October 24, 2012

  • Racial Experiment.

    The prompt for today is/was: Discuss how your life would be different had you been born into a different race.

    If I wasn't "white," I don't know if I would be where I am right now. My parents used food stamps when I was a baby, and I'm unsure if the same opportunities would've happened to them if they were, say, Hispanic or African American. So, it all starts there. If they would've found employment and educational opportunities in THIS area of the country, I might be where I am now. I may not be, however, dating the same person I am. It's not that he is racist or anything like that, I just don't know if we would've hung out in the same areas for me to run into him AND would I still find him attractive? And that begs the question, too, do I find him attractive because he's "white" like I am (even though I'm 99% German & he's mostly Dutch)? I haven't dated outside my "race," ever, so... it's simply a very good prompt. 
    I hope this prompt makes my students think really hard, and I hope they don't just say things like, "I'd have an awesome afro," or whatever. We'll see, I guess. I should've read through my 8am students' prompts, but I was too busy with other things this morning.