As of an hour ago, it's Sunday. Which means I have to go to school tomorrow. Which means that if I stay up this late today I am totally going to hate myself tomorrow which if I stay up this late will somehow wiggle its way into becoming today even though as of this moment tomorrow is still tomorrow.
My mind is always turning the most gears at about 12:30 (why??? I dunno)... and I really need to quit with the whole "making my own bad habits" thing. Darn these breaks. They offer so much freedom, and when you have that snatched away, you don't know what to do...
Anyway, since I'm talking about school again anyway. (Sigh.) For English class we have to do an interview project with someone who was living during the Civil Rights Movement. I really was dreading doing this, but I have had the actual interview part done for a while (though I didn't ask a couple questions, so I might have to do part of it over the phone to get to the 20 question minimum), so the hard part is done. From here all I really have to do is edit what my grandma Mae said so that it makes more sense and finish up with my reflection, which is almost done too and I just have to do some more editing on.
The reflection part is what I like the most about this. It kinda gives you the freedom to say what you think about Civil Rights... I love giving my opinion on things. :D It's one of my favorite things to do. So with this project we were kind of able to say in the reflection what disappointed us about the interview - so kind of like a debate with your view and their view. I freaking love debates. In seventh grade (?), I almost joined the debate team at school. I just really didn't have the patience to do all the boring things and not get to pick and choose what I fought over, so I walked out of the meeting. YOOHOO, MY THOUGHTS ARE OVER HERE. Anywho.
So far in my reflection I've really only talked much about the attitude that Mae noticed other people had, though most of what she said had to do with the Japanese and the Germans, probably because what she grew up around in her teens was World War II, and that seemed to impact the views people had a lot more than the Civil Rights Movement affected their view towards blacks. Most of the prejudices and discrimination she talked about were towards the Japanese and the Germans, mostly because they were enemies during WWII, and some people just never got over that. But there were some interesting things she had to say about people's attitudes towards African Americans too, such as how in war the men would refuse to fight beside them, so there was a separate group for them (same as the Japanese and German), how their jobs were always servicing other people, not big jobs, and how a woman she worked with had been surprised by herself that she had become friends with a black woman (as if it is something she would have usually not been able to comprehend).
Ha ha ha... That's a lot of the ideas of my reflection right there... Luckily, I was able to say "other people's view towards ____" because my grandma Mae has a good outlook and looks for equality for all people, because "They're part of the world, and we have to get along with them." :) I'm so glad she and I share the view.
Anyway... if anyone is reading this and hasn't done the project yet, and you do in fact have to do the project at all, it's really helpful to have it recorded. I could barely understand what questions I actually asked, let alone the answers. It was way helpful to hear my own blabbling little self asking questions and getting answers again.
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