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Blog 082714
Ch. 4 and Ch. 5
These chapters seem to mainly focus on leading by example, but kind of to the extreme, as in "My parents made sure that the white famimlies who didn't move would never have legitimate complaints about their black neighbors". They had to destroy stereotypes with their own behavior and always act perfect. I've always followed the idealistic paths of doing what you want with your appearance and your life because it shouldn't affect others, and that all humans deserve basic rights so the way you act shouldn't affect that, but unfortunately the masses of people who vote say otherwise. Opressed groups have to be better than their oppressors by an obscene amount to get half the rights that they get. Even when you are that good, many will see you as an "outlier". I think Michele's parents thought that acting the way that they did would change people's opinions, and maybe it did, but I don't think i would reccomend that lifestyle to anyone who doesn't enjoy it. Just living your life to the fullest should be enough to make someone accept you, because everyone deserves rights, but unfortunately that isn't the case. This would also make me think that the amount of work they put in amounted to nothing, but it likely didn't. I'm sure that they changed the views of the white people who stayed in the neighborhood by proving theyre humans and theyre wonderful people to be around. Maybe changing stereotypes takes time as a more important requirement than effort.
These chapters seem to mainly focus on leading by example, but kind of to the extreme, as in "My parents made sure that the white famimlies who didn't move would never have legitimate complaints about their black neighbors". They had to destroy stereotypes with their own behavior and always act perfect. I've always followed the idealistic paths of doing what you want with your appearance and your life because it shouldn't affect others, and that all humans deserve basic rights so the way you act shouldn't affect that, but unfortunately the masses of people who vote say otherwise. Opressed groups have to be better than their oppressors by an obscene amount to get half the rights that they get. Even when you are that good, many will see you as an "outlier". I think Michele's parents thought that acting the way that they did would change people's opinions, and maybe it did, but I don't think i would reccomend that lifestyle to anyone who doesn't enjoy it. Just living your life to the fullest should be enough to make someone accept you, because everyone deserves rights, but unfortunately that isn't the case. This would also make me think that the amount of work they put in amounted to nothing, but it likely didn't. I'm sure that they changed the views of the white people who stayed in the neighborhood by proving theyre humans and theyre wonderful people to be around. Maybe changing stereotypes takes time as a more important requirement than effort.
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