RCG ; Race & The Colbert Report

In this class we talked about race more than class or gender.

We watched the Colbert Report with 2 interviews of women talking about the books they wrote. One book was about a women who was said to be "immortal" because her cells are the only ones that do not die. However, her family is not making any money off of that and they can not even pay for health insurance. The cells were actually taken from the women without her or her families consent and the family would sue but there is not enough money in it for the lawyers to get out of it. This book to me seems rather fascinating because this women was obviously very special but she died from cancer anyways and we never got to tell her she is saving many many lives today. The second book is about white people, from a black persons point of view basically. In the interview she came off as very racist to me not only for white people but to her own race as well. When they started talking about what skin color she had, she hesitated and never really said what skin color she had. He asked if she was white and she said "Well I have a Ph.D. To me that sounded like she was slapping her own race in the face by saying only white people get Ph.Ds while black people on the other hand do not. This show was funny because he is a comedian from comedy central so he had made jokes the entire time both women were on here. With the first women he would say, and this immortal women's family is probably suffering and what not because they can not even afford health insurance, however, the people who stole her cells are getting richer and richer everyday. He stated, that is just absolutely unfair and ridiculous to even hear even if it is not happening to you and he felt bad for that family. With the second woman he just kept saying she was racist because everything that came out of that woman's mouth sounded very racist to all races. It was like she did not think before she spoke and bashed whites and blacks at the same time. She acted like she was better than both of those races and she is not either but even more special for some reason.

In this class we also discussed what we are doing in next class. We are having a guessed speaker who will be talking about sexuality and homosexuality. Then we talked about what will be on our midterm exam and what kind of questions we will see on the test.