Now, before you go posting hate comments, please, read my full post. If you aren’t actually reading this, and you post ignorant comments, you are just going to make yourself look like an ass.

Now, I’ll get on to explaining my title.

Right now I am attending a college Intro to Sociology course at my local community college. It is a very interesting class, but unfortunately, its part of a program that tosses kids like me who have just graduated  highschool into some classes so they can transfer up to a University, without paying too much for your general education classes.

So these students didn’t CHOOSE to take this class. There’s your first problem eh?

I have some friends in the class. One was from my highschool, so I already knew him, but the other I friend I made on the first day. The three of us became good friends right away, and we have a few drifters that are in and out of our circle. We don’t exclude anyone, and people can go other places if they want. We are kind of the outcasts, but the loud and obnoxious outcasts that you don’t forget too soon.

Then there is a certain group of students who are the typical “popular group”
A few girls, a few guys. Underage drinkers, they’ve admitted it. One of them threw a jug of orange juice at me, long story. And I can tell that they laugh at my friends and me behind our backs when we say certain things.

You are probably thinking, what’s this got to do with rape? Patience.

Today we had an activity in our Sociology class where the teacher instructed us to come up with the top ten things that could be changed or put in place that would create the MOST amount of crime in a society. He wasn’t asking for us to create a society where crime was GOOD, he was asking us what a society would look like if it had the most crime possible. Our top ten had to fit into different categories that were based on the theories we learned in class, with the number one cause for crime at the top

Here is our group’s list
1. Desperation
2. Force certain people to do certain jobs, based on things such as race, religion, height, weight, family
3. Limit people’s privacy. (Ex. You must record every time you and your partner have sexual relations, and if those relations result in fertilization.)
4. A child’s upbringing depends on the location of where they were born. (Ex. If a child was born in neighborhood ‘A’ they would be raised to be a Christian child, where as a child born in neighborhood ‘B’ they would be raised with daily beatings and a crack whore mom. Now, I understand this already is in place, to an extent. But it isn’t forced, that was our point)
5. Increase Taxes, harsher rules on tax evasion
6. Give law enforcement ridiculous amounts of power

Now, I know there aren’t ten, but our group got into some intense discussions and forgot to leave time to come up with other ideas.

Here is the ‘popular group’s’ list.
1. First off, rape is good!!!
2. Must be white
3. Slavery is okay
4. Once a felon can’t go back to prison after released
5. drug dealing is good
6. Stealing is ok
7. Drug dealers are succesful
8. Murder is okay
9. Illegal to be poor
10. can’t get in trouble if rich

I copied this down word-for-word from the board where they wrote it. I was appalled. For starters, they didn’t even get the assignment right! If you made all that stuff ‘ok’ then it wouldn’t be a crime and crime would go down, not up. But it wasn’t their lack of instruction following skills that had caught my attention. It was the blatant racist and ignorant comments that just utterly shocked me. I was severely insulted. They even joked about it throughout class.

When the teacher asked them about number two, asking ‘what exactly would be illegal about not being white? Living in that certain area?” and one student responded with “just living.” the serious look on his face actually worried me.

I know this is a college course, and it’s not the school’s job to protect me, and I’m not going to go to the school. But just the fact that they would even SAY those things infuriates me. And then joke about it? Or maybe they were completly serious. There was enough laughing in that back corner to make me think that they found it quite funny.

To say that rape is good, and slaver is ok, and that you must be white just shows how completly IGNORANT and shallow they are. I’d like to say that I want to see one of them get raped and have them tell me it is a good thing, but I would never wish that on my worst enemy. Although I havn’t experienced it, I have seen plenty of the effects it has on people.

Please, be better than these kids.

Love always,
Flopryn