In this scene, this lady is saying that she may be racist, but hopes she is not. This scene influenced my paper; because my paper was about if white people should be able to talk about race. She made it very clear that she did not like to talk about race. Even though she veered off of the subject of if white people should be able to talk about race, the point she made about being a racist really stood out in the video. I made a point to put her statement in my paper, because her statement was very honest. Nobody in the video was as honest as her. Her stating that maybe she is a racist resonated with me, because I wonder how many people would actually say that? Many people claim to not be racist and are truly racist at heart, which makes them a hypocrite. Some are racist and boast about it. There are also many people who truly are not racist and have never considered the possibility of being racist. Being racist is never ok, and no one should ever be or want to be racist, but until this world is gone, there will always be racist people. I really hope more people watch this video, especially her part, and do some soul searching about any racism they may be holding on to.
My conferences with my teacher always help me. I figure out if I am doing it right, if it is completely messed up, or if I just need to completely start over. I went to meet my teacher about my paper before the day of the conference and the day of the conference. The day before was probably the most helpful, because that day really helped me reorganize my paper. I had all the content, but it was all over the place. She told me that I needed to abandon the thesis I was going with at first, because I was not really talking about that thesis in my paper. When we finally realized what I was trying to convey in my paper, the paper was able to flow a whole lot better. We reorganized my paper to fit the new thesis, and it sounded like what I was trying to convey in the paper. After we finished the thesis, we decided that I needed to break my paper down a little bit more. We added another paragraph, and again, my paper flowed. When we met the second time, my paper flowed well, I had incorporated all of her suggestions in my paper, and I felt very confident when I submitted my final copy.
This image represents my thesis, because my whole paper is about white and black people. In my thesis, I talk about how white people do not like to discuss race, because they do not want to labeled as racist. They also do not want to offend anybody. This picture shows how there will always be a difference between the color of our skin. When I first started to do my thesis, I was trying to go with pathos, ethos, and logos, but that was not really working well. I made it more simple by writing about how the authors used visual style and editing to get their point across. Writing my thesis in this way helped me get my point across in an efficient way.
