Job

I have always made friends with people who were older than me, not by much maybe one or two years, but in high school my senior year all my good close friends graduated, and I was left alone my senior year my junior year was what was really fun for me. Here I am in college and the same thing is happening all over again my closest friends have graduated already except for one. I still have friends just not really close ones, but that is not the point of this post. What I want to address is that most of my friends who have graduated can't seem to find any jobs I mean I know people who did get jobs, but I also know a lot who can't. One of my friends who has a studio art degree has no job, another with a Graphic design degree has no job, sure these are artsy degrees so that is not so far fetched, but some with degrees like computer science can't find jobs either. They have all had jobs since they graduated, but they are extremely underemployed. This makes me worry about my own future. Will I be able to find a job when I graduate. I want to work in DC in government foreign policy hopefully but coming out of college I will take what I can get. Still the question persist. I really have no point to make here just expressing a concern. I am getting ready now I am taking the Foreign Service Test in October hopefully I will pass that and I am asking people now to put me in contact with some people I hope if works out. How many College graduates are un/underemployed?

Fear

One thing I can say about people in this nation of ours is that we are adept in using fear against each other. During the 2008 Presidential election the Right wing or conservatives manipulated the fear of white Americans. I watched the HBO documentary Right America: Feeling wronged, that documentary was interesting it also hurt I could see the passion they were scared of Barack Obama. They said many reasons why some were so ridiculous. They called him a terrorist, Arab, socialist, communist basically any word that has a negative connotation. Some even were just honest with themselves they didn't want a black man to be president, but he was elected and I hoped we could put this ugliness behind us. I was wrong. I was so very wrong. First they say President Obama isn't even an American that he is a Kenyan, it was on the news for so long. I could not go a day without hearing about it. Why can't he just be the President, he won fair and square. Let him serve us to the best of his ability. Then this "Town Hall" thing happened. These people are yelling to to be yelling. I have heard "I want my America back" " I don't like what my country is becoming" "what happened to the America I grew up in" "This isn't my America". Maybe I am being sensitive, but I feel that despite all the problems that they claim it all boils down to one thing a so called black man is president he is really mixed, but either way it doesn't matter he is considered black. I feel that these people feel that they are losing not their country to black people, but that they are losing their superiority over all minorities. A black president, A Latino Supreme Court Justice. They are scared this hurts me. The conservative leaders of this nation are doing nothing to prevent attitudes like this. In fact they are encouraging it. Glen Beck is a fear monger, he says the most ridiculous things. I mean he has said thing to the effect of President Obama is a racist, Health care reform is just a way to get reparations, he alluded to eugenics. Glen Beck is promoting hate and Rush Limbaugh and so many others. I feel that it all boils down to they feel they are losing their superiority over minorities. How am I supposed to feel about this as a Black man? That average Americans, people who I grew up around, who taught me is school, people I went to and do go to school with are so afraid of being true equals with black people and other minorities that they fight with a passion I have never seen them tap into is the thought of being my equal in every way that much of a threat? There is enought racial tension and problems in this country the way that conservative leadership support these attitude is not helping. I feel hurt. Can someone tell me why?

Polarized

This country has always been a place where ideas and morals were always on the opposite ends. The Colonist debated independence or loyalty, the founding fathers states rights vs federalism, then slavery against abolition, industry tackles progressiveness, The civil rights battle. Now there here is where the current polarization of America started to make itself visible. Present day, we have liberals and conservatives. Neither are completely wrong or right, but both do have one thing in common they have their extreme people. Recently in the news this has been extremely obvious. Recently Bill Maher said that America was stupid. He said this probably his anger over how certain ideas and people can become popular in America. Ok misunderstanding, but when asked to clarify he would not or even change what he said apologize or anything. Maher has always been a hardline liberal and has criticized America plenty of times, but so have I. Criticizing this nation means you hold it to a standard and want to uphold it, but saying America is stupid is just wrong and hurtful to the American Cause of Liberals. Liberals have been labeled as anti-america or not American and saying things like this hurt us. Then on the opposite spectrum is Glenn Beck he said that President Obama is a Racist. This is not good with the recent Gates situation race tensions are already too high. Saying unfounded things like this is just wrong and hurtful to the process of healing that this nation needs. He has also furthered the stereotype of conservatives. There was a time when saying things like that would have ened the careers of both of them. What they said was uncalled for. America has become so polarized that people can say thing and press ideas that are simply wrong and it is ok Maher and Beck will fell little to no fallout over the things that they said. What has America come to when one man can say America is stupid and the other can call the president a racist? Well this has been happening for a long time, The Kanye West thing and the many Rush Limbaugh things it is so sad to me that America is so split.

The iRan

Well it has been a long time since I have blogged my life has gotten hectic work school plus other things, but I am just going to try and jump right back into this.

One of the big stories in the news lately has been the fall out from the Iranian elections. The elections were rigged obviously, but the situation is a very complex one from all sides even from the so called reform candidate. I am glad that the people of Iran are standing up for their rights. The Ayatollah was always gonna be the one who decide who won that election the fact that is was rigged in favor of Ahmedinejad should be no surprise to anyone. Even if Mousavi had won what difference would that have made? Mousavi had been Prime Minister, he was a follower of Ruhollah. The truth is I hope Americans are not thinking that the election of Mousavi would bring about change in the Islamic Repubic of Iran. The biggest things that Americans want changed, Iran's Nuclear program would not stop if Mousavi was elected he was the one who started their nuclear program afterall.The country is a Theocracy and until that fundemental factor is overturned real change will never occur in Iran. The truth is that no matter who is elected the Aytollah is in command of Iran and his will dictates policy in Iran so until Iran is no longer a Theocracy and/or the Ayatollah is out of power Iran will have no real change.