A Little Lost...

This blog is just a little late this week. Between the sick dog, the new job, and the Eracism judging ordeal, things just got a bit weird. Once I got it all figured out, the judging things was pretty fun. I liked listening to the kids go back and forth and, at times, get rather vicious with each other. It made me miss being a teenager! I wonder if the project has any ties with this one - http://www.eracismfoundation.org/ . This Eracism project was created in 2006 by Louis Gossett Jr. Maybe the two are unrelated, but they seem to have similar goals. It just makes me sick that in 2009, racism is still a problem. Human beings accept all kinds of change - we are inundated with new technology and new ways of doing things, and think it's great. We are constantly changing our ways of thinking about everything - except, apparently, race. Why can't we change our minds about something so trivial as the way we look? Why do people still make decisions about others based on skin color?

Deb's blog was really interesting this week - http://djbloomie.blogspot.com/. She mentioned how she showed a video about technology in her class, and a student said the video had no claim, only facts. Do younger people, then, have a better shot at erasing racism? If they are so accepting of technology as simply "the world as they know it" (thank you, Deb), then perhaps they will also be more accepting of skin coming in a variety of colors. I think technology's biggest benefit is globalization, and the fact that it is now totally commonplace for a high school kid to complete a project with a student of a different race, culture, and religion. Hopefully, our future generations will know of racism only through history books, and will think of it as archaic as dial-up Internet.

(By the way, I think this is "evangelist blogging")