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March 10, 2019 at 1:16 am #4741Gabrielle BlancoParticipant
For this week’s photo share, I chose a screenshot of the lyrics of “FOR MY PEOPLE” by Joey Bada$$. The song addresses the social and political struggles that Black people face on a daily basis and Joey, using his role, as an artist to fight for change for his people. Through his lyrics, Joey touches on police brutality, mass incarceration, and systemic institutional oppression which disproportionately affect Black people and have made it extremely difficult for them to “survive a world so lethal.” He also touches on the power of rap as a form of expression and uses it as a way to take action on the issues that he is passionate about.
Source: FOR MY PEOPLE by Joey Bada$$
Release Date: April 7, 2017
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March 3, 2019 at 2:35 pm #4581Gabrielle BlancoParticipant
For this week’s theme of white space, I have chosen a screenshot of a tweet that calls out another white woman calling the police on a black person for doing nothing wrong. This woman, referred to as Golfcart Gail, called 911 on a black father who was cheering for his son at his soccer game. She described him as aggressive, threatening and made her feel unsafe when all he did was tell his son to listen to the referee. The father was even willing to peacefully leave his own son’s game in order to avoid more conflict with Golfcart Gail but she still continued to harass him and claim that he is out of control. This is just another example of white people asserting white space, denying other’s ability to belong, and criminalizing non-white people.
Article Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/white-woman-dubbed-golfcart-gail-calls-police-black-father-soccer-n921121
Tweet Source: Ginger Galore Williams, Oct 2018
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February 23, 2019 at 9:07 pm #4260Gabrielle BlancoParticipant
I found this photo from an article about Southern Utah University’s Ancestral Lands Program, “a nonprofit conservation program that operates nationally in an effort to connect Native Americans with their ancestral lands.” This program, which is largely funded by the National Park Foundation, basically gave internships to Native American youth and had them work on projects in several different National Parks in order to give them an opportunity to connect with and provide stewardship over their ancestral homelands. One participant was even quoted saying “being Native American, I feel the Ancestral Lands grant program is important because it helps support the land our culture believes is scared.” Although this program seems to have good intentions, I found it very ironic that when the National Parks were first established, the government refused to recognize that these lands were not only inhabited but also sacred to Native Americans. It seems like they are trying to make up for it with this Ancestral Lands program.
Photo source: Southern Utah University, Cedar City News/St. George News
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February 16, 2019 at 3:12 pm #4060Gabrielle BlancoParticipant
This political cartoon represents the separate but equal drug sentencing laws that disproportionately affects people of color, especially black men. The article where I found this photo explains how people of color caught with small amounts of crack cocaine would receive the same sentences as white people caught with large amounts of powder cocaine (5 grams of crack carries a minimum of 5-year federal prison sentence, while 500 grams of powder cocaine carries the same 5-year sentence). This 100:1 disparity between crack and powder cocaine show no rational medical or penological reason, but instead causes an unjustified racial disparity. These unjust sentencing laws were justified because it kept “criminals” off the streets. They were made so that more people would have harsher sentences for nonviolent crimes, not be able to pay bail, and took away power from judges.
Source: https://theshortgirlwithablog.wordpress.com/2016/12/05/mivoz-blogs-mass-incarceration/
Date: Dec 5, 2016
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February 10, 2019 at 4:19 pm #3929Gabrielle BlancoParticipant
This image was taken at the Milwaukee Math and Science Academy, where more than 98 percent of the students are African-American and nearly all qualify for free or reduced price lunch. This depicts the racial isolation of charter school students, further proving that charter schools were among the most racially and economically segregated in the nation. The article states that “while only 4% of traditional public schools have student bodies that are 995 minority, 17% of charter schools are 99% minority.” This number continues to grow, resulting in charter schools being more racially isolated in nearly every state. Even with complaints of school resegregation, the charter school sector and their advocates justify this by saying that integration is not necessary for academic needs of children, a similar justification during the era of “separate but equal.”
Source: http://neatoday.org/2018/05/04/racial-segregation-in-charter-schools/
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February 3, 2019 at 4:21 pm #3718Gabrielle BlancoParticipant
This image shows Malcolm X standing behind a podium during a Black Muslim rally in New York City. He is holding up a newspaper with the headline “Our Freedom Can’t Wait.” This picture is significant because, as the second in command of the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X led his people to fight for their freedom and call for a separate nation instead of integrating with white people in America.
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January 27, 2019 at 1:29 am #3421Gabrielle BlancoParticipant
This cartoon represents the extreme residential segregation that the residents of Flint, Michigan are still facing. Flint, being a city of mostly people of color living under the poverty line, lacked the access to high-quality public goods and services even before the water crisis. When residents started complaining about the contaminated water in 2014, it took nearly a year for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to document the problem and another 18 months to work on it. To this day, the water of Flint is still contaminated with lead while the neighboring white towns are able to provide clean water to its residents. If Flint had been mostly white and wealthy, the government would not have let it get this bad.
photo source: https://blackmattersus.com/11938-life-of-black-community-then-vs-now/
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