[Kevin Khuu]

The photo I chose from Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn is an info graphic that displays the environmental risks that people of color deal with regularly. The graphic makes the point clear, if you are a person of color you are on average far more likely to deal with environmental health exposures than a white person. This relates to segregation and its hazards because it is not because people of color choose to live in environmentally hazardous areas, but are forced to due to a lack of opportunity and economic confinement. The graphic also has kids in the image to remind people that this isn’t just adults, but the youth that are suffering and going to have long term consequences from this exposure.

 

 

 

Source: https://www.thenation.com/article/race-best-predicts-whether-you-live-near-pollution/

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This photo of Simone Manuel by Adam Pretty is of a candid picture of her receiving her gold medal in swimming. Simone won her medal in swimming for the Rio Olympics of 2016. She is the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal in swimming ever. The powerful stereotype that black people can’t swim has stuck in America for years. It perpetuates the idea that black people are unable to do the simplest of things. Simone has not only infiltrated the white space but she has eclipsed it. What she has done is monumental and serves as a role model for future generations.

Source:  https://inews.co.uk/sport/olympics/simone-manuel-first-black-woman-win-olympic-gold-medal-swimming/

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Here is a picture of the United States government sending fully armed National Guard units to disperse those protesting at Standing Rock. It seems ridiculous to use military forces to dispel protectors of their own land because it is. They are encroaching on their land by building a disastrous pipeline that will soil the water and dirt. All of this is so devastating to the Native American community as they have time and time again been screwed over. This is a practice the US government knows too well, to betray Native Americans after already having an agreement with them. I hope one day we won’t have to look back at this period of our lives as another dark era for the indigenous community.

Source: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/military-force-criticized-dakota-access-pipeline-protests by Jenni Monet

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The picture I chose from Wes Schultz is of a fireman and a trail of prisoners behind him, which can be interpreted through the difference of color in their protective gear. There is another difference between  the firemen and the men behind him, the fireman chose this line of work and the prisoners did not. Reducing sentences is incredibly enticing for the men, even willing to brave monstrous fires that so many wouldn’t dare to. This furthers the idea that these men are part of the surplus population and are good for saving the state money. These men do so much more for the public than most, yet they are compensated so poorly and are victims of the prison-industrial complex that benefit from the imprisonment of minorities.

Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/amandachicagolewis/the-prisoners-fighting-californias-wildfires

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I chose a political cartoon for this week’s theme. After further reflection from discussion in class, I realized that the death tool was tremendous and unnecessary and had that happened in say, New York, then America would go mad. People often find themselves forgetting that Puerto Ricans are Americans, I myself am guilty even though I visited it myself. I attribute that to our education system for our youth, Puerto Rico is not included in the United States map to memorize in grade school, which is likely a  result of the purposeful and targeted discrimination to people of color. I can’t imagine 3,000+ people dying in California, or any other mainland state. This picture depicts Trump deciding to golf over the issue of Hurricane Maria, instead of taking any action.

Source: http://thecomicnews.com/edtoons/2017/1004/puertorico/01.php By Rob Rogers

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I got this picture from the Underwood Archives. The Freedom Riders were a group of interracial rights activists that rode a Greyhound bus throughout the South, ignoring “Whites Only” and “for Colored” signs alike. This picture in particular was when their bus was firebombed, demonstrating the intense violence and resistance they faced for acting as a catalyst for equality. Southerners were so determined to keep Jim Crow intact that they would harm their own race to stop the bus. To be able to keep people of color out of their daily lives and outings is comparable to today’s Republican Party’s stance on welfare among other economic and social policies that keep black people poor and unable to accumulate wealth as easily as white people and restrict their space.

Source: https://www.thoughtco.com/the-freedom-riders-movement-2834894

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I got my photo from Johnny Miller, a freelance photographer. While this picture is of South Africa, it struck a note in me. The photo is a beautiful green golf course right aside a shabby neighborhood. It reminds me of Palmdale, where I am from. Palmdale is a minority-majority city consisting primarily of Black and Hispanic populations. On the other side of the mountain, and in our representative district is the city of Santa Clarita, which is a majority white city.  While both cities are in the desert like the photo, Santa Clarita is much like the golf course, sustained green spaces with strong education and cleaner air while Palmdale is the neighborhood filled with poverty and crime. It enrages me to see that the district politicians will only engage with Santa Clarita and West Palmdale (wealthier side) because they know that East Palmdale (my side) will not vote. The interests of majority white areas are protected by their politicians who claim to attract jobs to the city but in doing so leave the pollutants and have the jobs taken by commuters from the surrounding areas.

 

Source: https://www.diyphotography.net/dramatic-drone-photos-show-thin-line-divides-rich-poor/

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I chose this image I found from Halifax Media Co-op in relation to this week’s theme of space. A graphic that depicts the silhouettes of what appear to be two colored people, most likely a mother and her child staring at the industrial site in front of them. A pure white factory that spews pollutants into the open black sky. The graphic is in those colors to bring the harsh truth to light; that those who bring about environmental damage are white and those who suffer and are forced to live in it are people of color. While white people create the spaces of industry, they also structure the constraints of society so that those who live in these spaces of industry are either too poor to move, or are too uneducated to realize the catastrophic results that come with air pollution. Source: 36472

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