The topic for this first blog post ended up finding me, rather than the other way around. I found this article on Facebook. It concerns several polls about race in America, and discusses how the results have changed over the last few years.

Basically, the results can be summed up by saying that more people are noticing the issue of race in this country. While there are more non-white Americans than white Americans who would say race is a major issue, the number of whites who acknowledge the problem is higher now than it was a few years ago. One can assume that all the police shootings - and the protests conducted in response - helped bring this issue back to the forefront.

The article also brings up other issues, such as the removal of the Confederate flag from state grounds in South Carolina, and the wealth gap between blacks and whites. All of this is relevant to the nature of our class, and I feel like this would be a good way to start things off as far as my blog is concerned.