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LOYD-MICHAEL SULLIVAN replied to the topic Week 9 photo share in the forum Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 4 months ago
In past discussion a lot of people posted about Colin Kaepernick and his protest of racial injustices in the United States by choosing to sit or kneel during the playing of the National Anthem during NFL games. This week’s topic of lyrical representations of segregation gives a great opportunity to address not only his protest but the song d…[Read more]
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LOYD-MICHAEL SULLIVAN replied to the topic Week 8 photo share in the forum Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 4 months ago
For this week’s theme on white spaces I chose to share an interesting chart I found. The chart was created by Dr Anne Milne, a New Zealand educator, activist, and lecturer. She produced and used the chart to demonstrate different white spaces within the New Zealand education system to workshop members. While this chart is directed toward the wh…[Read more]
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LOYD-MICHAEL SULLIVAN replied to the topic Week 7 photo share in the forum Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 5 months ago
Concerning native exclusion and the making of “America’s Best Idea”, I decided to share a photo from the article, “From Yosemite to Bears Ears, Erasing Native Americans From U.S. National Parks.” The article itself is very interesting and outlines the systematic mistreatment and role of indigenous people in relation to the National Parks Syst…[Read more]
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LOYD-MICHAEL SULLIVAN replied to the topic Week 6 photo share in the forum Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 5 months ago
I decided to share a still from the movie The Shawshank Redemption. Most people have seen this movie and I think it is representative of a larger trend in the cinematic and television portrayal of prisons and prisoners. In class we discussed our societal views regarding criminality and sin. Specifically, the idea was raised that we tend to form a…[Read more]
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LOYD-MICHAEL SULLIVAN replied to the topic Week 4 photo share in the forum Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 5 months ago
For this week’s continued discussion on segregation I decided to post up this picture which includes two very interesting statements made my Milton Friedman. Friedman is a famed economist that won the 1976 Nobel Prize in economics. The first comment in the picture was made by Friedman in 2006 and advocates for a school voucher system to be i…[Read more]
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LOYD-MICHAEL SULLIVAN replied to the topic Week 3 photo share in the forum Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 6 months ago
I chose a Theodore Geisel cartoon about the push to use the labor of African Americans in the United States military during the war effort of World War 2. Geisel, or Dr, Seuss, has been critiqued for his portrayal of minority community members, especially immigrants of Chinese and Japanese descent. I think the image is interesting for a few…[Read more]
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LOYD-MICHAEL SULLIVAN replied to the topic Week 2 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 6 months ago
I chose a picture of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14<sup>th</sup> Dalai Lama as my contribution this week. This picture was taken during the 2017 UCSD commencement ceremony. The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people and has spent much of his life advocating for the religious freedom, nonviolence, and compassion. Many civil rights…[Read more]