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March 8, 2019 at 6:03 pm #4682Ngan NhamParticipant
In this weekly photo share, I want to contribute a photo still taken from the documentary “Angry Inuk” directed by Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril in 2016.
This week we talked about how Native Americans were usually seen as vanishing or unimportant to the current capitalistic society such as the pipeline stand off. The documentary demonstrates another story in which the current euro-centric society tried to ally itself with the SAVE THE SEALS campaign with good intentions, however, their actions were negatively impacting the Inuit community that rely on seal skin commerce to keep themselves from starvation. The documentary shows how the campaigns that led the SaveTheSeals movement such as GreenPeace focused on the animals rather than the surrounding economic and cultural implications to the native Inuit. Even when the Inuit people protested the seal skin ban, their limited numbers leave them unheard to the global community against the voices of the powerful campaigns, corporations, and their media support. This is just another example of the grievances that the Native American people have to suffer under the capitalistic and euro-centric community that does not value the importance of the native population, their culture and their rights.
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March 2, 2019 at 9:30 pm #4528Ngan NhamParticipant
For this weekly share, I wanted to contribute a picture by David Goldman on July 14, 2018 of Kenny Still Smoking standing at Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, Mont., next to the grave of his daughter who was found dead on a mountain after she went missing.
This week we discussed the #MeToo movement, #SayHerName, intersectionality, and the injustices that women have to suffer under the realm of gender and racial superiority, I want to bring attention to Native American women. From the disappearance of Kenny Still Smoking’s daughter to Ashley Heavy Runner Loring, another Native American women that vanished whose whereabouts haven’t been found, depicts the injustices done toward the Native American women and girls. However, there was a common factor among these case- that usually the criminal was never found or never charged. Additionally, police searches to help these disappearances usually have a long delay before anything is done, causing the families of those that disappeared to take the matter into their own hands and search for themselves. There may have been opportunities for women to address their injustices, however that mostly applies to white women, whereas Native American women are mainly ignored. I hope that there will be a time that those groups of women that are mainly ignored by the racial and gender social hierarchy structures of society will finally get their justice in the future.
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February 23, 2019 at 10:25 pm #4269Ngan NhamParticipant
For this weekly share, I want to contribute a photo taken by Charles Krupa on July 28, 2016 at the Somerville City Hall in Somerville Mass. Here, police officers are protesting Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone’s decision to not remove a Black Lives Matter banner from the City Hall.
In class we talked about the Black Lives Matter, and the topic that stuck with me the most is the illusion of “limited justice”, which is perfectly depicted by this photo. It is the illusion that by giving Black Lives Matter the justice that they deserve, some justice is “taken away” from other groups, especially police forces, to compensate African Americans with “more justice”. Thus, the police force and their supporters are protesting any notion that African Americans should have more justice, even if it means protesting for a simple banner that does not harm anyone. This photo also demonstrates how people mistaken the Black Lives Matter movement and its message, especially those that should protect and defend African Americans even more.
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February 23, 2019 at 10:13 pm #4266Ngan NhamParticipant
For this weekly share, I want to contribute a photo taken by Charles Krupa in July 2016 in Somerville, Mass. Here, police officers are protesting Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone’s promise to not take down the “Black Lives Matter” from the city Hall.
This week we talked about the Black Lives Matter movement and this picture perfectly depicts the opposing forces against the Black Lives Matter. The illusion of “limited justice” really stuck with me so I picked this photo because it shows how some people feel that even if it is just a banner, in symbolism, giving African Americans the justice they deserve is in some way “taking away” from others, such as the police force. Therefore, the police force and their supporters are protesting at the town hall to fight for their “loss” in justice. Thus, they would not even allow a simple banner to be place on the city hall. This picture also demonstrates how people mistaken the Black Lives Matter movement ‘s message and purpose, especially the officers that should be protecting African American lives even more.
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February 17, 2019 at 2:59 pm #4133Ngan NhamParticipant
For this weekly share, I want to contribute a photo by David Brendan Hall in September 2016.
