Blog #2

Watching the video, and reading the article about the two boys not being allowed to wear the shirts to school is ridiculous. In my high school we weren’t allowed to wear red, because that was a sign of you being a gang member. If even after the first warning you continued to wear red you had to go under detention. I think in both of these cases the school was wrong, although one of them was a little more over the top then the other. The kid wearing the shirt about Obama was nothing wrong but the school felt like that it wasn’t appropriate to school because there was a political election going on and the different viewpoints might create conflict between the students and if that was the reason that it’s still not right to ask someone not to wear it, but I can understand to a point. On the other hand, not letting someone go to school because they wore a shirt about Rednecks is over the top. There are a lot of jokes out there that people just need to take, and on the other hand letting people go to school with shirts that has pictures of violence on it doesn’t matter. It just doesn’t make sense to me. I think the SRJC is pretty good about this stuff. I trust that we are all adults and can consciously decide what we are going to put on in the morning. If it’s something we want to make a statement with, so be it. That’s why I feel that the little boy had to right to wear the shirt because he was expressing his feelings, he was proud of his president.

Blog #1

My favorite song is by Phil Collins, Paradise. It’s an older song and I have known it for a very long time. I love to listen to the lyrics and picture what is really going on in the song, at the same time it makes me think of all the little situations that we try to just ignore and pretend that it is not even there. Some of us that are lucky to have most of the things we want ignore the people or just don’t even want to think about the less fortunate. Sometimes there are people out on the street that are begging and most people don’t help them out because you never know what they are really going to spend the money on, but there are really people out there who doesn’t have a better choice. Especially now days that the economy is unstable and so many people are losing their jobs. Sometimes even 5 dollars will help someone out a lot. Well anyway, the song for me has a deep meaning and it is a good song. J Listen to it sometimes.