I found this cartoon on the internet. This cartoon is a representation of women being oppressed. The cartoon suggests that men should have all the great idea’s and women should just sit back and give men all of the ideas that they have.
This cartoon mostly relates to Johnson’s chapter 6. I believe that if closely represents “the path of least resistance.” This path that we are all guilty of taking can be extremely oppressive towards women. The reason for this is because when men in high positions select managers or give promotions the men in the high positions will choose the candidate who not necessarily who is most qualified but the one who is most like the man in the high position. This is choosing the path of least resistance and not necessarily the most qualified. That is why man men get the position and women are left in the dust. This cartoon also relates with Johnson’s Chapter 3 and capitalism. Capitalism is the reason that women are oppressed. Capitalism has put the idea in peoples head that white, heterosexual, males, who are not disabled are above everyone else. “Women’s supposed inferiority has also been used as a basis for the belief that much of the work that women do isn’t work at all and therefore isn’t worthy of anything more than emotional compensation.”(49) Discriminating against women and making them seem less valuable according to Johnson has been used as a tactic to pay women less and use them for cheap labor.
When I first saw this cartoon I was a little offended because it just seems that the CEO promoted that women just to be fair. It seems that the CEO doesn’t care about her even though she has a great idea. It also sends the message that when a woman has a great idea it is better coming from a man. Although this is a cartoon I feel it reinforces how men look and treat women.

beauty

So as you can see in my blog I was going to write about an article that discussed the removal of Columbus Day. Although I though it was an interesting news article I think that it has too much in common with the flag. I thought that I was going to be too repetitive so I decided to go with this picture of the hands. I believe that the picture of the hands best represents the article “How Our Skins Got Their Color”

This article to me embraced both the white and black skin colors. On the first pages Harris writes about how the main reason our skins are different shades is due to the melanin in our skin. The melanin is what gives our skin its color and helps protect our skin from sun damage. The article then talks about how as you move away from the equator the skin colors found gradually become lighter. This has to do with the weather and the amount of sunlight that skin is being exposed to. When I first went searching on the internet I wanted to find a picture or an article that expressed the differences in being white and black and being beautiful at the same time. I only found this picture that to me well fits in with black and white beauty. To me this picture is absolutely beautiful in its simplicity however it some how ties in the two races. This to me fits in with the article as white being beautiful and black being beautiful. Another reason I chose this picture is because when I was looking up black and beautiful on the internet I was unable to come across a dark skinned black person. I was using the keyword beautiful in my search and I believe that typing in beautiful had something to do with the fact that when I searched black and beautiful I only found light skinned images. This picture shows a darker skinned black persons hand which is what I was looking for. In the article white was beautiful because it was healthy and the lighter child was more likely to survive and black was beautiful because the darker skinned child was more likely to survive.

I really enjoy simple art like this picture. I feel like this picture truly does speak a thousand words. Something that came across my attention while searching for black and beautiful was the lack of dark skinned blacks that showed up in my searches. It seems that being black and beautiful means that you have the lightest skin color possible. That is a reason why I chose the hands is because it was the darkest skin that showed up in my searches. It boggles my mind how we used to be a society that put emphasis on the darker you are the more beautiful you are and the lighter you are the more beautiful you are. Now when searching for beauty you find tan white women and light skinned black women.

Media Item 2

http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_5057891
A new name for Columbus Day?
By Julia C. MartinezDenver Post Editorial Board
Article Last Updated: 01/21/2007 02:45:17 PM MST

The ongoing battle over the Columbus Day Parade has moved from the street to the state legislature.
Democratic Sen. Suzanne Williams is considering legislation to change the Columbus Day holiday in Colorado.
Colorado was the first state to observe the holiday in 1905. It's now a federal holiday, which will be observed on Oct. 8 this year. American Indians have long protested Denver's parade celebration, saying Columbus did not discover America and was neither a hero nor a role model.
Williams is a registered member of the Comanche tribe of Oklahoma. She says the various factions of the American Indian community are "ready to move beyond protesting." Williams said she is talking with government leaders and studying options for legislation.
"One option is to change the Columbus Day holiday in Colorado," she said, which could "possibly" involve changing the name. "All Nations Day" has come up before. Another option is to change the "parade structure" to have an event "of many cultures." She hopes to engage the people of Colorado "as we look at the reality that Christopher Columbus did not discover America."
So far, Williams hasn't engaged the Italian-American community, which has been protective of the annual Columbus Day celebration. Pam Wright, state president of the Sons of Italy, said, "It's really sad that people have to rain on somebody's parade. It's a celebration of what our ancestors did."
On Columbus Day, Italian Americans celebrate their heritage and commemorate the day Columbus landed in the new world in 1492.

This week I focused mainly on the history of America aspect of what we learned. The reason I focused on the history this week is because I feel as though history is such a big part of our Education and it feels like such a slap in the face that what we have been taught isn’t really the truth. I literally went on google.com and typed in Columbus Day under images. This flag was one of the pictures that stood out. I chose it not only as a protest to Columbus Day but as an icon for most of the things we learn as history.

The flag reads; We live in a country founded by cheats, murderers, rapists, thieves, terrorists whom captured killed enslaved millions of Americans whom killed more natives than Nazis did Jews while the catholic church is behind the altar justifying molestation, god bless America. I believe that this media item closely relates to the article we read about Christopher Columbus because this image represents everything that we were not taught. In the article the first thing that reminded me of the words on the flag was the first paragraph on page five that was continued from page four. The article write how it wasn’t in face Columbus who discovered America but a man by the name of Rodrigo. This clearly show that Columbus being give the title of the founder, cheated Rodrigo out of the praise he deserved but the money he should have received also. Earlier on page four Zinn writes “Spain had tied itself to the Catholic Church, expelled all the jews, driven out the Moors.” This quote to me relates to the flag also because Catholicism was behind the coming to America and was behind watching many of the horrifying events in history take place. The last excerpt from the writing that I believe relates well to the image of the flag can be found on page eight. “But in the history books given to children in the United States, for generation after generation, it all starts with the heroic adventure-there is no bloodshed-and Columbus Day is a celebration.” This flag embodies everything that Zinn was writing.

I chose this image for my media portfolio because I believe that this flag has an extremely powerful message for everyone. I believe that the protestors really got their message across. After reading all about what a horrible person Columbus is I can’t believe that we still celebrate that day in October. I do however think that maybe instead of celebrating that day that we should re-write the history books. As a catholic I was a bit personally offended by the end of the flag where it says the catholic church is justifying molestation and watching all of this happen. Although the catholic church has been involved from the beginning, because all of the people who founded America were Catholic, I do not however feel we should place the blame on them but more on the history book writers and the educators of America. I do feel that if you are going to educate someone you should teach them the truth.