Chapter 2

Barbra chose Maine “for its whiteness”. It was mostly white people that spoke English so it was easy to get a job. In her motel she stays at she stated that she was obsessed with her stuff, how much of it there was and how long it would last. Which to me sounds like something a homless person would say. She talks about how easy “interviews” are for low wage jobs. For one job at a torilla facorty it was just a “Hi,how are you?” , her her job fair she had “opinion survery’s” which had no right or wrong answer.She states that Portland is just another $6-$7 an hour town.p60. To get these jobs you need no experience all you need is energy and a smile.She takes a job as a maid at a nursing home working weekends for $7 an hour. There is a lot of gossip in the nursing home, things that were promised in the interview like a 30 min lunch break. Barabra finds our most of her coworkers are “poor”. She says “Do the owners have any idea of the misery that goes into rendering their homes motel-perfect?”p.89. Like the waitressing job she had she notices that people team up against the higher authority. Her attitude changes,”If I am now a productive fake member of the working class it’s because I haven’t been working , in any hard physical sense, long enough to have ruined my body”.p.90 She sees how hard you have to work for just a min. wage job. At the end of the chapter she states how the maids work so hard to keep it clean but in the end there is not going to be anyone that tells them good job or praises them for their work. “Work is suppose to save you from being a outcast as Pete puts it, but what we do is outcast’s work, invisible and even disgusting”. She says “the poor have disappeared from culture at large even religion seems ti have little to say about the plight of the poor”p.118.

Racism in the election

And if Obama loses?
By:Patrick Buchanan

As Patrick Buchanan explains, Obama's nomination is the last great step forward in the long march to equality in America. The country is obsessed with the race issue in this campaign. It show how "equal" everyone really is in America. We still have those ignorant perople that can't look past race. If they hadn't seem Obama and just heard his views,like on a radio, would it all be different? Americans do have other things they could be stressing about like the war or how each candidate can better our country but instead they will not look past Obama's race long enough to listen.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/and_if_obama_loses.html


If Obama loses racism is the only reason McCain might beat him
By Jacob Weisberg

More voters including Republicans favor Obama this year because of Bush's legacy. Obama has inspired millions with his speeches while McCain has struggled,yet they are tied. In the CBS/New York Times poll it states that 26% of whites say they have been victims of discrimination, 27% say too much has been made of problems facing black people, 24% say the country isn't ready for a black president,I do question that if not readt not then when will we be ready? And 5% say they would not vote for a black president.

http://www.slate.com/id/2198397/

Why is Obama evoking race time after time?
By:Victor David Hanson

In this election there are many accusations of racism. Where it should be a tragedy,Obama seems to be using t as a political advantage. He seems overly obsessed with his identity.He stands against racism and says it should play no role in this election but yet associates with openly racist people. Rev.Wright ,for example slurs American,Ludicris is a racist rapper but Obama is close with both of them. He seems to tolerate racism ,this is not bringing people together but actually pulling them apart.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MmZmZDlkNTg1ZmM5YjhhMzI1ZWI4ZDIzYWEyOTMzYjI=

McCain, Obama

John McCain and Barack Obama both gave great speeches. If i wasn't in a popular party both could of convinced me to vote for them. Personally I think Barack was more detailed about what he could do for America and the better change he could make. He made examples about what he could do and how it could be done.Obama didn't focus on putting down his oppent the whole time but more about the things he could do to better Amberica.



I felt like John McCain made some great points but never said what he could do about them.

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