Wake Up Everybody

Okay so I got your attention!! What is my goal you might ask, it is to raise social consciousness about the problems that have been around since this nation was born. How will I go about this you may ask? By giving you different views from people from all walks of life. for example I interviewed a young lady today from Smith College here in Northampton Mass. Her name is Raquel Lopez and she she is from the Island of Puerto Rico. Her concerns was that until she came to mainland, she really never experienced racism. She told me that on the Island of Puerto Rico, every shade of Puerto Ricans are treated basically the same, until she came to Northampton Mass and saw some of the ugly incidents like the BLACK face incident, she really never experienced the ignorant reality of racism. She did feel upset about the reality of the American government who used Puerto Rican women as guinea pigs for the research of birth control. Just liked the used the African American male in their research of the effects of Syphillis. I also interviewed a almost 80 yr old Jewish women because of the fear of retaliation she did not want her name printed. That is a healthy fear and I will respect her wishes. She did say that she feels that in this day in age that America is going backwards but she is optimistic that there will be changes in the near future. God bless you Miss. ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW: Horace Clayton A Black Sociologist Co Authur ( with St Claire Drake) of THE BLACK METROPOLIS. Moved to Sweden in the late 1940`s after several years of comfortable life free of racism, he returned to the United States. he was homesick to everything american: Ham and Eggs, Camel cigarettes even the tensions of the day. You would have to say that he was Palpably, Indubitably, Hopelessly an American. From Studs Terkel: Race:How Blacks and Whites think and feel about the American Obsession.