The Real Space Traders

Not to be rude, but there was a student in class today who tried to argue that Bell’s story was not only bad literature, but was implausible. To be perfectly honest, I think that was rather ignorant of him to say so and it is that type of ignorance that does put our country in jeopardy of just that kind of attack. And although I don’t really believe that aliens are going to land on Earth anytime soon, we are selling out other races everyday for our profit.

To be honest, I see this happening most predominately with the Hispanic population. Everyday, thousands of immigrants (both legal and illegal), wake up in disgusting shacks, and go out to work the land for minimal (at best pay). Yes, many chose to work on the land, but we should also have the option of treating them better. This country is also constantly outsourcing to third world countries, in order to make their profit margins larger.

And then with other colored populations (mainly black, Hispanic, and Native American)—they are being exploited through a lack of education. For an example, I went to school in Phoenix, not exactly an inner-city school, but a school with a 90% Hispanic population. And low-and-behold, most the teachers there were indeed white, except for the principal who was Hispanic. Within my first week of school, my mother met with the principal to complain about the lack of respect my second grade teacher was showing both to the students and to the parents. My mother had gone to the parent-teacher night, and was appalled at the way the parents were treated by the teacher. The teacher showed up in sweats and only talked with the parents for about five minutes before dismissing them. My mother said that when she tried to talk with the teacher after the short meeting, my teacher responded rudely and said that she did not have time to my mother. The principal responded frankly to this story: she said that most teachers do not have time for Hispanic students. The principal said that she would talk to the teacher, but nothing really ever improved. The teacher continued to be disrespectful to the students and teachers. She said the only thing that she was really going to teach us was how to behave, because it is all we really needed to know. So why wasn’t this teacher fired… because there was no one else readily willing to take her place. Furthermore, this was also a school where most students where about 25% of students were apart of a gang by the sixth grade.

This is obviously just one experience. But one experience too many. Every child should have a right to an education. My second grade teacher believed all we needed to know was how to behave, after all what was a Hispanic kid going to do with math? Now that I am older, I realize that the problem with my second grade teacher was simple: she was a flat out racist. She believed that children of color did not deserve the same education as white students. To wrap up, we are selling out colored people right now. And we are doing that by not giving them the same chance to learn as we are white students. And people need to realize this before we really do sell off a whole population for the gain of white people.