Here I Am

This year, I have begun reading many of my friends blogs on the internet. I have finally decided that it is my turn to begin contributed to this new world that I have discovered. Yesterday, while writing a paper for class I thought, "this is something garret would post on his blog." Well, why not post it on my own blog. I typed blog into goggle and created this site. I hope that through this medium, I can contribute to the thought forum that seems to be taking place all around me.

Here is an excerpt from the paper I wrote yesterday that shows very clearly how the classes I took at APU continue to affect the way I think. This paper was in response to an article I read that stated that mother's education level and race may be risk factors for children with mental retardation of unknown cause.

I feel so defensive that this cannot be true; it just does not make sense. I suppose I must return to a definition of mental retardation. This is so subjective. Do the children in this study actually have MR or did they simply fail to be born into a privileged family who had money for doctors and education and possessed the same values and teaching styles of the majority of professionals in this country. I am so frustrated with the systems in place in this country. Privilege and power breeds greater privilege and power. There is one culture in this country that expects assimilation. The melting pot is a lie. Become like us, where us is the conglomeration of individuals that were born into privilege and whose cultural values steered and supported them as they developed their own power. Once clothed in this power, they stopped perceiving individuals and put on glasses of supremacy and viewed difference as a disorder.