Blog # 6

In my opinion i do not think that jim is a minsteral. I believe that jim is mark twains idea of how a slave was in that time and place. I dont believe that Mark twain was trying to write about jim as a minstrel but only as an uneducated black slave. Many people will argue this by saying that black people arent like that but the truth of the matter is a that mark twain was writing about a black run away slave that he made up. Not once did he imply that jim was a real person and a true dipiction of how all black people were in that time.Jim was just Marks Twains interpretation of how he thought black slaves were in his time.

Blog # 5

Over spring break i saw alot of racism prsent in our society. For example every time i when to a store i would always notice that the employies were looking at me and my friends the entire time as if they suspected us of doing something.This ussualy only happened when i went to the pricier department stores and it wasnt just the employees . The customers who saw us there looked at us as if thrying to tell us what are we doing in here. This to me is evedence that racism is still alive in our society even with a colored prsident. I believe that there is always going to be some sort of racism in our society because it is human nature to believe that your people are beter that other people.

Essay #3

Angel Beltran
English 1 A
03-05-009
How I am Perceived By Others
When people look at me I know they are trying to figure out who I am just by the way that I look and this always makes me feel a little depressed because I know that all they see is some Mexican who is most likely uneducated and probably in some gang. I know that they never see me as a full time college student who is also working part time at a grocery store in some little tourist town. This is how I believe people who do not know me usually perceive me as and I think it’s not because people have strong stereotypes towards me but more because of what they see on televisions every single night. I have gotten use to it by now but that doesn’t make things better it just allows others to keep their inaccurate perception of me.
Some people might think to themselves that nobody is ever judging them or that nobody would ever think anything wrong about them. I am not on of those people because I know that we are all constantly being judged by the people around us. Some people may deny this but I know that everyone their own interpretation of who some one is from the moment they see that person. I am not saying that their interpretations are always negative and I’m definitely not saying that they are always correct about the person. I am just saying that when ever you meet or see someone you don’t know you automatically make an assumption of who that person is. I also believe that people can never truly learn not to do this but only learn how not to let it effect how they later perceive that person.
I know that people make a lot of perceptions about me when they fist see me because of the way I look and also because of were I live. I am about six feet tall, weigh over two hundred pounds, and have a tendency to wear a lot of black and red colored clothing and I am a Mexican born and raised. When people first see me they have a tendency to think of me as a violent person because the colors I usually wear are gang related. In reality though nothing could be further from the truth because I am a person who truly hates confrontations and tries to avoid them as much as possible. As for me wearing red and black they just happen to be my favorite colors and just because some gang declared it “their color” doesn’t mean I wont were it. As for people judging me for being a Mexican there is really nothing I can’t do about it without giving up a major part of my identity. What I mean by this is that a lot of people look down on or just down right fear Mexicans who look like me and in order for me to make people not think that about me would require me to live by their standards and I just absolutely refuse to do that.