The author of this page is a young, nerdy Freshman at Idaho State University. He’s pursuing a BS in physics, and likes writing in third person occasionally.
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I wanted to thank you for coming over and reading my blog. Unfortunately, what I write about is a growing sentiment among African Americans, particularly the ones in college, yet, gets the least attention. I agree, focusing on racial divides will get us no where; but, as African Americans, we must do something to change the trend in our culture of embracing “ghetto” sterotypes. BET, MTV, and sitcoms (written, produced, and starring blacks) have created an atmosphere where being educated is not the popular thing to do. This speads toour youth, and places the ecomomic future of our culture in danger. This is of great importance to the nation, as our economic gains and failures directly effect the national ecomomy, taxes, and social programs.
Sorry for the long post, but again, wanted to say thank you for coming by.
Looking back at my comment, it does seem rather foolish to say “just forget about skin color”, since your blog post, and ostensibly your entire blog, is about the difficulties of doing that very thing.
I read quite a few of your latest posts, and found a running theme to be specific calls to action – e.g., black girls should stop stripping (really, I think all girls in general.. but I digress) to avoid a high-risk situation and stop degrading themselves; black greeks should stop hazing, as this is simply a shameful practice that is quite pointless (but really, it’s a shameful practice in general.. again, regardless of race). Your comments are specific and useful for those who would like to get further in life, compared to my (and most white people’s) response to simply stop looking at the shade of skin.
Fundamentally, such calls to action on an internet blog are probably not reaching too many people, in terms of changing lives (IMHO…), so the only reason I’m can think of for why you write the blog is simply as a log of your thoughts on recent events – a vent. This is, of course, exactly what you state in “what is this all about?”, now that I look at it.
Anyway, just wanted to let you know I had a little more thought going on than just “stop looking at the skin”. I think it’s great that you speak out!