April 18

I was not in class today due to my finger.I had to have my finger sewed back up. I got the assignment and it was to watch Bamboozled and answer the questions. This was an interesting movie be Spike Lee. I felt that white people were made to look like the bad people on how white people portray blacks in the media. I think it was a good assignment and it was interesting to see how it all panned out.

April 4th

Today in class we discussed and view d videos of comedians making jokes about races other than their own. The one video we watched was Gabriel Iglesis. He was making jokes that referred to the African American race. The problem that was brought up was the fact that he was Hispanic doing African American jokes. To many people that is not offensive, but to others this could be highly offensive. In his skit he played a joke on another comedian where he made a basket filled with stereotypical African American objects. So we broke up into groups and we were assigned a different race and we made a basket for that race. It was easy to see after going over the different objects of the baskets the amount of stereotypes that are portrayed with each race. i find these tings to be very funny, but i know when it is crossing the line.

March 28

Today in class we went to the computer lab to look for pictures that themed race, class, gender, or economic status. It was a fun assignment because it put us in groups and I love being in groups. It makes the work easier and more fun because I would rather work with friends then by myself. That is just what kind of person I am though. It was a fun project looking for pictures though. The internet is a crazy thing and people are not afraid to offend someone with their posting of these bizarre pictures. Even though there were some bad ones our group managed to find some funny ones to present in class.