http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/video/flv/generic.html?s=frol02s42cq66&continuous=1

My Reaction after watching this documentary. The full version was a bit dry so heres part of it.

After watching the prisoners they all immediately identify with the discriminated group, they provide interesting insight into the how the children were so easily turned against each other. The first prisoner states that they are following their teachers instruction and equates it to the people listening to a trusted authoritarian figure and going along with whatever ideals they project; one of the adults in the earlier discriminated group equated it to Nazi Germany. It is disturbing to correlate this lesson the children learned and the Nazis but it shows how easily discrimination can start and spread. The thing that I personally took from this is the realization of how people can become jaded and hesitant when they encounter discrimination for years, decades, even generations; I can not understand this first hand as the woman from the group of adults who were doing the discrimination pointed out. It is impossible to understand the frustration that people face when they are treated as inferiors because of small cosmetic differences. Through out the entire lesson I could not help but think about the Tutsi and Hutu of Rwanda who were very similarly divided like this class. The Tutsi and Hutu two devisions of the Rwandan population that were socially separated by European colonist when they labeled one group as having superiority above the other; to this day Rwanda is plagued with the genocides of the past from brothers murdering each other because of their label, Tutsi or Hutu.

It is a tragedy that we have gotten this far in human history and tarnished the image of many people of darker skin tone. When someone says they “are black” it is historically full of discrimination from the slave trade on. “Red”, “yellow”, “white”, and “black” are all full of negative connotations from discrimination, the colors themselves cary discriminatory qualities against the people they are labeled to. While as discrimination will always remain it is incredibly important to do our best not to close out minds and subscribe to the discrimination of others. I am often reminded of a quote by Plato, “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle” this idea came to me when thinking about how someone who has dealt with discrimination their entire life can be freed, even if for a moment when they are received by someone with an open mind and open heart. 

Have you ever wondered why people like you? Why they even stand to be around you?

I get that feeling every now and then, it seems to stem from a sense of self loathing. I feel so critical of myself I don’t see how anybody could be around me, want to spend time with me, or love me! I feel like I just constantly make other peoples lives harder, like I’m just a drain of their time. 

Why would somebody want to invite me over? I’m boring, reserved, and awkward. But they still do, constantly… I feel like I have some sort of awkward growing paranoia about who I am. 

I miss a lot of things recently, maybe just because life has become MUCH more real recently. I’m faced with my own success or failure. I feel like I’m about to miss the train I need to grab to go where I want. 

I Feel like I’ve matured a lot in the past year, I see friends, and acquaintances in new situations but making they same mistakes, or staying the course.  

I feel stupid too, I can’t quite isolate the source of what is making me feel so off. I feel like i’ve left something behind, like I left something at home, my old home, my moms home. She should do whatever she wants to be happy. I feel like I need to read a fucking book and grow a god damn brain. Maybe its just resent ment for how stagnate I have been sense I moved out on my own.  

I really want this “BETTER” that I have labeled for myself. I know what I need to do now. It only seems like a matter of money to make it happen. So what it I could make it happen. WHat then??? am I successful. they say do what you love and the money will follow. And if you truely love something you will inevitably eat some shit along the way. But thats just called ” keeping no score of right or wrong” BUT THat is Love. 

I miss being able to love, its not like I dont love I just don’t love like I used to. I loved everybody in a very Christian manner, and I enjoyed it. I saw the good in everybody. Not why they are failing, not hating them. Not doing things just because of me. I said yes a lot more and ment it. I Found something new to work on. Im tired of this hating shit. I want to see the good in everybody. I want to earn everything I get. I want to feel like I deserve the things that I want. Not that I’m just some worthless sack of shit who’s just here wanting sit that I don’t deserve. Not feeling like the world should just pass me by, I want to hop on and go for a spin. 

I need to go after what I want and not just go through the motions of what might get me there. I need some gusto, some balls, some BAM. 

I NEED TO FIGHT FOR WHAT I WANT, NOT LET IT SLIP THROUGH MY FINGERS. 

GRAB EVERY OPPORTUNITY I GET AND USE IT.

AND TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED AND NEVER STOP AT GOOD ENOUGH.

fuckyeahtoyota1:

dieselhippie reblogged your photoset: FJ45 LOWBOY HOT ROD

Ok, I love Rat rods and I LOVE Land cruisers but I can’t seem to like this thing in any way…. I mean seriously I love anything with wheels but just not this one. Anybody else or is it just me? If it was lifted with…

I may have been a bit over dramatic, but I have seen similar builds with old Willys which look very nice. Maybe its the lines, or the gill of a Willys goes with the low stance and an FJ doesn’t. I think its most likely my undying love for the near stock FJ40/45,

Any way I will get over it.

Keep up the good work!

You should run a string of FJs maybe oldest and newest? 

fuckyeahtoyota1:

FJ45 LOWBOY HOT ROD

Ok, I love Rat rods and I LOVE  Land cruisers but I can’t seem to like this thing in any way…. I mean seriously I love anything with wheels but just not this one. Anybody else or is it just me? If it was lifted with some bfg KM2s and some nice wheels then I would like it, But Low riders and FJs make me cry on the inside.

(via toyotatumblin)

This is where it all started.

This is a personal note only.

This Beauty needs credit, not just taged under… “cars”

jerseygirlgonecountry:

spencerslady:

Good *clean* fun in the Florida sun!

 oh hell yess i want to be where they are right now.

Welcome to Suburban Estates, Osceola Counties unofficial 4x4 park. Amazing place if you know someone who can you get in. 

gearsandmonkeys:

Mercedes 300SL, Le Mans Classic 2010

I think I’m in love, a ratty Gull wing :0

Being poor and lazy was much more fun than this. I think I’ll be trying that out again soon.

My dads 356A European Cabriolet, One of about 68 made.

Yep thats all I have. I was wronged today, but equilibrium will eventually be achieved. Otherwise not a bad day.

Find a slow song to quiet the beast.

Close my eyes and breathe deep.

Push past what troubles the soul.

Find what good is left within.

Stay for a bit, just to sit.

Breathe deep, one last time.

Back to reality.

And carry on…

It seems I have forgotten this, how to slow down, pass the stress, find what is needed within, and just breathe. Thank you to Keane’s somewhere only we know, for reminding me.

motoriginal:

What do you guys think of the FT-86 II?

yes please!

“Well, with median family income around 46K per year, you’re making around 4 times that—- placing your family in the top 10% of income earners in the country. You have a million dollar home, a pool, and can afford to send your kids to private high schools. If you don’t pay for your children’t tuition, who do you expect to pay it? The other 90% who make less?”

It is interesting and scary that people can have “the life” and still think that “the government” should pay for their stuff. What people don’t understand is that the government doesn’t just have a ton of money piled somewhere, it comes from us. Then a transaction is made they get their cut, and then distribute it as they see fit. So if you the wealthy claim they need money then they are only depriving the less fortunate of what is truly due to them. And thus the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer.