Friday, October 16, 2009

Ebony is to Ivry as Oil is to ...?

Well I certainly cannot say I disagree with JOP (Justice of Peace) Keith Bardwell on the issue of inter-racial marriage.Bringing the children into the argument would have made a strong point if Bardwells statements had not been so clouded. Although I do not endorse inter-racial relationships for an entirely different reason, the children most times are typically the the victims in the situation.These children face adversity all throughout life because of who they and how they look. Making friends presents a voluminous task in itself but when that decision is made for you by the way you look its almost impossible to be yourself. These kids would always second guess themselves; should I hang with these kids or chill with those? Will my other friends be offended if I do something that they are not accustomed to ? Journalist and editor of The Daily Kos, Tim Lange (a.k.a meteor Blades) writes an editorial on JOP Keith Bardwell, and his decision not to marry an inter-racial couple. Surprisingly Blades dose not take a side throughout the entire article. Editorials or blogs , the good ones, are always strongly opinionated especially on a hot subject such as this. Lange makes it very clear at the beginning of the article that his target audience is inter-racial couples when he makes a reference to the Loving v.s Virginia case in the very first sentence. Blade provides an excellent amount of information but completely lacks a stance.Readers especially those of blogs and editorials expect some kind of stance from the writer to agree or disagree with.At the end of the editorial Blade leaves a series of questions unanswered .Blade provides a substantial amount of factual information that is never used one way or the other to support a stance and posed more questions that could be answered. Overall, this editorial was very weak.

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