Reverse Racism

Everyday we hear about racism against minorities being treated unfairly and differently from the majority. We don't often hear about the "majority" being treated unfairly or differently from the minorities. It that it happens everyday but we just don't pay much attention to what is considered reverse racism.
Tonight, as I was switching the channel on the television and decided to watch the News for a bit. I came across the "Hannity" show on FoxNews. He and two of his sports colleague had a debate on the controversy about Tony Gerhart, the running back from Standford University not getting drafted in the first round and was drafted in the second round behind four other running backs from other colleges which had worst statistic numbers than Tony Gerhart. But because the other backs were black and Tony was white, those NFL teams that drafted the other backs didn't drafted him based on his talents because white running back were know not to performed as well than blacks in the NFL.
There was also a controversy about this 20 or so years ago when Warren Moon didn't get drafted into the NFL. He outplayed every quarterback during that year and was the MVP in the Rose Bowl that year. Because quarterbacks were mostly if not all white, he was no drafted. He had to go to Canada to play football to proof that he can play. Later NFL team drafted him.

The two cases are similar only in reverse. The Warren Moon case is what you see everyday against minorities and the Tony Gerhart case is what I call reverse racism, minorities against the majority (white). I think that it is unfair for the for teams to pick other players over other players based on the color of their skin just because some color are know to perform better than others. We should pick players based on their performance and talents on the field instead of assuming that certain color players can't play certain positions. If they perform well, they should deserve the spot and to be pick first in order to help the team to perform better to win games regardless of their skin color.

My perception of research and writing has changed over the last several week. I used to think that research is about going to the library, using charts and statistics, and etc. to writing a good paper. What I don't know is that research involves both primary and secondary research. Before this class, all was taught in high school as far as I remembered is mostly secondary research which required a lot of going to the library and finding as many facts about a certain topic as possible. This class taught me and hopefully most if not all students to use primary research which required one to actually go out and gathered most of the information and experienced it first hand. Primary research had made most of my paper a tad easier and much more fun to write. Not only primary research makes the paper a good paper, it makes the paper more interesting because our readers are reading a personal experience which the author experienced it first hand.

In closing, these last couple paper has given me the opportunities to go out and experienced first hand with a few of the local professionals such as; Studio of Houa, David B. Lee Dentistry and Maywood Environmental Park. Not only I get to experienced it first hand, I am also learning it at the same time which makes the whole experience more fun.

Have you ever had one of those weekend that takes your whole weekend away and you barely had anytime to do anything? With over a hundred families of relatives not including in-laws and friends here in Sheboygan. A few families are converted to Christian, Lutheran and Catholic; the majority still keeps their cultural and religious beliefs. Well, this weekend was one of those weekend. Seven close family relatives decided to do their religious cultural festival this weekend, I mean in the same weekend. So this weekend I spent most of my time running around from one family to another to help out with everything; from cooking, cleaning, preparing food, waiting and greet guests, etc. With these religious festival, you want as many people to attend as possible. I just don't understand why everyone had to do it on the same weekend. They clearly know that when a lot of families do it all at same weekend, only a few will attend and it would kind of worthless.
With the Hmong cultural, helping each other means a lot. If you don't help out others, others will not help you in the future. So being that its my close relatives that is hosting the religious cultural festival, I had no choice but to help out. It pretty much take up my whole weekend and here I am just got home typing up my blog on a Sunday night.