With undocumented immigrants there is often a misconception that they are lazy and take all the American resources. This misconception has, in recent years, been spread and reinforced through authority figures like our current president. However, as discussed in class, we know that it is not true. Many of the undocumented immigrants do pay taxes,…[Read more]

This week’s topic is Legalized Islamophobia and during the entire time we discussed this week, I often thought about Ahmed Mohamed, a 14 year old teen who was arrested at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas. He brought a homemade alarm clock that he made from scratch to his school, but a teacher saw it and thought it was a bomb and called the…[Read more]

In class we discussed Japanese-American “Internment” and we discussed how these camps that the Japanese Americans were detained at were concentration camps more than internment camps. Most of the Japanese that were there were American citizens but the fact that they looked like the Japanese who bombed pearl harbor made them unlucky subjects of…[Read more]

Part of this week’s theme was James Baldwin and his affect on the civil rights movement. He, as we could tell from his literary works, was an eloquent writer who wrote about the injustice of African Americans. Both as an author and as someone who stood for social justice, he has inspired many modern day writers like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Toni…[Read more]

This picture is a mugshot of Martin Luther King Jr., when he was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 for protesting against segregation. This is the jail where MLK wrote the famous Letter from Birmingham Jail. King went to jail without any resistance, and this is reflected in his letter when he states ” ‘Are you able to accept blows without…[Read more]

This week’s topic is Civil Rights Today and this powerful picture, taken by Jonathan Bachman, of this woman really stood out to me. In Baton Rouge, she is both mourning the loss of Alton Sterling, a black man who was killed by the police, as well as protesting police brutality. I chose this picture because of the determined look on this w…[Read more]