so this week i tried to think of all the survey questions i could ask people about what they think about discrimination against black Americans  From this i have came to the conclusion that i has to be nutso for thinking anyone would answer honestly if they have discriminated. so i thought of a new project and i am going to people watch. i am going to go to different stores and see up close and personal how workers treat black and white customers differently. i will try to see different age groups and go to different places. my mom said she would bring me into her work also to see how people are treated differently in the hospital.

surveys

i think that i am going to do a number of surveys to different groups of people. i am going to give them to 3 different age groups. one to a child, one to a middle aged person, and one to an elderly person. in the survey i am going to ask if they have ever experienced racism against black Americans  if they have ever been racist or if they have seen it. and if they have seen it. i am curious to find out if racism has changed at all over the generations. 

My research method

My topic is racism against black Americans. I am very interested in finding out how much people actually know about current racism or if people have experienced it. That is why i am going to do a survey. I want to find out if other people are interested in this topic, and if people believe something needs to be done about racism. i also wanted to do the naturalistic observation method, but i feel like in the area we live in i will not learn much. i feel like people are more secretive and polite about their thoughts on other races.

tonight i watched a video about a boy who was brutally beaten because he was white. the attackers were a black and Asian man who were apparently angry about slavery. The sad truth is that i do not know if america will ever be fully safe and moral. It is crazy how people can hold a grudge against an entire group of people. it is really scary to think that there are still people out there who have such hate in them to beat a teenage boy. video

tonight i watched a video about tiger woods. the video was supposed to be about how tiger woods was cheating on his wife, but then they got into a heated debate about how black women feel intimidated when black men marry white women. one one side they argued it does not matter at all what race you are. on the other side they said that no matter what you say that black women are just goin to be intimidated no matter what anyone says. personally i think it is stupid because i do not think that it is true. a women is a woman no matter what race they are. i know plenty of gorgeous black women and white women also. the truth is women are just going to get insecure if their husband is cheating on them period! it has nothing to do with the color of their skin.video 

when i walk through the city i see all different kinds of people. When i am in the city i see people violate norms more then any other place i have ever been. it is almost normal to be different. That is why i was very surprised when i read an article about how the New York Fire Department discrimates against African Americans. i would think in the city it would be hard to discriminate against anyone because everyone is so diverse and different. apparently the fire department makes it much harder for black Americans to get a job there. thye make the standaards and regulations harder. But, the judge said their is not enough evidence but, according to this article "“thousands of thousands of black men and women who should have had this job and didn’t get it.” article!!

racism against blacks

i watched a video that talks about the problem of police men being racist against blacks. the video makes it almost comical because it is so obvious that they are racist.They say that they are always looking for black Americans holding anything, and saying it looks like a gun. A man was holding a wallet and the police shot him because they thought he was holding a gun. to make fun of the police men this man painted a lot f wallets orange to make sure police men would see the difference between a weapon and a wallet. this video is comical but it addresses a huge problem. police men always look for a black american doing something wrong. they stereo type. video