Discourse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIVgMvuCM_k

From our reading on Wednesday in class, the book talks about discourse as a sort of "identity kit" that we go by. We can be associated with many discourses including gender, race, religious affliation, etc.
This is a show on ABC that I watch frequently. This video is about what people would do when they see kids vandalizing a car. At the end of the show, they announce that 9 more calls were made to 911 against the black boys than when the white boys were vandalizing the car. One woman said about the black boys, "how dare they come into our back yard". By this she was saying that "our back yard" was our white section of town like whites own it. Although I think that is a racist statement, it goes to show the difference in the way we associate ourselves with different discourses and how we react to people who aren't a part of that certain discourse-in this case, race.