PROFESSIONAL HOPES AND GOALS

• One hope that you have when you think about working with children and families who comes from diverse backgrounds.

I hope to work with the family with a kind heart, with a enough understanding about their cultural with respect in effort to better help the growth of their child. We can build a relationship that is positive and strong without any bias to prove to the children that people do respect all human being even when they comes from different time and places.

• One goal you would like to set for the early childhood field related to issues of diversity, equity, and social justice.

That I make a difference in a child and their family life about diversity. That I may teach a group of children to embrace their cultural and be the person they are not a person someone tell them they should be. To make a child proud about their identity and not be a shame of who they are. To help prepare them to stand up for what is right and to teach them that they are to be treated with respect from all. To help change how they look at people and not to be judgmental towards things that may appear different or people that is different from them.

• A brief note of thanks to your colleagues.

I would like to thank all my colleagues, because of you I have gain much respect and knowledge  from each of you by your comments, questions, and weekly posting of discussion questions and blog entries. I would like to wish you the best in life and I know you will make a different in some child's life.
I WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

THE PERSONAL SIDE OF BIAS, PREJUDICE, AND OPPRESSION

Last week the Mayor from Troy, Michigan posted a hateful remark about gays on her face book page. She used slur to voice her opinion about the state of New York legalized gay marriage. The media was yelling at her asking her to stand down from her current position as mayor.

Being a politician figure you have to respect everyone. You have to uphold an ethic code about people that may have voted for you. You no longer have the right to voice your personal opinions about anyone especially in a derogatory way.

At first when I heard part of the story I thought she just posted on her face book page that she did not agree to gay marriages, at that time I felt that people were hard on her because she voiced her personal feelings about gay marriages, but later when I found out she said things in a hateful way I could not believe she could have done something so foul and had the nerve to voice it to millions by face book like she did not know that being a mayor she is representing many gays that live in Michigan and if you can accept their votes then as a mayor you are saying you can accept how they choose to live their life.