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March 10, 2019 at 3:29 pm #4791KARLA CORONA ROMEROParticipant
You don’t know what it’s like to be in a frying pot
You don’t know what it’s like to mind your business
And get stopped by the cops and not know if you ’bout to die or not
You worry ’bout your life, so you take mine
I love you but I fuckin’ hate you at the same time
I wish we could trade shoes or we could change lives
So we could understand each other more but that’d take time
I’m not racist
It’s like we livin’ in the same buildin’ but splittin’ the both sides
I’m not racist
But there’s two sides to every story and now you know mineFor this week’s photo share I used a screenshot from a music video called “I’m Not Racist” by Joyner Lucas. The lyrics above are a little bit of the song and it shows how there are two sides in the conversation happening through the song. The purpose of the song is to show two points of views, one being a white man and the other a black man. The first part of the song is based on the white man’s words and the way he feels toward black folks, and the second part of the song i the black man’s response. I had seen this video when it first came out and when it was everywhere. The video is pretty straightforward with what the purpose of it is. It shows the two sides of this prevalent conflict in our society and gives a solution to the problem. To the rapper, people need to listen to both sides and make amends. The video was criticized because of this. At the end of the video it shows both men hugging as their way of coming to an understanding of each other, but people were staying things don’t work that way. Because of the history and all the oppression black folks went through, there is no way to make up for it with a hug. Regardless of the criticism, I thought the song had a very impactful message.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43gm3CJePn0
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March 2, 2019 at 3:39 pm #4493KARLA CORONA ROMEROParticipant
For this week’s photo share I decided to use this screenshot of a video. This video I had seen before and although it may seem a little aggressive, it addresses an issue that to me is very important and connects to our topic of white space. The video comments on the incidents that have happened to many people who are told to speak English while they are heard speaking their native tongue, the most common one being Spanish. The video comments on many videos that have surfaced on the internet of people recording other people, mainly white, demanding that English be spoken. One of the videos being the one with Aaron Schlossberg complaining to a manager because the workers were speaking Spanish. Another one that was mentioned was the one about the teacher that was telling her students to speak American and that troops are not fighting for their right to speak Spanish. These types of incidents keep happening more frequently, especially after Trump became president. This problem hits home because Spanish was my first language and I’ve had experiences with people making comments about my parents speaking Spanish or not being able to speak fluent English. In a white space one of the “requirements” is being able to speak English or as others may say speaking “American”. Many of the people demanding that English be spoken tend to have the presumption that English is the official language of the United States, which is not true, and feel threatened and uncomfortable when they hear something other than their language, driving them to make racist comments or harassing people and telling them to go back to where they came from.
Even though this video mainly focuses on the Spanish language, it’s a video that I wish everyone could see because it talks about an issue that many people face everyday and it’s something that needs to be changed.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv1sMIOsXtM
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February 24, 2019 at 3:53 pm #4364KARLA CORONA ROMEROParticipant
For this week I decided to share some statistics that I saw on an article about diversity in visitors at national parks. It was mentioned in class how many of the people that visit these landmarks tend to be white, whereas we see less minorities visiting these areas. National parks have a great history of racism, which could be the reason for these statistics as well as the fact that it takes time and money for trips to these areas, which a lot of minorities don’t have. It’s very interesting to see these numbers and comparing each year since I would have thought they’d be greater.
picture: Department of the Interior
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February 17, 2019 at 12:28 am #4081KARLA CORONA ROMEROParticipant
For this photo share I decided to share these pictures since I found them very powerful. This week our topic touched up on incarceration, and more specifically, it was mentioned how many people are put in jail do to what one may consider smaller offenses. It was mentioned that people would see a college kid doing drugs and consider them young and stupid because of the setting they are at, or even celebrities who tend to be disregarded and laughed at for drug possession. The story completely changes when the person with the drugs is of a minority group and is put out in the streets, it is then when people see it as a crime. The statistics shown on these pictures are crazy to me, knowing that this country puts more importance on prisons than on the education of their people. It’s even crazier to think that it costs way more to keep an inmate than it costs to educate a student. Knowing this, one would think the government would rather fund more schools yet the reality is that they would rather keep people locked up than providing more opportunities in education that could potentially help avoid future incarcerations.
