Cinco De Mayo

So at about Midnight on May 5th I was out walking. I know a young teenage girl should not be out walking at night alone but it is the only time that I am ever able to think and I needed to take care of something. I will say that I normally don't walk on the main roads that I was walking this time. Anyways when I am walking day or night I often get offered rides. Especially when my hair is down or I am wearing a skirt. I am only offered rides by older men mainly white however, on this cool evening a Mexican with a Spanish accent, and a car that "Mexicans" drive without the paint job ask me if I needed a lift. I of course declined however, I was terrified. I am half Mexican and half white and I was scared of my own kind offering me a ride. When white guys offer me rides I am just creeped out but a Mexican, I was scared. I find that horrendous. I have become so accustom to the stereo types that society have placed on me that I am nervous of my own kind. I don't know about you but thats just wrong. Then when I tried to explain it to my mom she didn't get it because she is completely white. I tried to explain it as though she was walking and she was offered a ride by an older black man and then she reminded me that she wasn't black. I explained it to my other friend who were white but they didn't get it but then I explained it to one of my Mexican friends and they were the one who explained it was because of stereo types forced upon us.

What I learned from a peer review: White VS Mexican

So if you didn't know I am 1/2 Mexican and 1/2 White. There is most defiantly a battle between the two. During the peer-review I started to see the anger that my Mexican half has towards my white half. My father has anger towards white people along with the rest of that half of my family. My father tells the story of when my great grandmother was a little girl and the white man came and said if her family didn't move away then they were going to kill them all. My dad and his siblings would look at her and asked what her family did and my great grandmother would that she was here wasn't she. That they had moved. My dad is always talking like my white half looks down on me because I am a mix. I think that they are neutral but my I was taught anger so I react with anger. I have anger towards the Mexican half for the stereotype of being hard laborers. What is a girl to do?

John T. William's

I just watched the dash camera video of John T. William's shotting. All I can say is WTF (where the fire which may not make since but I do not like to swear). I was originally going to blog about the excessive force the police used against protesters and then I saw to video. Oh my goodness. I do believe that there was so much excessiveness that I cannot even describe it. I remember going every week to Pike Place and seeing John carve. My mom who works for Seattle Parks and Recreation remembers having to clean up the shavings from his wood carving. Another part of my knowing or John is that my mom's ex-boyfriend is from the same tribe as him. I remember as a child going to the reservation up in Canada and eating his mom's homemade blackberry pie and freshly BBQ'd seal meat. That was the good times. I also remember fishing up there and eating it fresh. I am so astonished at how brutal our police has become. Please tell me how you all feel about this.

Colbert VS Alexie 2008 Pt. 1

Colbert VS Alexie <- Video link.
Video Portion: 0:00-2:40

Alright you know you have an excellent speaker when you can stump Steven Colbert. I like Colbert to a degree but I don't care for how rude he is. My mom made the point that he is rude to everyone. Anyways I got a kick at how no matter what Colbert said Alexie had a come back.

I thought it was entertaining that Alexie was able to get Colbert with the fact that Columbus was in front of his hotel room. With Colbert there seems to be a need to have psychological warfare to even have a chance on his show. Honestly I think Colbert had his butt handed to him. He finally concedes and says that Alexie and himself shouldn't be fighting but in reality I think he doesn't have any come backs.

Now the Anglo's forgiving the Native Americans was a little wack but funny because then there was a come back. I like I said think Colbert got his butt handed to him. Alexie hit Colbert with a left hook saying that they forgave Anglo's for small pox. Then Colbert tried to slap Alexie with asking for the blakcets to be returned but dry cleaned.

I thought it was interesting when Colbert brought up spirit voices. I believe that we all have them in our own way but a wolf like Colbert assumes. I think not. Then again Alexie feels the need to correct Colbert's assumption of everyone having a wolf spirit voice by saying he has an the spirit voice of a squirrel. We all have a voice of our own and it shows it's self in different ways you just need to listen to it.

Another thing that stuck out to me the assumption that all Native American's can talk to animals. That got to because we all make assumptions about different races. We assume that anyone of hespanic race is a hard labor worker or a maid. We assume that all Asian's are smart and tech oriented. We assume that whites are rich. We assume African-American's deal drugs. We assume Muslims are terrorists and opressive towrds women. The list goes on. You may not agree with these view but it happends everywhere. WE ALL MAKE SOME SORT OF ASSUMPTION ABOUT PEOPLE.

Good ol Ted

I like how Sherman Alexie portrayed Ted. I say this because people like Ted actually exist. I know some of them. They are very odd. They are as wide eyed as Ted where they want to be Native American. They crave it. I think if there was a shroom that could make them go though the process of be coming an Indian. I know that being a mix of Mexican and white I see people who think they were mex in a past life and it matters now.