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| Its been a while since I have updated last. I believe that God puts stress in our life sometimes to teach us something...that I hate West Texas. Don't get me wrong, I just hate the area and not having a job yet, even though I'm still in school. I know who I want to marry and that she is my one. I just think its funny how a few other people knew before me, but I still think I've known for a while. She and I have started preparing for the rest of our lives and its great, but I still get so scared of the future and the uncertainty. I know that being with her is something that I want and I know its what she wants... Right now I'm in the student union place and refusing to work on hw which is something I cant really do anymore. I know that I'm a little ahead of the loop right now but I just think that I should be farther ahead so I can really focus on my thesis. I think though that if I can finish almost all of this stuff then I will be ok to work on it after Spring Break The one big fear for me right now is not passing these stupid certification tests. Please say a little prayer for me cause I know that we all need it. cade | | |
| So I guess it is time to updaork in update. School is stressful, but that is what is good about it, when its stressful and you still are able to pull through with A's. I really have begun to think about getting a doctorate in Education, that way I can be an educational historian and perhaps teach history courses and teach education courses, I know other professors do it at much smaller schools, but even that is increasingly becoming more rare. Anyways, I just know I want to teach and be able to research and work in a Christian school. Any ideas? Isn't it funny how as undergraduates we have all sorts of ideas about how we want to get doctorates and what not and then when we get a taste of graduate school and soon decide that we might get one but after a significant break from school. Well I think graduate school is great and that everyone should get the chance to attend. It not only helps break the bonds of undergraduate "superiority" mentality, it also helps students to recognize that we really are not as smart as we like to think we are. Well enough ranting about school and research and the future, I was able to go and see a friend get married tonight to a lovely young lady, I wish them the best because they are some of the best people. I wish them well. | | |
| I don't think many people have actually heard the song "Broken" by Seether ftng. Amy Lee of Evanescence. The chorus really stuck with me this week despite the numerous hours in the library. "Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome and I don't feel right when your gone away." This simple statement implies such a disparity that one can truly feel when something that they truly care for is apart from them. I would suggest that any one who can gain a positive feeling from this song to do so, because not only does it speak of loss but it also makes the listener to resolve their own personal issues with a lost member. | | |
| Lately I have been reading Cornel West's Race Matters, a leftist description on the current (1990's) race situation. He argues that White America has been pushing the black community into degradation for far too long. This call to civil and racial equality comes more clearly into view into his later writings. This will be a short entry tonight. The problem with West's argument lie in the fact that he contradicts himself when he says that White America has been characterizing the black population and forcing them into the shadows of the country. Herein lies the problem, West argues that this sort of social prejudice is a common root to many of the social problems in the country. However, in his introduction, West states that "We confine discussions about race in America to the "problems" black people pose for whites, rather than consider what this way of viewing black people reveals about us as a nation." Here West commits the same sin that he argues that White America has been committing for centuries. To take the humanity of an ethnic population in the way that West has is to committ the same sin which he deplores. To draw such generalizations for any race is to label me, a white American, as a person who actively seeks to put myself above the black community. While this is about as true as me being an active member of Voldemort's group of Deatheaters, it criticizes me and my white counterparts for the role that I have taken in the degredation of the African American race. To you Cornel West, I think your judgement of white society is ill developed and has very little subjectivity to any normal white American! | | |
| As I was driving to Abilene last night a thought entered my head which forced me to finally make on stand. The current political argument for supplying African Americans with reparations for the injustices of slavery is now a major part of particular poltical platforms of at least one Democratic candidate. Here is my opinion on the matter. If an African tribe took one of my descendants hostage while on a sight seeing trip in Africa, I would not seek reparations for their injustices. The majority of the reparations would undoubtedly be used for personal means and not towards a greater good. However, the biggest problem with reparations is that those who would benefit from it are generally seeking to supplement their current monetary situations. I ask, what would be the good of paying reparations? While some may argue that reparations would be the final act of releasing current African Americans from white oppression, I feel that this is a incredulous claim. While the white population is characterized as oppressive, sometimes not even knowing it (see works by Ruby Payne), there is little or no validity to the claim that African Americans are still suffering from the effects of slavery. To further prove my point, how come the current Jewish population are not seeking reparations from the German government for the imprisonment of their family members during WWII? I rest my case. | | |
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