Critique of Red, White and Brown.

"Red, White and Brown" is a post by Mike Youngblood about America's demographics changing so that the current minorities will be the majority by 2020 and how that may change societies perceptions.
I completely agree about the theory of society casting away their previous negative beliefs about other races once there is not such a huge gap between us; however, as Mike mentioned in his blog my breath is not held for such a day to arrive any time soon. My pessimistic view is that nothing is really going to change at all, minorities are still going to be treated as minorities even if they are not, and the majority race is always going to act just as that. Until society as a collective can learn to completely rethink the hierarchy that has been in place for so long, I do not think that any dramatic change will be seen.

To Carry or Not to Carry, That is the Question.

 The bill to allow concealed carry guns on school campuses has me in a bind. There are so many arguments for both sides of the story that I just do not know which one I lean towards more. 
 Coming from England where guns are illegal they have always been a somewhat taboo subject, mostly because the civilians who carried them were obviously dangerous and were therefore not talked about and were avoided at all costs. 
 Moving to Texas has been a huge adjustment in that sense, especially moving in with my stepdad who is 100% pro guns and prides himself on his personal collection. Living in this new environment for the past three years has slightly desensitized me towards firearms; however, I still do not know if I would be completely comfortable knowing that my fellow classmates were packing and I didn't know about it. On the one hand there is the argument that someone carrying a concealed weapon could diffuse a potentially harmful situation should a crazy killer come onto campus; however I do not know that my faith in humanity is strong enough to believe that one of these students carrying a gun would not turn into that same crazy killer and turn on their fellow classmates. 
 That being said I am back to being torn with this whole proposition. I guess at the end of the day it just comes down to ones trust and faith in other people because whether the bill gets passed or not is out of my hands. I just hope that if anyone were to have to use their concealed carry weapon on campus it would be to protect and not to harm.