WELCOMING FAMILIES FROM ANOTHER WORLD:

This week’s blog assignment is a creative one and interesting one. The country that I Chose to pretend that my family’s origin is from is Africa. I am very interested in learning about Africa because of all of the negative information presented on the news. I feel that everything is not negative but there is a good side to every situation.


The first way that I will prepare is to learn about my family’s language. Learning to communicate in a person native language helps lessen the barriers of communication issues. The second thing I would do to prepare myself is learning about the various food my family likes. The third thing I would do is learn about cultural backgrounds the do’s and the don’ts. The fourth thing I would do is learn about my family’s religion so that I may not offend them in anyway. Finally the fifth thing I would like to know is what is important to my family. Knowing the above listed information would help me and my family form a relationship so that they may feel comfortable in a safe and secure learning environment. This information will also benefit me as an educator because it will help me to be able to implement this information in my lesson plan.

THE PERSONAL SIDE OF BIAS, PREJUDICE , AND OPPRESSION

The prejudice and bias that I recall was in a movie “ A Time to Kill”. In this movie this black family’s little girl was raped, and left to die by two white males. To make a long story short, the father shot and killed the two white males for what they did to his daughter because the judge only gave the two white men a slap on the wrist for their action. The black man (Samuel Jackson) hired a white attorney and his reason for this action was because he (Samuel Jackson) told the white attorney that he was one of them (meaning he was white) so if anyone could get him off for murder it would be someone who thought like or hated black people like the white jury did. Well to sum it all up the lawyer in his closing argument stated that this man was in the position that he was in because he was black. If the jury would search their heart and think that if someone would hurt their daughter a white one like that then they would have acted like Samuel Jackson.
The prejudice or bias in this situation dimension equity because in the South when their was a separate line blacks where treated different because of who they where. The same incident could have happened to a white child and the outcome would have been very different. There first would have not been a trial for murder.
This brought up the feeling that prejudice exited even though the type of incident that occurred no one should have saw color but a crime was committed and it destroyed the life of a child.
People would have to change because prejudice was shown on both side the African Americans and the Caucasian..