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March 9, 2019 at 2:23 pm #4699CHUN-CHIN YUParticipant
I selected a picture from an article i read online. The woman in the picture is Tonya, she was pepper sprayed by the police in the picture.
Source: https://www.wlrn.org/post/standing-rock-resistance-unprecedented-its-also-centuries-oldReflecting back to discussion in class, i remember we talked about a list the indigenous people had.”we are protector (crossed off protester)” this line stood out to me as if it showed another from of self-defense. It was interesting to see that this article seems to be justifying police actions almost violence by addressing the indigenous people as the protester in the Dakota pipeline construction. Not to say that this whole article is against the indigenous people, but it shows how the literary meaning behind a word have lots of influence. Because people perceived indigenous peoples’s behavior/action as protesters, the police and social media can now act accordingly. It is also interesting to see how the article talk about the contradictory idea, that this event has been happening for 100 years yet it seems new to the people like they’ve never seen it before.
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March 3, 2019 at 10:52 am #4541CHUN-CHIN YUParticipant
For this week, I want to talk about #Me Too movement. In lecture, i learned that the movement is about having women speak up for themselves, particularly those who suffered sexual assault, but why now?. I found this article online explaining why didn’t speak up earlier when it happened. The article shared that there were some sexual assault cases that weren’t taken seriously when filed to police department. Also, many sexual assault incidence involved the victim’s, usually woman, career. It is obvious that women wouldn’t speak about it then since individual problem isn’t always the best interest on social media, or people in general in my opinion. It may be true that it wasn’t until the #Me Too movement that made people take women’s problems more seriously but does this mean every time when women faces another conflict, they have to wait for the right moment to speak? or wait for some one who matters more on social media to experience the very same as they talk about it?
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February 23, 2019 at 11:51 am #4239CHUN-CHIN YUParticipant
For this week’s theme, I chose a picture from William Royster’s protest in 2014.
The protest in 2014 is a reaction to the death of unarmed civilians, killed by two police officers. Michael Brown was shot to death and Eric Garner died in hospital, heart attack, due to a police choke-hold. The article talks about the debate of police using deadly force and justice. I chose this picture because, to me, it shows how Black people can only say Black lives matter and not say or do other things because their behavior could easily jeopardize the society’s view on them. To me, the scariest thing isn’t the police brutality, but people’s views and mass media misinterpretation on Black civilians. If there wasn’t a misunderstanding none of this would’ve happened, but it did. The tape on William’s mouth had “Black lives matter” written on it, I see this as his method to show Black lives matter without saying it. An attempt, trying to make people realize Black people shouldn’t have to say black lives matter for other people to know Lives matter, and in this particular event Black lives matters too.
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https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/crime/2014/12/14/delaware-reviews-police-deadly-force-debated/20395615/
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February 15, 2019 at 4:08 pm #4043CHUN-CHIN YUParticipant
I found this picture in someone’s blog/website called “Faith&Coffee Blog” with Eric Ledermann.
In class discussions, I heard a lot about mistreatment towards someone before even knowing them and the conflict of racial identity of an individual being generalized to represent the whole racial population. But, I was wondering what will be the circumstance if an individual is multi-cultural or mixed. We talked about how officials and media treat people of color very differently compared to whites. This blog is written by a white man sharing his awareness of this “white privilege” as normalization and other races being the opposite throughout history. He then talked about his mixed children, asking them how would they identify themselves, “half Chinese and half regular…” This was their view on themselves but it scares me thinking about how would other people see mixed racial identity making different assumptions before knowing the person. Thus, connecting to reasons behind advocating for ethnic studies, To me at least, it is obvious majority of the mixed racial groups would also advocate for a ethnic studies class. Not just so they can understand it but also being able to address/share them to other people, whether its ideas, histories, reasons behind conflicts in histories and such…etc.
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February 7, 2019 at 6:53 pm #3785CHUN-CHIN YUParticipant
For the theme: The afterlife civil rights movement, The Hip Hop generation, I found a book by Todd Boyd called “The death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop” written in August, 2004.
