Things that ruffle my feathers.

Its bound to happen.. I see, read, or hear something that just gets under my skin. Im looking forward to class tomorrow just so I can bring these things up to get a good debate out of them.

1. A homeless man was taken to the side by a manager at McDonalds today, I didnt hear what was said, I just saw the discussion then the homeless man left. He walked around outside picking things up off the ground and when I was leaving he asked me if I had 30 more cents so he could go back inside and get a hamburger to stay warm. While I did give him 30cents, and watched him go in to stand in line. I waited in my car, watching as the manager begrudgingly served him. I didnt drive away till he sat back down where he was when I was in there to eat. 

2.   On NPR today I was listening to them talk about a book published last year by Thilo Sarrazin his book is titled "Germany Abolishes Itself: How We Are Risking The Future of Our Nation"  Even after doing a bit of research on this guy and his book. Which is mostly personal perception with no hard facts or date to support his ideals, I am shocked that in this post-Hitler and Holocaust time we live in, now some banker thinks there is a Jewish gene, and how he states Muslims are ruining his country. I lived in Germany, and there are lots of Turks, but it wasnt like I walked down the street and one minute was in "postcard" worthy Germany the next I was in the streets of Iraq. There in Germany just like here there are close knit communities of subcultures.


The reason 1 ruffled my fingers is in my Diversity class we are talking about the -Ism's... raceism, classism, sexism, ect ect ect.. now when I wrote that observatin down how many got in their mind a picture of the homeless person? What did they look like? care to share? comment and After I get a few comments I will post a discription of the homeless person who asked me for change ....

The reason for 2!!! the NY Times article or better yet google it and read a few things that pop up...
 maybe this has more to do with my Anthropology class and how I am starting to feel that it was the fault of the wealthy few that destroyed the culture of many. or I am just angry. either way this book is a FAIL!