Response to Carlos Mencia

I don't take any of the things that Carlos Mencia said as offensive. Everyone says these things, but Carlos just says it publicly. I would take it offensively if he didn't speak about as his own heritage in a negative manner. He speaks about every heritage, race, or gender. He speaks equally about everyone. He called whites "trailer trash" and Hispanics (him being one) "spic's."
But I am going to have to disagree on his view of lowering standards of education. It has become very difficult to keep up in school, let alone get into college. My parents tell me all the time how they wouldn't be able to handle my work load and how much more work we have to do than they did. I believe that some people have special circumstances in their learning abilities, some people are slower than others. Yes what Carlos Mencia does is comical but people might take it offensively. I enjoyed the first video Take a Joke America much more than the other one. It can be taken in different ways, Mencia's style, but he is a comedian that you either love or hate. You will either take his comedy as offensive or just laugh about what he says disregarding how it pertains to you.

The Media and it's influence

I don't watch the news and I try not to listen to what the media is saying because half of the time it is a twisted truth. They tell you what they want you to hear. They hold some truths from us and make us understand only what they want us to understand. For example, the on-going question in every Cubans mind is, "Is Castro dead?" This question has been pushed back and forth, in and out of the media.
There are then those people who live, breathe and eat the media. They are a walking, talking news headline. A prime example is my grandmother. She only talks about what she saw on univision today and about the killer in kansas. The media feeds her these stories that may or not be true but she believes all of it because it is the media, "the truth of our world today."

Miss Teen South Carolina

Everyone has those moments. Moments that you know what you want to say but have a hard time trying to get it out. Miss Teen South Carolina knew what to say but didn't know how to say it. She rambled from one end to the other but didn't focus at what she needed to say. Truthfully that has happened to me plenty of times, especially when I am asked a question and caught off guard. I just start rambling not really know what I am really saying but once I finish it all comes back to me and I know what to say but it is too late to say it. Sometimes I might begin to ramble and catch myself and try to redeem what I truly wanted to say. Everyone makes mistakes, especially teenagers, so I don't think that this mess-up was that great of a deal that the media is making it out to be.