Blog 11

In the article "Penn State's McQueary on alleged rape:'I did stop it'...and did talk to the police", Mark Wogenrich and Andrew Mcgill write about Jerry Sandusky and his latest scandal. Jerry Sandusky is the former football assistant coach to Joe Paterno. Jerry Sandusky is being charged for rape and 40 counts of sexual abuse of children and can be bailed out for $100,000. Sandusky, Paterno, and Mike Mcqueary, also a former Penn State assistant coach got fired for not doing anything about it. Mcqueary said that in 2002, he caught Sandusky in a shower with a TEN YEAR OLD and said that the kid was "being subjected to anal intercourse". The only problem was he didn't go directly to the police when he saw this happen. So far he has been criticized to the extreme, and not in a good way at all. Mcqueary left immediately after seeing Sandusky in the shower and was "distraught" and called his father, according to the presentment, his father told him to leave the building and go to this house.

I think that this is all just disgusting. Jerry Sandusky is one of the most known college football coaches around and to hear about this is sickening.  I don't think that Paterno should have been fired because he didn't know of anything going on at the time. I agree on how the other assistant coach was fired, he knew about it almost the whole time and never told the police about it. He did tell the athletic director but that doesn't cut it. I think that it is so gross that such an old man would do that to little boys. I think its kind of funny because in a later interview Sandusky said that he never touched the boys but he did "touch their legs, but never in a sexual way." That makes no sense at all!

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Blog # 10

In the article "A Generation of Bigots Comes of Age," author Richard Cohen talks about how the younger generation has turned into a generation of bigots. If a person thinks about the United States as a country, typically it is found that the more schooling a person has, the more likely they will be more tolerant. So for that reason, older people who should have the most education, would be the most tolerant age group. But according to a survey done by the Anti-Defamation League, this is no longer true. "For instance, when white people were asked if blacks prefer to remain on welfare rather than work, 42 percent of the respondents 50 years old or older said the statement was 'probably true.' Predictably, the figure plummeted to 29 percent for those 30 to 49. but then it jumped to 36 percent for respondents under 30." About 68 percent of the younger respondents said that blacks "complain too much about racism," and 63 percent said that blacks "stick together more than others." for both of those statements, the younger age group agreed more than any other age group. A reason for all of this is plain and clear; the younger age group is ignorant of recent American history. Most kids these days know nothing of the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 60s.

I agree that the youngest age group is the most tolerant because we have learned that everyone is equal. I think that in the south, racism happens a lot more than in the north. But overall it happens everywhere all over the world. It happens with every race also.