Excuse Me, Your Race is Showing

Excuse Me, Your Race is Showing speaks on how Caucasian people look down on, and expect less from African American people. The author Karen Grigsby Bates has a friend who is less offended by being called the “N-word” and more offended by being called articulate. Bates’ friend speaks King’s English very well and finds himself on the receiving end of compliments of white people, but in actuality, they can really be taken as offensive comments. White people’s perception of African Americans are very low, they believe that we are not capable of advanced intellectual skills. African Americans are often looked down upon, prejudged, and aren’t expected to contribute much to anything unless it is serving a white person. Often times, white people can would treat everyday African Americans, or successful African Americans for that matter, as servants. There have been many stories of how an African American man had been mistaken for a valet parker by a white man. There are many other similar stories. Why do Caucasian people continue to undermine and underestimate African Americans when we have accomplished so much, proved so much, and done so much for this country? We have come so far as a people, yet we are still underappreciated and overlooked.

Too much time on "The Book"

I was just attempting to do my homework and I found that I kept referring back to facebook and twitter. This is insane; it is almost like an addiction sometimes. Are social networking sites becoming an increasingly interval part of our everyday lives? Is it playing too large a role in our lives? Most times I am able to control myself but I know many people that can’t even function if they are allowed to get on facebook, twitter, or any other social network. They can forget about doing work, they will often find themselves going back to facebook within minutes of beginning their work. I never noticed all the negatives that came along with facebook. Someone on Yahoo.com answers asked “What are the negatives that come along with facebook?” Someone replied
• -It is extremely addictive especially since they changed it so you can see everything your friends do and you just keep joining groups and becoming fans of things.
-Even if I have homework due the next day i go on facebook instead it's that addictive
-Fights with friends
-Privacy
-Jealousy over amount of friends
-Some people get carried away changing their status every hour and it gets really annoying
-People taking loads of pictures of themselves
-1 comment on yur status/post/wall/photo can turn into a whole conversation that yur not even involved in
There's loads more
I love facebook but totally agree with everything everyones said :DD

I found all of these to be true, or can possibly become true. There are a lot of positives and a lot of negatives that comes with social networking sites. Do the positives outweigh the negatives?