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I am sure by now my blog post is late but to honest I honestly have been a bit blocked. Like I am not sure what to write and to be realistic I over think too much. My family has been personally effected with the corona-virus not necessarily financially but with actually having it. AndContinue reading “Thinking and still thinking”

I think that it is amazing how the human mind works. Since we discuss last class what the project was all about I honestly couldn’t stop thinking about it. I would think and rethink. I would honestly carry with me a small notebook and just drop down ideas. But then I would change my mindContinue reading “Thinking mode”

When I began my research on Du Bois I can honestly say that I though I knew everything I needed to know from him but boy was I wrong. This man has done what people in their whole life can only imagine. He brought so much pride to his African American community. He was notContinue reading “Open my mind( W.E.B Du Bois)”

When the Professor mention this activity at the beginning of the semester to tell you the truth I was so clueless of who I was going to choose. I mean a bunch of names came up. Even now. As I sat down I just wrote down name after name. At the beginning I was thinkingContinue reading “Ideas still loading..”

Hearing the podcast of “Three Miles” and the way Melanie expresses herself took me back to a book I was reading for class it is called The Absolute True Diary Of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. This story has kinda the same concept of what is going on in the whole podcast. The mainContinue reading “Broken Bridges”

As I read “Sweetness “ by Toni Morrison there is a word that keeps standing out to me “mulatto”. In every single one of my English classes, this word has come out some way or somehow. This word is always correlated with a person always be lost within themselves or a person being unhappy withContinue reading “Stuck in the middle”

Upon watching the documentary “The Cats of Mirikitani,” I have concluded that being born in this country and being a citizen does not guarantee you or anyone else the rights you deserve but rather the way you look. The second-generation Americans will always be seen differently because of the way we look. Second- generations AmericansContinue reading “Racial Profiling”

As I read Fictive Fragments of a Father and Son by David Mura, there was this certain thing that kept popping in my head. I couldn’t point to it at that moment, but as I kept thinking, it finally came to my head: W.E.B Du Bois and his Double Consciousness theory. This term describes theContinue reading “Masked”