In class, we learned about the struggles that students and protestors had to go through to instill Ethnic Studies upon the educational system. I want to focus on the more recent troubles the Ethnic Studies program and its advocates still have to go through. The State Board of Education in Texas decided to put input a Mexican-American studies elective course for Texas’ public schools, however, they changed the name of the course from “Mexican-American Studies” to “Ethnic Studies: An Overview of Americans of Mexican Descent”. This was a protest against the made the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies’ Tejas Foco Committee on Mexican-American Studies because they believed that the name change de-emphasized the Mexican story and perspective while still white-washing the course itself when the course is supposed to help students learn about the struggles of Mexican-Americans. The name change suggests that the board of education wanted to disregard and de-value the Mexican culture and traditions as something trivial in comparison to being “American”.
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February 9, 2019 at 5:43 pm #3815Ngan NhamParticipant
For this weekly share about how the hip hop generation, I want to share a picture from PopBuzz that is taken from the Vevo music video of Childish Gambino “This is America” published on May 5, 2018 directed by Hiro Murai. This picture depicts Gambino carefully handling the gun after it was used to kill a person of color. By showing this image, Gambino wants the audience to see the comparison between how guns, the power to kill, are glorified and protected even if they are used to harm another (protected by a red cloth possibly symbolizing the red states) while the person of color does not have any value as they were carelessly dragged away. The music video depicts the June 2015 Charleston church shooting and police brutality against people of color which puts into perspective that all the events against people of color keeps happening over and over again without pause due to the concurrent racism in the country. Overall, the music video demonstrates Childish Gambino’s purpose to show the audience the discrimination and brutality that people of color have to endure even in today’s society and his critique of modern day internet that distracts away from the constant racism that still happens.
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February 2, 2019 at 10:55 pm #3638Ngan NhamParticipant
The picture included below is from The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service taken in March 27, 1971 of the Huey P. Newton Intercommunal Youth Institute and the photographer is unknown.
Even though the Black Panther party may be depicted as an armed, violent resistance party, this picture demonstrates their humanity and efforts to help the African American community. The liberation schools were set up by the Black Panther party to teach students not only the main courses such as math, English, and science, but also, to let students learn about racial inequality and class struggle at a young age so that they will be exposed to the systems that regulate their lifestyles. This style of early exposure reminded me of the lecture we had in class about Baldwin’s letter to his nephew to expose his young nephew to the injustices that his nephew might face in the future. Through this method, the younger generation can learn about the systems that were set up against them before it is too late. This image also illustrates what it means to be a good ally as the faculty at the school help the Black Panther party behind the scenes, sometimes living at the school year round in order to provide and teach the students while their parents were away as activists for the Black Panther party.
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January 26, 2019 at 5:41 pm #3397Ngan NhamParticipant
For this weekly share, I want to share a photo taken in January 28th, 2017 taken by Craig Ruttle about protesters that came together to protest the Muslim ban at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. The Muslim ban is related to this week’s theme in demonstrating the reality of the racism, a never ending cycle. During Baldwin’s Civil Rights Era, he had to flee the U.S. due to the discrimination against African Americans, but even if the Civil Rights movement has long been over, the racist roots are still strong within the U.S. The racism is still there, however, only now there is a different group being used as a scapegoat for the country’s social hierarchy. With the discrimination of African Americans, in 1882 was the discrimination against Chinese immigrants, and in 1942 discrimination against Japanese immigrants. Each time it is just a different group which puts a facade that the U.S. is improving equality for its people, however, when the real details are put together, it demonstrates that the U.S. repeatedly discriminates against its own people for social power.
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January 19, 2019 at 4:16 pm #3153Ngan NhamParticipant
For this weekly share about Leaders of the Civil Rights movement, I wanted to share a photo that demonstrates MLK’s “Beyond Vietnam” and his call for the U.S. government to stop their destructive interventions in Vietnam. The image displays Vietnamese children watching their house burn down in front of them after a patrol set it on fire (taken by HJ/AP in January 13, 1971 and uploaded on The Intercept newsletter). MLK talked about how U.S. intervention in Vietnam was a war on the poor because the financial aid that could have been used to help poor families in the U.S. was instead used for the war. However, the war happening in Vietnam was also against the poor in that country because they are the ones that do not have enough resources to defend themselves while U.S. reaps the profit of war economically and politically (being portrayed as the “defender of democracy”). This also demonstrates how the Western policies sacrifice the poor for the benefit of the few, which coincides with MLK’s critique of capitalism, the U.S.’s greed for immense profits from overseas instead of peaceful revolution.
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