Kyle's Thoughts

Colorblindness. When many people hear this term, they think of it in a red-blue colorblindness context. Most may not even know the racial definition of this term. Racial colorblindness is  belief that racism is no longer a problem and that we all have equal opportunities. Many people who practice this will say that they "do not see color", this is why it is called colorblindness. Although it may seem like this could work, this  ideology is counterproductive and shouldn't be practiced. Ignoring someone's race isn't right and promotes ignorance. Instead, people should view all colors and celebrate diversity and integration of colors. Talking about these racial topics ma de me think of another racial topic that has been trending in the past year. Affirmative action. Affirmative action is  the practice or policy of favoring individuals belonging to groups known to have been discriminated against previously. This has been considered to be added into the college admissi...

Nick is gay. At least, I think he's gay. Well, I'm not too sure. But, Jordan must be lesbian, right? Well, nobody can be sure about that one either. The thing is, Fitzgerald writes The Great Gatsby in a manner where we at first think the characters, for the most part, are heterosexual, but when you dive deeper into the text with attention to specific words and details, the reader thinks that the characters may be homosexual or bisexual. This means that The Great Gatsby is a "sexually ambiguous novel". Nick's interactions with women make the reader believe that he is straight but when he describes Jordan he uses very masculine terms. He describes her as a cadet, or a young boy, with her short hair. Another reason to believe that Nick is gay and Jordan may be lesbian is Jordan's gender ambiguous name. Also, Nick's encounter with McKee makes us suspicious of his sexuality, but it isn't clear that Nick is gay because he blames his actions on his drunkenne...

This week in class we started reading and discussing The Great Gatsby , by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In this book, there has a lot to do with money, specifically old money and new money. This division is made clear by the separation of the two groups into the different eggs. New money lives in West Egg whole old money lives in East Egg. This makes the division clear for the “money groups” but there are also subtle details that add to this division. First, there are a lot of talks about the color gold and yellow. Usually when talking about wealth people will use green or gold as a symbol because green is the color of US dollar bills and gold is gold. However, Fitzgerald uses gold and yellow as symbols of wealth. Nick describes these two girls at the party. He says they’re “two girls in twin yellow dresses” (Fitzgerald 48). These girls are described from their clothing and we never get to know who these people actually are. Since they are described as wearing yellow dresses, I think yellow is...

Ah, Monday, after killing 4 white girls, having dinner, and getting a good night's rest, here I am. Just another long night at the office for me. I still don't understand how Milkman thinks I am in the wrong. He thinks that what The Seven Days is doing are hate crimes or something of the sorts. HOW? These white folk commit hate crimes against us blacks, and we're supposed to just take it? No, Milkman, I'm not gonna sit here and let these white people kill my people. As a member of The Seven Days, I know the true meaning behind our actions. We kill these white people out of love for black people. So, how could you think of it as a hate crime. If anything, it is a love crime! And at that point is it even a crime. I understand that killing someone is against the law and a "crime", but if you have the correct intentions then it's justified. Right? People don't get arrested for acting out of love. They get in trouble for doing things with malicious intent. ...