Great hits part infinity

This post was from April of this year when I was hard at work trying to find an internship. The scandal over Don Imus's comments had just erupted as well.

I am well into the new term now. My classes are becoming steadily more work. This work I have midterms in all three of my classes. I expect my history and Chinese ones to be difficult, and my black studies class one to be easy. Additionally, I have several research papers do at the end of term, and it is time to start thinking about potential topic now.

It will however be easier to focus on academics now, since the debate season is over. I was very pleased with my improvement over the season. Last week, at Clark, my partner and I went 4-1 and made into varsity quarterfinals. We would have gone even further but for lousy, biased judging. In that round we had three judges. One of the judges was a debater we had beaten into the ground earlier. Another was a judge who we had clashed with earlier and who despised us. The third judge was someone we had never met. We lost on a 2-1 decision. Go figure.

Right now, I am busy trying to find a summer internship. If I have my way, I will work with the congressional black caucus for ten weeks this summer. I am still waiting to hear however. I am getting a little anxious to be honest. I have to submit a request for school funding for my internship by April 27, and I am unsure where I will be working. There is nothing to do now but sit back and hope for the best.

I would be remiss to ignore some of the events going on in the world as these have been on my mind as well. Don Imus was fired this week from his show. I have mixed feeling. The man should obviously go for his racist and indefensible comments. But there is a tendency to think that by firing such people we are fighting racism. But I am uneasy that so many will think that they are stamping out the last vestiges of hate by firing this man. This is simply untrue. Blacks continue to face discrimination in applying for jobs and mortgages. They continue to face crippling stereotypes both within the black community and in the greater society. Black children suffer a soft bigotry of low expectations from both blacks and whites. Imus’s remarks were but a small symptom of the remaining prejudice we must overcome to get to a truly egalitarian society.