The Political Science 110 course at Oregon State University had an interesting ability of showing difference, power, and discrimination. The class was politically based, but did not fail to show discrepancies created by the United States of America's government, past and present. This course taught me in 10 weeks more about discrimination, power, and difference then any pass courses I have participated in. This course showed me ways to consider difference, power, and discrimination and how to see it. What is discrimination? Any person may believe that discrimination can just be a thought of mind; meaning, people could just create discrimination in their mind from being too “sensitive”. However, to me, discrimination can come from a mixture
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The Federal Housing Administration had created a code for selling houses. The code was very racist, as it was mostly targeted to showing where the black or “ghetto” neighborhoods were. The color green was good, the color blue was O.K., the color yellow pretty much meant be careful, and the color red meant the house was ghetto and you should not buy a house here unless you were colored. A normal, white couple could have been looking at a house in the red zone and fall in love with the house, but then find out it is in the red zone and they completely change their minds. Also, a couple of color, who may happen to have money, could be looking for houses and come across one in the blue section that they are wanting to purchase. However, the seller will not sell to the colored couple all because the Federal Housing Administration said blue areas were not for colored people. The main focus is, someone gave a person power, who had an opinion and it automatically created discrimination. How can someone be the judge as to what makes an area “ghetto”? An opinion coming from a person with power can be very dangerous. It can change lives of people quickly. In my opinion, forms of discrimination will never be able to be completely demolished. Unfortunately, the conflict of power and opinions of differences will always be apart
The Federal Housing Administration had created a code for selling houses. The code was very racist, as it was mostly targeted to showing where the black or “ghetto” neighborhoods were. The color green was good, the color blue was O.K., the color yellow pretty much meant be careful, and the color red meant the house was ghetto and you should not buy a house here unless you were colored. A normal, white couple could have been looking at a house in the red zone and fall in love with the house, but then find out it is in the red zone and they completely change their minds. Also, a couple of color, who may happen to have money, could be looking for houses and come across one in the blue section that they are wanting to purchase. However, the seller will not sell to the colored couple all because the Federal Housing Administration said blue areas were not for colored people. The main focus is, someone gave a person power, who had an opinion and it automatically created discrimination. How can someone be the judge as to what makes an area “ghetto”? An opinion coming from a person with power can be very dangerous. It can change lives of people quickly. In my opinion, forms of discrimination will never be able to be completely demolished. Unfortunately, the conflict of power and opinions of differences will always be apart