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This week I would like to share a video I found named Stand Up/ Stand N Rock  #NoDAPL by Taboo. I feel the song fits perfectly with this week’s theme since it talks about how water is life and the injustices that were done to Native Americans and their lands. One has to keep in mind how over the course of time lands have been taken from their rightful owners in order to build corporations or make profit of some sort. #ometimes one does not even stop to think how some national parks are so beautiful, but in order to have the land as a park, the native people had to be kicked out of their homes. The song tells the people that have lived thousands of years on the land to stand up and not let anyone take away their home. It’s the people versu the pipelines, and the people are not giving up their land or water without a fight.

 

Source: YouTube

Date: dec 4,2016

Artist: Taboo

https://youtu.be/Onyk7guvHK8

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This week I wanted to share the lyrics from the song titled Changes by Tupack, who is a famous rapper. The song expresses the injustices that African American people would have to live on a daily and how some issues are related to one another. In the song he mentions the issue on how based on the color of your skin you can tell if you are poor and how police do not give a dam if a black person was shot, since the police officer would look like the hero . I feel this song gives a powerful message towards how people need to be united to make a change in the world they live in, if they truly want to make the world we live in a better place for everyone. The song also brings to light how lack people have felt towards feeling different that some don’t see the point in living in such a cruel world.

Artist: 2Pac-Changes ft. Talent

Source: YouTube

date: July 5, 2011

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This week’s theme is #sayhername and #metoo. The image I picked for this week’s photo share demonstrates black woman, who are shirtless. They are protesting against police brutality and the multiple crimes that have been done against black woman and children, who have been also killed. I found their protest very powerful because these woman were not afraid to speak up and inform the world about these injustices that are happening to black people, who are innocent. I decided to cover the woman’s breast incase it makes some people uncomfortable to see. I felt this image connected to this week’s theme because of how woman from all around the world can use the hashtag and tell their story about injustices they face, which encourages others to also use their voice.

 

Source: https://ronabbass.wordpress.com/2015/05/23/sayhername-black-females-go-topless-to-protest-police-brutality-against-women/

https://ronabbass.wordpress.com/2015/05/23/sayhername-black-females-go-topless-to-protest-police-brutality-against-women/

Date: May 23, 2015

Author: n/a

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This week’s theme is white space. The picture that I picked for this week is about a protest that happen at UC Berkeley about demanding safe spaces for people of color and not just white. The students protesting were found not allowing white students from entering certain areas and debating to why that was occurring. Students were found asking others about what is the majority of their classes consisted of when it comes to race and why they thought so. Some of these protesters were able to convince the school towards building separate housing for black students in order to avoid problems. The university had promised to become a more diverse campus that makes all students from all backgrounds feel welcomes and not segregated. I felt that this image connected to this week’s theme because these students were fighting for equality on their campus and for white students to not be treated superior than the rest. I find it so important for students to hold their university accountable when they feel that there is not spaces for people of color, but there is for white folks.

Author: Adelle Nazarian

Title: Berkeley Protesters Demand ‘Spaces of Color,’ Block White students from passing through

DAte: 25 October 2016

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/local/2016/10/25/berkeley-protesters-demand-spaces-of-color-block-white-students-from-passing-through/

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This week’s theme is Black Lives Matter. This week, I want to share a video I found on YouTube titled Black Lives Matter Moverment|Global Citizen. The video talks about Black folks matter just like any other human being. The video also helps shed light to incidents that have happen about police brutality and how some officers have not stoped to first think before they shoot. Some black people find it scary to think about how police officers can be the the jury, judge, and executioner when it comes to fiting a certain profile they are chasing, when they could be off by multiple factors. I loved how this video emphasized how  all lives matter regardless of the color of their skin and how everything can easily be recorded by a phone when an injustice is being done. We are all human beings and if we want the world to be great, we can not do it separately. We all need to be united in order to make a difference in the world.

https://youtu.be/c1IopsKY0dY

Source: Youtube https://youtu.be/c1IopsKY0dY

Author: Global Citizen

Date: January 27, 2017

 

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This week’s theme is native exclusion and the making of “America’s Best Idea.” I picked this photo from the article “The Forgotten History of ‘Violent Displacement’ That Helped Create The National Parks” because I felt that it emphasized the importance of this week’s theme. The article brought to attention how “[b]ut what’s often left unmentioned is that for the parks to become the protected lands of public imagination, their prior inhabitants—such as indigenous peoples and the rural poor — had to be evicted.” (NoiseCat pg 1). Many people do not realize how not everyone is felt welcomed at national parks because of the things folks have done to exclude others from lands that aren’t theirs. Hundredths of native Americans had to be thrown out of their land, when the land became a national park, when natioal parks should not destroy human lives. Have people not considered that if we continue to destroy tribal people, we will continue to destroy nature? As the video in the article said “we [need to] help tribal peoples defend their lives, protect their lands and determine their own futures.” I find it so hard to see how innocent people’s land is taken away in order to make it into a national park, when the land belongs to them, who have lived for generations to take care of the land.

