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March 9, 2019 at 10:55 pm #4726Gary LuParticipant
This song is called If I Ruled the World. I only recently found this song but I found it jarring because of its lyrics. Usually when I listen to music, I pay less attention to the deeper meanings behind the song and focus more on the rhythm and vibe. However, since I knew what to look for in this song, I really felt it. The lyrics coalesces with the melody and creates a dark mood because I know some of the lyrics are simply reality. I can really connect this to the themes from the movie Blindspotting. Especially with the line “If I ruled the World”, which is open to many interpretations, but serves to to underscore the helplessness of Miles. Miles at the end of the film confronts the cop that killed a black man and in that moment, he had control over that man’s life but choose not to take it away like society had.
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March 3, 2019 at 2:05 pm #4578Gary LuParticipant
I’ll decided to connect this image of the 116th congress to our topic of white space. As this country transitions from a historically white space to one that is more ethnically diverse, the change can be seen among people who represents us as in a photo of the 116th congress. Not only were people with other backgrounds elected to office, like llhan Omar, a Somali-American, more women were also elected. In conjunction with the new congress, Nancy Pelosi once again became the speaker and still is the only women to do so.
source: CNN Getty images
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February 23, 2019 at 8:43 pm #4258Gary LuParticipant
I found a cartoon that illustrates how the United States have treated Native Americans historically. The content of the cartoon itself shows a news reporter, which represents the whole country, solely interviewing a man, presumably American, and asking him why he doesn’t want national monuments. It is important to take note that the interviewer refers to the man as a “local”, which provides a sharp contrast to the Native Americans on the right who in their own history, native inhabitants of the Americas. A large sign held by one of the natives is a glaring call for recognition, a comical gesture towards overall American’s continued ignorant of Native American lands and identity.
Personally, I feel that acknowledgement of not just the presence of Native Americans but also their history is the first step to settle the wrongdoings by the United States and move forward in this issue. Source: Pat Bagley, comic, 12-5-17, from Cagle Cartoons.
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February 17, 2019 at 10:42 pm #4202Gary LuParticipant
This image shows data released by the FBI on people killed by the police by race. Here, it shows that although 13% of the U.S. population is black, 31% of people that are killed by the police are black. Take note that these statistics are from 2012 and not data from decades ago. This revelation that the police have killed a disproportionate amount of black people connects to the number of blacks in prisons. It is a fact that there is more blacks in prison then compared to other races. The cause of this might be a police prejudice towards blacks more than any other group. Convicted felons lose their right to vote among other opportunities and creates a lower class in society. Police data such as this image reveals a radicalized America.
Image found by Dara Lind (dara@vox.com), sourced from FBI data.
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February 10, 2019 at 3:10 am #3842Gary LuParticipant
This picture is of a classroom of an Afrocentric school. An Afrocentric school is a school that focuses on black culture in learning. These schools, which are staffed prominently by people of color, are an alternative to school integration. Schools, such as those in New York, have gradually become increasingly segregated; and while black parents are uncertain to whether or not they should enroll their children in white schools, others have agreed that segregation an answer. By sending their children to Afrocentric schools, children of color experience a different education atmosphere than those who integrate into “white” schools- a matter of race and character.
picture source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/nyregion/afrocentric-schools-segregation-brooklyn.html
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February 3, 2019 at 2:40 am #3649Gary LuParticipant
For this week’s segregation theme, I choose a picture of a black women and presumably with her child who holds a newspaper. The top headline of the newspaper, High Court Bans Segregation in Public Schools is as important as the photo itself. The verdict of Brown versus Board of Education is an important event in U.S. history, desegregating a sector in America and paving a road for equality. Although schools were now prohibited from refusing blacks, there were still people opposed to desegregated schools. This picture, which dates in 1954, puts into perspective the racial inequality that existed in the United States.
Image found on https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_brown.html
The website also links to a source.
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January 27, 2019 at 1:19 pm #3461Gary LuParticipant
These images was chosen from Us News’ education website. The school data depicted in the images are George Washington High School (GWHS) and Mission High School (MHS) in San Francisco, California, the former which I had attended. Although both schools were in the same school district, the demographics were drastically different. My high school composed an Asian population of 67% while Mission High School had a 50% Hispanic majority (data from 2015-2016 school year). Based on my personal experience, GWHS was a nicer school than MHS. My school was well furnished, clean, and had adequate and experienced teachers. This was not the case for MHS. An important note is that while GWHS was located in one of the most prosperous neighborhoods in San Francisco, MHS was in one of the poorest, where a stigma on Blacks and Hispanics exist. Throughout my high school years, whenever MHS was brought up in a conversation, it would only be mocked as an impoverished school filled with colored people. The demographics of both schools is an result of segregation not just by class but by race.
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January 21, 2019 at 4:47 pm #3328Gary LuParticipant
The attached photo is a portrait of former president, Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States. Barack Obama’s presidency represents generations of suffrage and activism from the fourteen amendment to the civil rights movement; and to this current day. Reflecting on Barack Obama’s Presidential victory, I would say that I admired him firstly, because he was the first black man to become the President of the United States, which is a great achievement. I know that Barack Obama supported black people, people of color, immigrants, and women, but one notable example of change under his administration came in June of 2015 when same-sex marriage was legalized in the United States.
Image taken on December 6, 2012 by Pete Souza, former Chief Official White House Photographer
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