see it quite as much. As for the bad, racial profiling that continues to go on will only continue to create tension between police officers and certain people, for example the black lives matter and things of that nature. Also, although I feel racial profiling is completely wrong, I have to admit that a lot of people may overreact to what is not racial profiling. I feel this way because if someone just robbed a store and you have a definition of the person and the skin color is black, then you must say it to maybe help find the suspect, and if someone down the street matches the description then I feel that's not racial profiling, it is to protect other people. Racial profiling is searches and frisks for no reason, and being pulled over in your car because of the color of your skin, now that is racial profiling and we see that a lot in todays society which is how it relates to our everyday lives. Racial profiling is wrong and we have to put a stop to it, stopping it will only make things more safe and create less tension. ]]> 2017-12-19 13:30:20 UTC https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc/wish/217223615 tyler_conary https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc/wish/217228865 Today we would like to say that racism is better than it was 50 years ago, 10 years ago, and even 5 years ago, but we honestly have to think twice before saying that. In the introduction, the writer has already told us that in Australia, 35% of people witness or go through cyber-racism, which is quite a lot. To me racism has gotten somewhat better, but somewhat worse in other ways. In todays society, we don't see as much racism anymore person to person, that has started to go away which is good, racism is very bad, but the honest truth is that racism on the internet is very bad. People don't think about it because they are behind a computer screen, but words hurt and affect others, and all over the internet you see racist posts and racists memes and stereotypes. So in some ways this post relates to racial profiling, because a lot of people use peoples race on the internet to stereotype them and to racially profile them with mean racist jokes. I feel that the internet is a very dangerous place, and people need to start being more careful about the things they say and what they post, because things on the internet stay on the internet, and if one day we don't want any racism at all, if one day we want our kids to be kind to everyone, they can't be influenced by these bad racists remarks on the internet. Bullying is real, and has a big affect on people, even to the point of suicide, so just because you're behind a screen, that does not make it okay to say whatever you want.]]> 2017-12-19 13:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc/wish/217228865 tyler_conary https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc/wish/217233984 This post on ESPN dates back to 2014 which made it really cool to read because I was able to see how things have changed, and how things haven't. I am a big follower of sports, especially the NBA, and when I was younger I would look up to many athletes and strive to be like them, and that is why it is important for them to stand up for what is right. In the article there were examples of NBA owners being racist, for example the L.A Clippers owner who had his team taken away, and he was banned for life. I feel that it is important they have strict rules on racism as the younger population really watches theses adults and looks up to them. As you can see in the picture, NBA superstars like Kobe Bryant and Lebron James even stand up for these causes. For me, it really helps the regulating cyber-bulling campaign as you have stars with a lot of power and a lot of fans helping your cause. After reading this article that dates back to 2014, it seems as though not much has changed in the 2 years since it was written, but that does not mean it's never going to change. Things must come to and end or racism will continue to get worse and that is why these athletes with large followings need to really step up and touch the younger audience that looks up to them, change the future, I think it can be done. ]]> 2017-12-19 14:02:48 UTC https://padlet.com/tyler_conary/5ibmfqsnbdsc/wish/217233984