Article: “The Forgotten History of ‘Violent Displacement’ That Helped Create The National Parks”

Author: Julian Brave NoiseCat

Date: 08/26/2015

Website: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/national-park-service-anniversary-indigenous-people_us_55dcdd7ce4b0a40aa3ac9998

 

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This week’s theme has to do with the origins of ethnic studies. The image I picked reminded me a lot about the movie called “precious knowledge” because it talked about how some government officials believed that the Mexican-American class was being racist and mean towards white folks, when that was not the situation. The image shows students protesting towards allowing ethnic studies to continue in order to further learn about their culture and from where they came from. This situation was occurring in Arizona about not allowing ethnic studies that students started to protest for their right to learn about their culture. Government officials were believed that the teachers were trashing our founding fathers and making them less important, but that was not really what was happening. This image helps see how students felt towards knowing that their culture was treated like if it was not important to learn about.

Author: Jeff Biggers

Date: dec 6, 2017 (last updated )

Website: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/tucson-ethnic-studies_b_1224256.html

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This week’s theme is mass incarceration and the making of a racial undercaste. This week, I picked two images that I would like to share with the class, which I believe relate to the week’s theme. The first image shows as a little black kid on his bike with training wheels is being stopped by some police officers. I believe the image comes to show how heartless white cops are towards people of color that they will make any excuse in order to lock them up or make them seem like the criminal. This kid could have been just crossing the street or going to the park, that the cops found the situation as an excuse to stop the kid and interrogate him about what he is doing. People should not have to justify their daily activity just because they are people of color and people tend to sterotype them. The second image is a cartoon demonstrating a white police officer with a speed detector device that measures the speed a car is going at except this one targets either blacks, whites, and latinos. In this image the cop’s radar detects a black person is speeding and goes after him/her. I find this image relating to how cops tend to incarcerate people of color more because they feel that they are a danger, when they are regular human beings like the rest of us. These images come to show how fast people tend to sterotype people and try to put them behind bars because they seem a danger to others in one way or another. I find this to being so heartless and uncaring towards how these people should not be treated like animals, but as the human being that they are. All people should be treated the same regardless of the color of their skin, but unfortunately we live in a word that this is not the situation. The first image was also shared in last quarter’s class by one of my peers, and I felt it also fit this week’s theme.

 

Image: Black Kid with Bike

Source: LA Progressive: Response to ACLU racial profiling Study: Los Angeles Police Department Never Met a Reofrm Report It agrees with

Website: https://www.laprogressive.com/response-to-aclu-racial-profiling-study-los-angeles-police-department-never-met-a-reform-report-it-agrees-with/

Date: Jan 17, 2009

Author: Dr. Anthony Samad

 

 

Image: Cop with speeding. Detector

Source: https://keyconversationsradio.com/racial-profiling-is-on-steroids/

Date: unknown

Author: Freddie Allen

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This week’s theme has to do with the hiphop generation. I first want to point out how some people believe that hiphop is aggressive towards authority just to be disrespectful, but that is not the situation. Hiphop is used towards shedding light to injustices that people of color have gone through or are going through. For example there is the song that says “fuck the police” which many people find rebellion towards the authority, but it actually talks about the police brutally situation. The image I picked is a quote from a book titled The New H.N.I.C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop, Boyd by Todd Boyd. The quote brings to attention how hiphop is not used as a form of violence, but a form to create awareness about situations that are violating people’s rights. Hiphop serves as a voice to those people whose rights have been violated and silence if like nothing had happen. This quotes connects to this week’s topic because it brings to attention how hiphop isnt violent towards the athuority, but how hiphop serves as people’s voice to speak about injustices and discrimination that has happen and continues to happen.

Author: unknown

Date: March 1, 2003

Source: Hiphop: Today’s civil rights movement ?

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1178621

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This week’s theme has to do with education and segregation. I decided to pick this image showing children doing the pledge of allegiance because it comes to show how they are willing to pledge their loyalty to their country, but their country is not willing to provide them equal opportunities. One’s country should provide everyone equal opportunities in order to succeed, but this isn’t the case in the real world. Many students in today’s modern day are still deprived from resources that other schools may have like technology, teachers, books, and basic supplies needed in a class setting. One of my peers brought to attention how some schools are taken into higher importance than others and the reason remain skeptic. Like who gets to decide whose school’s funding gets cut? Who gets to decide who goes to school there? Who gets to decide what is being taught?  These are questions that have lose ends to them. the way this image connects to this week’s theme is by showing how hypocritical our nation is towards providing everyone a fair chance at gaining the best education that they can.

