Resonse to "On Being A Mexican American"

Joe I. Mendoza is a Mexican American and he feels as if he has drifted away from his Mexican Culture since he started living among more European American people. He was not just removed from his culture, but he was forced to do it in order to try to become someone in life. He mentions lots of stories of how he used to be part of a group of Mexicans and how he had to move and change his ways. He also mentions one of the most segregated things I have hear, where as there was an actual line on the ground that he could not cross. Then he realized he was treated differently, but did not seem to bother him much.
He seemed to be very close to his grandmother and he tells us a story of him standing up for himself because of what he thought he was forced to do was unfair. He stood up to his grandmother and he was not able to win the arguments even if it meant running away. He was "beaten" by his grandma for not wanting to do the work. He had decided that he needed to do that in order to be a man.
He was involved in many other things in his life that made him change like the Army and going to school was the biggest part. He omce went back to a get together and when he tried to shake hands with an old friend he was not able to get the hand shake right. Usually that hand shake was natural but to him it was no more. I guess he had forgotten the small things that helped him in being a Mexican and was more of an American after.

King Still King?

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great man with an intelligence that far exceeded others. He knew exactly what moves to do that were always legal. The laws said things about what colored people could not do, but even the greatest American leaders throughout time have said it themselves; All men are equal.
King is still King today because he is alive in lots of colored people and without him many of them would have been to afraid to do anything. Obama shows us a great accomplishment of what MLK did in order to change the ways of the government. In less than three centuries slavery was abolished and in less than one century was a colored man elected as leader of the white men.
MLK is here because we still remind of ourselves us his birthday, his death, his great movements, and he is a very big part of African American History Month. I am no only thankful for him making us have one less day of school, but that I am allowed to be at school with colored people.
There is no difference between people just because of the way they look. All humans go through similar things in life(in America). MLK made a difference that is as big as anything any other person in America has ever done.

Response to "The Sacred Soil" by Chief Seattle

In this narrative the author is telling how he feels about the White Men and his people. He also mentions plenty about God and that our God hates and does not protect his people. I guess it is because all these bad things that have happened to his people throughout history and because they are treated differently among us.
Seattle says that our beliefs and what we do in life about death and of those dead is wrong. That we forget our ancestry and that we do not prepare for the transition of worlds. In our lives we do lots of bad and offending things that would not allow us to change worlds. I think he is for the most part right, but he seems to put all of us as one, but we are not all bad.
God is loving and loves all, but he does not seem to believe that. Seattle also makes a big deal of the Big Chief of Washington, pretty sure it is the president, and how he controls us and them by putting them in a reservation. His tribes are much less than before and for that reason he thinks that God and the Big Chief of Washington do not care of his people because we are more.
Seattle speaks of Death as if it did not exist. He says that there is just a change in worlds and that his people respect and remember their past more than us(true). He also mentions that the dead are not powerless and I agree with him because one's life can cause great change after he is dead. I thought Seattle was an interesting author and he seems to know what he is talking about when he speaks of afterlife and death, but he is wrong about God and all Americans.