BLog #23

1. Arana writes: "Isn't it time for the language to move on?" How do you feel about this? Why?

Its time for the language to move on because people should not be judged by their appearance. When I found out that Barack Obama was going to be our next president of the United States I was jumping around with my family. I was so happy that he had won because it was time for a change. By that I mean "Our First Black President" Before reading this article I thought of Obama as our new black president and how he was going to make a difference because his black, but some people thought the opposite. They thought that it wasn't right to have a black president because we had never had a black president ever . As we all know that back then black people were slaves and having a black person as a president would be just not right. After reading this article my thoughts changed. They changed because now I know that we should not judge people by their appearance.

One of the teachers asked me "what does it mean to call someone black?" I had to think for about it for like 10 minutes to figure our the answer and my answer was that its someone that had dark skin. I was wrong because its not only based on their color skin. For example Rodrigo he said that people sometimes think that he’s white but he’s not he is actually from El Salvador and that is someone discriminating him from his appearance. That is how Barack Obama was treated people saw him as the “Black President” but people did not add that he is half back and half white.

The "language" to me means the way we talk bad about other people that are different from us. For example Obama as our new president there are people out there that are racist. I think that in this article Arana is trying to send a message saying that the way that African Americans were treaded as slaves are stuck in the past and its time to make a change by not treading blacks like in the past, as if they don't matter. Thats why by having Barack Obama as a president is good change because we need to live in the present not the past.