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Photo by: Harold Lee Rush
Graphic by: Tal Yellin / CNNMoney
sources: https://imgur.com/gallery/0cZRXK8
https://money.cnn.com/infographic/economy/education-vs-prison-costs/
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February 17, 2019 at 12:04 am #4078KARLA CORONA ROMEROParticipant
For this photo share I wanted to share these pictures which I thought were very powerful. We mentioned how much importance and money this country puts into its prisons and this picture clearly resembles that through its statistics. We talked about how there are so many people put in jail for drug possession, more specifically weed, who tend to be people of color as compared to other people like celebrities who get away with it and are just disregarded. It’s crazy to think that someone can think of a college kid doing drugs as young and stupid, but when it’s someone from a minority group out on a street they suddenly see it as a crime. It’s even more crazy to me that they put more importance on incarcerating people than in education. The people committing these crimes tend to go toward that path because they lack opportunities to better themselves and tend to find an easy way to be able to survive. These things can be avoided if college was an option for these people and if there was enough funding for such opportunities. Even just looking at the cost to educate a student compared to the cost for keeping an inmate is insane. The difference is incredible high and knowing that, one would think the emphasis would be on the students when in reality it seems that keeping people locked up is more important than educating the youth to further avoid future incarcerations.
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Photo by: Harold Lee Rush
Graphic: <span class=”right”>Tal Yellin / CNNMoney </span>
sources: https://imgur.com/gallery/0cZRXK8
https://money.cnn.com/infographic/economy/education-vs-prison-costs/
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February 9, 2019 at 11:07 pm #3829KARLA CORONA ROMEROParticipant
This picture shows a 6 year old kid named CJ and his father. CJ was refused entry into Book’s Christian Academy on the very first day of school due to his hair. The school had certain policies that did not allow boys to have long hair and apparently CJ’s hair violated that. After the incident his father wanted to take action against the school. His dad mentions how the school is predominantly black with an all-white staff and doesn’t understand how they can shame something that is so closely related to Black identity. He expresses how unfair it is for the school to take taxpayer dollars and still singling out and shaming Black natural hair.
Something that I find very interesting is that many of the schools that are heard about for doing these things tend to be Christian schools, which reminds me of Baldwin and the reason he stepped away from the church.
Source: https://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/race-and-inequality-education/my-black-son-was-sent-home-first-grade-because-his
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February 2, 2019 at 2:04 pm #3598KARLA CORONA ROMEROParticipant
This week we mentioned hallmarks of American citizenship, one of them being voting. I was looking through instagram and found this picture that was reposted by an account that I really like which is brownissues. According to the description, about 6.1 million Americans are not allowed to vote due to felony disenfranchisement or due to laws which restrict voting rights to people convicted of felony-level crimes. In 1976 there were about 1.17 million disenfranchised individuals which increased to about 6.1 million in 2016, many of them being black and brown people.
source: rockthevote (instagram)
illustrator: raafaye (instagram)
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January 26, 2019 at 3:21 pm #3383KARLA CORONA ROMEROParticipant
This is an image from the July 14-21 issue of The Saturday Evening Post from 1962. The newspaper add is a representation of blockbusting that was used by real estate speculators as a strategy to buy homes for a cheaper price from whites while exploiting blacks. Because white neighborhoods wanted to stay white, the thought of having a black family living around them is enough to be prone to manipulation by these agents. The agents strategically sell houses to black families in prominently white neighborhoods as means to scare the white folks living there and convince them to sell their houses for a lower price. The ad itself was published by Alfred Balk as a way to expose the “blockbusting” that was being exploited in Chicago.
Source: http://publications.newberry.org/digital_exhibitions/exhibits/show/civil-war-to-civil-rights/segregated-chicago/contract-buying-blockbusting
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January 19, 2019 at 10:38 am #3135KARLA CORONA ROMEROParticipant
This week we touched up on borders and Native American land. This is a picture of an app that was created by Victor Temprano, which shows real land in North America and Australia and who it originally belonged to before it was stolen. Rather than using artificial borders, the map bases the separations of these groups by natural borders, some tribal groups even overlapping. The app also provides features that help the user categorize the land by language and even by the treaties that shifted power to the colonizers. I think this app is something that can be useful for many people, specially in present time. I think learning about the history behind the land one resides is important to recognize and respect the fact that the land was stolen ruthlessly from indigenous people.
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