Day 283: Nothing Special

 

October 10th, 2011Today was nothing special at all. I went to my 3-hour COGN150 class, went to my 50 minute POLI113A class, ate lunch alone at Panda Express, hung out in Geisel for 20 minutes, and then went to my 3-hour COMT100 class. I was tired, stressed, and overwhelmed with a headache. Tasks that need be done: DO my Cogn150 Final Project (Due in 8 weeks), and my Comt100 Project (Due in 2 weeks). Eek. I went to Geisel afterwards to wind down for a bit, before busing back home to Von’s on the Arriba. The driver was terrible and made my headache worse by driving recklessly. I got a ton of groceries at Von’s (30 dollars worth) before going home to do some homework. The only good part of my day? Getting Ron Paul stickers in the mail. I put one up on my United States map, the schedule on my door, the fridge in my kitchen, my backpack, as as pictured above, my HP laptop that’s really a Mac (in honor of Steve Jobs).

In the conclusion to an extremely embarrassing situation, President Dwight D. Eisenhower offers his apologies to Ghanian Finance Minister, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, who had been refused service at a restaurant in Dover, Delaware. It was one of the first of many such incidents in which African diplomats were confronted with racial segregation in the United States. While the matter might appear rather small relative to other events in the Cold War, the continued racial slights to African (and Asian) diplomats during the 1950s and 1960s were of utmost concern to U.S. officials. During those decades the United States and the Soviet Union were competing for the “hearts and minds” of hundreds of millions of people of color in Asia and Africa. UGH EVERY PRESIDENT AFTER KENNEDY WAS SO BAD…

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