This image relates to “White Fragility,” specifically regarding segregation and color lines.  Unfortunately, the absolute insult to a beloved cartoon must be brought back up: Avatar: The Last Airbender movie released in 2010.  The movie is a clear example of how individuals strive to keep the media as a white space.  In the cartoon, nearly all cha…[Read more]

I chose this picture because it requires the reclaiming of land from the United States government to an indigenous population, and the inherently flawed countermeasures taken to resist such a return.  The Lenape were a tribe that occupied current day Delaware prior to the European colonization of the Americas.  Recently, the surviving and a…[Read more]

This is the Citarum River in Indonesia, also known as the world’s most polluted river.  Tarahita and Rakhmat say, “If we are lucky enough to glimpse the water, we will see it is colored due to the excessive amount of toxic chemicals being dumped into the river by industries.”  In spite of this horrifying reality, 25 million people continue to u…[Read more]

This cartoon is of a man whose home is left in ruins after a disaster struck, and the manual is essentially what FEMA and other federal institutions have done to help neighborhoods avoid disasters (which is essentially nothing).  The second step reads, “Move to a rich, white neighborhood,” which highlights how impoverished and disadvantaged…[Read more]

The article listed below is one of the many released by the Chicago Teachers Union who protest against the stark inequality in education, resources, and environmental safety plaguing students throughout the entire city.  In the picture, the boy is holding a sign that says, “This would NOT happen in the GOLD COAST,” which refers to an affluent…[Read more]

In reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article this week, the idea of reparations as “the full acceptance of our collective biography and its consequences” is a controversial idea, as many who refuse to accept history for what it is are also the beneficiaries of selective narrative erasure.  The widespread refusal to accept discrimination and racism beyond…[Read more]

This image is a graphic of the many counties in the state of Alabama with different shades of blue that represent the percentage of residents who live at or below the poverty line (the darker the blue, the worse the economic conditions).  The dark-colored counties in the bottom half of the state make up an area known as the Alabama Black Belt,…[Read more]

The image I chose was from a moment in a movie called Wind River, which takes place on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming.  While the West Central Fuel Company is not the primary focus of the movie, the presence of for-profit drilling companies on Native American land is indicative of how the Eurocentric romanticism of land prevails t…[Read more]