Last night there were two roberies at two different Family Video places which occured at 8:30pm. I was surprized by my first thought: an image of a white male I've seen work there having a gun pointed at him. My second thought was "I wonder if the robers are black?" I quickly thought to myself that there is a much better chance that the robers were white, high school aged, guys.

My own thinking about the inccident last night got me thinking. I wonder what all the students at IWU thought/thinking when they hear this story. How are people going to hear about this, what are the rumers going to be and how are the rumbers going to be told. This campus is supposed to be full of very educated people, but I need to remind myself that this fact doesn't matter when it comes to racism. I've tend to think that if you are educated you know the false assumptions that our soceity has created. But, since taking this class, I've begun to change that thinking. I know how clueless people can be (and are) about the issue of racism. Half way through the semester, though, I still automatically think that if your educated you know how big of an issue racism is.

If the robers, last night, are black I wonder how much of a set back will that be in the area. How many people in this community would take this inncedent as proof that black people are dangerous and bad? and how many people are going to just say "that's to bad" (or something along those lines)? And if the robers are white how long will it take for everyone in the area to lrean that they are white?

As I was typing the paragraph above I realized that I was writing about black and white people, even though I know that there are other races living in the community. I guess this is just another example of how the educated self can go aganist other parts of yourself.