Date: May 17, 2013

Author: Jorge Rivas

Source: color lines

https://www.colorlines.com/articles/may-17-1954-supreme-court-rules-racial-segregation-schools-unconstitutional

 

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Image Name: “ Meghan Markle’s friend tortured in Saudi prison for fighting for women’s rights”

Source: Sunday Express

Date: February 2, 2019

This week is beyond the civil right movement. I just want to bring to attention that not all heros that fight for people’s rights are recognized, which is sadly the case at times. The article brings to attention how right activist are being tortured, exposed to eletrict shock, water deprived, and threaten to be raped or worst. The person that had been put in person had been Loujain Al Hathloul, who was a well known activist. She was fighting at Saudi for woman’s rights and for them to have the ability to drive in their country, which would belittle the woman. It’s people like her that help make a difference in people’s lives because without right activist maybe we wouldn’t have the rights we have today, because not many speak up when they are being belittled or dehumanized due to many factors.

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This week’s theme continues to be segregation. The image I picked for this week’s photo share demonstrates young boys having signs that say they do not want black people at their schools because they wont accept them. This connects to segregation because people were teaching their sons to only like their own color, when they should have learned how to get along with everyone. Unfortunately, when black children began to start going to an all white school, they faced the chances of being mistreated, abused of, manipulated, and all sorts of things. This image reminded me of how the government would allow white folks to have a voice, but would treat people of color as if they weren’t human. Many black folks and people of color in the past faced lots of discrimination based off the color of their skin and were constantly reminded by the white man that they were nothing compared to them. White folks would ingrain in black people’s mind that they should hate the fact that they are black and how that wont change. However, in today’s modern day segregation has continued to be an issue, but a lot of movements towards injustices have been made and that is always one step towards a victory to being accomplished.

Image: Pinterest

date: unknown

author: unknown

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This weeks theme is beyond the civil rights movement. This week I would like to share a quote from James Baldwin that speaks about how today’s actions towards people of color haven’t changed as much from the past. The quotes brings to attention how a white person might demand his/her rights and have them granted with a gun, but if a person of color where to do that he/she would be labeled as a criminal. Baldwin points out the injustices that are often done to people of color without hesitation and are often seen as ‘they deserved it” by white people that don’t and will never understand what it means to be a person of color. For example, if a white person where to ask a cashier if they could go for their wallet they forgot in the car to pay for the groceries, the white person would be allowed to take the groceries with them, while a person of color is more likely to be denied the chance and labeled as someone that wants to steal. In today’s society one can often realize how not a lot of white people have changed towards treating people of color fairly, but once again not all people can be changed towards how they were taught growing up.

Source:
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date: 2015

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Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/05/segregation-now/359813/

Date: March 2014

Author: Nikole-Hannah-jones

This weeks class theme is segregation. This article I found on the Atlantic magazine titled “ Segregation Now…Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the schools in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, reveals how separate but equal doctrine seems to be coming back to schools and affecting people of colors education based on their race. A Chief Justice leader named Earl Warren brings to attention how “that to separate black children “from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone” (Jones par. 20).  He sheds light to how humanity does not seem to care about the long time consequences that the doctrine will have upon uniting people and not separating them. The article brought to attention how we as a nation continue to separate individuals from one another based off race when race shouldn’t be a factor to determine a person’s future and eduction. The way that this article and picture connect to this weeks theme is by demonstrating how people of color have been throughout time dehumanized and mistreated, however this has only made people of color stronger towards fighting for their rights when others try to take them away. The image demonstrates white students doing a sort of protest towards rejecting the acceptance of black students in their school.

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This weeks theme focuses on leaders during the civil rights movement. The person that I decided to focus on for this theme is Martin Luther King Jr. because he wrote several speeches trying to help people of color be able to gain the social justice they deserved. For example, he wrote the speech titled “Beyound Vietname” which talked about how the war was an enemy to the people of color and did not serve any justice. He mentioned in the speech how the war seemed like the only time that soilders of color and white were put togther in the same battle field, but when it came to education they were separated. The government had the power to do something about this, but instead it was the people that seeked out a change. This leader connects to the class and the theme since we are learning about figures, who were discriminated without truly knowing them and about social justice that people have fought for over time.

Artist: MLK

Source: https://abagond.wordpress.com/

Date of image: Jan 2, 2013

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