Anti-Violence

In this country, it is the norm to take mostly everything for granted. Most of us as Americans never stop long enough to realize that there are millions of people throughout the world that don’t have anything to take for granted. It’s a sad reality that many people, mostly children, face daily.

It's a powerful word.
Used SO carefully by American politicians.
Cause God forbid they use it to describe the annihilation of 1,500,000 Armenians in Turkey at the beginning of the 20th century.
And God forbid they do anything about what's going on elsewhere!

I thought maybe since I this is my first blog to start out with something nice and sweet, but my life has been the farthest thing from it lately. A couple years this great movie Mean Girls came out and it was a hit. It was a hit with teens across America because it represented true high school life. It showed that even the bitchiest girl could beQueen Bee if she was hot and rich.

Im only 22 years old and can see how todays' children and teens have change since I was teen. Perfect example, when I was in high school my school was considered as one of the best schools in the area, but just after I graduated everything change. An everyday life at high school was just plain joking, showing school pride, and trying to out do the next person in academics.

As I was visiting my boyfriend at his school this last weekend we were driving down the street and passed the women’s transit. He turned to me and expressed that it wasn’t fair that women could call at any time and get a ride anywhere for free. I turned to him and exclaimed that if men would stop attacking women we wouldn’t NEED women’s transit!

When I heard the news of yesterday's shooting at Northern Illinois University, I first did the sad math of the past few months. This is the fifth school shooting in a week. They follow two mall shootings in December. Then I wondered what could possibly be fueling the combination of aggression and despair that leads people to do this.

everyone knows about racism. but people only think of it as being against blacks, or asians, or indians. but, you know what, due to all of the special attention given to these "minority" goups, whites are being singled out. many scholarships are offered to all non-white students, or what about these all black tv shows and radio stations?