Saturday, October 23, 2010

Women of Color and their Stuggle for Reproductive reading

I can not believe that the U.S.  or that white people were so afraid of black or any other colors raising against them, that they would force sterilization on women who could not understand or consent to it.  Some women even "volunteer" to do it to get health benefits-which shows how well they were treated.  It also shocked me that U.S. officials intentionally gave Native Americans blankets with infected small pox in the past.  Were they so afraid that the Natives would fight for their rights, that they had to condemn them to a disease-filled-life?  Another thing that stuck me in the reading was the quote, "the best way to hate a nigger is to hate him before he is born".  To judge and decide weather you hate a person before they're are even born, just because of their skin color is wrong.  If they do think that way and act upon their misguided hatred, they are just repeating the cycle of discrimination, and equality will never be possible in the land of the U.S.A.

No comments:

Post a Comment