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January 21, 2019 at 2:26 pm #3324
Sheny Orellana
ParticipantI have attached some tweets from #MLKAlsoSaid via twitter that reflect the thoughts shared in class that Martin Luther King was much more radical than the three common speeches about peace and nonviolence that are attributed to him. These tweets tie back the themes about the violence committed by American society in Dr. King’s time being somewhat timeless as many of the injustices happening then, continue to happen today. Social media has a dynamic role in modern times as not only being a space for performative activism, but also as a show of how more people can have their voice heard, and it is a voice that is speaking up for more widespread knowledge and justice. These tweets point out that Dr. King also spoke about police brutality, criticized the military industrial system, and his changing views on violence, all of which remain relevant to today’s politics.
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November 4, 2018 at 9:38 pm #2285
Sheny Orellana
ParticipantThis week’s topic was about Japanese Internment and how the United States was not only able, but willing, to sacrifice the rights and deny the humanity of Asian American citizens in the process of internment. Below are two pictures, the first being a photo of vandalized property at the Nichiren Buddhist Temple left behind by Japanese Americans in Los Angeles in 1944. The picture belongs to Densho and is courtesy of the National Archives and Records administration. The second photo is of rosaries collected by a janitor who rescued them after they were confiscated from immigrants trying to cross the United States’ southern border to be discarded, on the grounds that they were lethal and unnecessary, and photographed by Tom Kiefer for his collection “El Sueño Americano” which he began in 2007. I chose both of these photos because they represent the dehumanization involved in containing and detaining people, and the manifestation of violence in stripping people of their rights and belongings. In one of these pictures violence is enabled by the state, but both of these pictures show the violence manifesting from the culture within that state and the community that allowed the dehumanization of people to progress that far. The topic of civil rights is one that often is pushed to the back of people’s minds and when it is remembered, it is remembered as a static event of the past created by an archaic state rather than a state-sponsored pattern that is reinforced by ordinary citizens within the community.
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https://densho. org/sold-damaged-stolen-gone-japanese-american-property-loss-wwii/
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