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March 10, 2019 at 12:26 pm #4754Julian MercadoParticipant
In relation to this week’s topic, I have decided to share this picture that illustrates the stark presences of gentrification in a community in Philadelphia. The effects of gentrification creates conditions where long term residents in the community are left to struggle. It makes once affordable neighborhoods to low-income residents, unaffordable and forces them to move out. Although gentrification can bring multiple new benefits and resources to a community, previous existing residents never benefit from these, explained Gilberto Gonzalez, who is a resident in this community. Gentrification brings in a new culture into the neighborhood, which is not usually welcomed by existing residents and it tends to transform the demographics of the neighborhood form low to higher income residents by inflating property values.
Source: the Philadelphia Tribune
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February 23, 2019 at 9:44 pm #4262Julian MercadoParticipant
For this weeks image share, I have attached a chart that shows the statistics on the demographics of those who take part in outdoor activities. The graphic illustrates that outdoor activities see the greatest participation by whites and low participation by all minority groups. This graphic relates to our in-class conversation on how national parks and outdoor activities aren’t that accessible as society attempts to make them sound nor do all demographic groups express the same interest in participating in such activities.
Source: The New Republic
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February 17, 2019 at 12:51 pm #4106Julian MercadoParticipant
Relating to this weeks topic of Mass incarceration and the making of a racial under-caste, I have shared a picture of the metropolitan detention center (MDC) in Brooklyn New York, who has recently undergone intense public backlash after it was discovered that inmates were left without heat and warm water during freezing condition. The prisoners protested these conditions by banging flashlights on the prison windows as family members and supporters to improve inmate conditions rallied outside. The MDC reports that there was a fire in the electrical room that caused parts of the prison to loose power resulting in the failure of heating systems during the winter. Inmates, who were only in short-sleeved prison uniforms, were left in the cold condition for numerous days. Attorney General of New York Letitia James explained the conditions as “unacceptable, illegal, and inhuman to detain people without basic amenities”. It has been reported that in regards to repairing the electrical system and getting the heat back on there was a complete lack of urgency on behalf of prison administration. This relates to our conversation in class of how there is a dehumanization of prisoners within our justice system, where its held out of sight, out of mind, and are juxtaposed as inferior to everyone else in society and disenfranchised of their rights. Whereas in reality, these are everyday people just like us, where some of the inmates are inside for non-violent offenses and are victims of a broken justice system who deserve the same rights to which all humans should have.
Source: New York Times
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February 10, 2019 at 12:14 pm #3870Julian MercadoParticipant
For this weeks topic of segregation and education, I have shared an interactive map created by NPR using data from Education Week and the U.S. Census Bureau to reveal the average funding per student based upon their geographical location. What this map reveals is that the Rancho Santee Fe School district, based upon their location and funding, were able to spend on average $14,874 per student. This is a stark contrast to the funding students received in the Santee School district where the average funding per student was $7,801. The students in the Santee School district received almost half of the funding than those in the Rancho Santee Fe school district. Additionally, the Santee School District enrolls around 50% more minority students than Rancho Santa Fe does. Relating this to the Nikole Hannah-Jones reading when choosing a school to send your child to based upon “what’s better” its almost always interconnected with race, as schools with higher test scores, usually have more funding due to a wealthier surrounding area, and in turn a lower minority student enrollment rate as presented by the data above.
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Map – https://www.npr.org/2016/04/18/474256366/why-americas-schools-have-a-money-problem
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February 3, 2019 at 4:41 pm #3731Julian MercadoParticipant
For this weeks photo share, I have attached this cartoon from the Washington post which depicts a white man telling a black man and his son, “ Pray keeping moving, Brother” in front of a church. This photo illustrates the irony of segregation at a place that preaches to welcome all and promotes in a sign in the front of the church “ The brother Hood of Man” while denying a black man and his son access to a place of worship. Their actions directly contradict what they promote to be, to say there is a brotherhood of man, that all men are created equal, and then enact segregationist policies at a holy institution. This relates to our weeks theme of segregation in class as Baldwin turned to a church to find an escape from the dehumanization of a segregated society to only discover it was still present within the church despite their gospel, which sent the view that white supremacy was ordained by God in Christianity and prompted him to look elsewhere for acceptance leading him to the Nation of Islam.
Source: Washington Post 1960
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January 27, 2019 at 3:13 pm #3490Julian MercadoParticipant
Last year around July a community in Scottsdale Arizona came under scrutiny for selectively enforcing HOA policies to their residents of color. Resident Sean Bandawat explains he received a notice from his neighborhood HOA to install a wrought-iron gate outside his house or be fined $2,500, while multiple properties on the block had no such gate nor received such a notice. Bandawat’s attorney claims he was targeted for being black and an ethnic minority in the community, whereas the other residents on the block were white. He argued the policies were being racially enforced to deter him from wanting to stay in the area. This directly ties back to our theme this week of how segregation has taken other forms using more civilized tactics to restrict minorities from residing in certain communities, such as enforcing and creating absurd HOA policies.
source: AZ central (USA Today network)
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January 19, 2019 at 6:53 pm #3166Julian MercadoParticipant
The image below is a screenshot from a video posted by the Orlando police department from a body cam on a police officer as he pulls over a black woman for no apparent reason. The stop ends quickly as she informs them that she is the State Attorney and questions their grounds for performing the stop, where the officers fail to provide any legitimate reasoning. The officers had no grounds for the stop sparking allegations that racial profiling was used in the officer’s decision to perform the traffic stop. By the stopping of Ms. Ayala, it was an indication that the officers felt suspicious of her presence within the area. This relates to the theme of this week by illustrating how we define space and who should and should not have access to it.
Source: Orlando Police Department 2017- This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Julian Mercado.
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