Todd’s perspective on hip hop being the efficient way of advancing current civil rights movement suggest a transition in getting the message out there. Todd relates hip hop culture’s message to Martin Luther King Jr’s peace speech, in which, he says hip hop’s message is better than King’s. Todd argued that things changes through time, the struggles and politics are very different now and the 1960’s perspective is not so relevant to today’s event. Todd wasn’t trying to reject Martin Luther King Jr’s message, Todd was trying to say King’s message and politics are very specific in his times. Now, things are different after the civil rights era, and only the people/generation after the era would understand people’s struggle today. Todd believes Hip hop is one of the way for the current generation to understand/spread their message about relevant events and ideals. All of which gives me the idea and another perspective towards Hip hop being the next form of civil rights movement.
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February 1, 2019 at 4:19 pm #3583CHUN-CHIN YUParticipant
Source: https://myhero.com/grace_lee_boggs_shetterly_2011
Image: Grace Lee Boggs
Artist:Robert Shetterly
Grace Lee Boggs’s quote in the painting says: “People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in the human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values.”
For this week’s theme, i wanted to look at how other activists develop their philosophy, how they end up being an activist and their perspectives on the issues around their environment. Grace Lee Boggs was a social activist, author, philosopher and feminist. This quote by Grace Lee reminds me of the conflict in the Aoki documentary assigned that week. Many people realizes something isn’t right in the society, but not many people is willing to step out to try to change it or advocate for a change. This kind of situation happens everyday, because people don’t know what will be the consequence of their actions. What if things gets worse because i tried to change it? What if nothing changes? But what if doesn’t gets worse, What if things does change? Grace Lee pointed out that people doesn’t stand up for themselves and other people could be because they don’t have a clear goal or just didn’t realize it. To me, this quote focused on the point that in the end we are all human living on the same planet, we must settle the dispute within ourselves so people can coexists. Race and differences between individuals are not the only cause of disputes that needs to be changed but the environment and people themselves (bystanders, persecutors). And we can achieve such “peace” by recognizing we are capable of changing people’s thoughts and transform it into action to execute change.
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January 25, 2019 at 1:18 pm #3353CHUN-CHIN YUParticipant
This is a picture of Bob Dylan singing “Only a Pawn in their Game” in Greenwood Mississippi July 2, 1963. (source: https://www.pophistorydig.com/topics/dylan-only-a-pawn/)
Bob Dylan is famous for his protest songs and his style of music in the folk music community. This song talks about the bigger issue beyond the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. When I think about this week’s theme, Beyond civil rights movement, what came to my mind was the thought of numerous causes and effects leading up to the civil rights movement era and what is beyond of that cause. I chose this song by Bob Dylan because there was an interview about this song just few months after his performance where historian, Sean Wilentz explained that the song was about Medgar’s murder, but Bob Dylan was also addressing a bigger issue on the cause of this murder. That the environment shaped the murderer into a killer. To me, this song is expressing an environment in need to change, and such environment of racism and segregation is creating a problem beyond the cause of civil rights movement.
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January 16, 2019 at 4:05 pm #3076CHUN-CHIN YUParticipant
The image I selected for week 2’s theme is a quote in a book called “The Cost of Discipleship” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in 1937. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German theologian and an anti-Nazi dissident. I felt this image or this particular quote is relevant to this week’s theme because of the reoccurring motif of silence, and because i feel Dietrich is a lot like MLK. Worlds apart, MLK and Dietrich both shared similar experiences as they stood up for a group of people and fought against their country’s brutality. For example, Dietrich was also imprisoned for his opposition against nazi. Like MLK, he also participated in writing letters to express his participation in resistance movement. On the other hand, regarding to this particular quote in this image, it reminded me of the motif on time, regarding the past readings of MLK. Dietrich had other quotes about time in his other writings, telling us just how important time is. However, this quote in particular shows how Dietrich Bonhoeffer had a sense of urgency, like MLK, demanding action. (Edited-ignore the first quote/image – misattributed)
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