[Kinady Lamb]

For my weekly share this week I wanted to use the song VRY BLK by Jamila Woods which is a song about modern issues that Black folks are facing at this time. I wanted to use the first verse of this line because it speaks about our Blackness and the beauty in it but also the different trials and tribulations that we face.  This song brings emphasis to the issue of police brutality that we face and it kind of still uplifts us by reassuring us that our Blackness is indeed still beautiful. I wanted to highlight one of the lines in the first verse that says, “If I say that I can’t breathe, will I become a chalk line, Line up to see the movie, line up to see the act, The officers are scheming to cover up their, Cover up their…ask me no more questions, tell me no more lies, Your serving and protecting is stealing babies lives” because this line sums up the song and what it is about.

 

Picture: From genius lyrics

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[Kinady Lamb]

For this weeks photo share I wanted to touch on something I was saying when we were in class this week. I often times get treated different in the Black community because I am someone with lighter skin and I am usually seen as someone who isn’t Black enough. Although, I know that I am fully Black and that is how I identify, some people don’t know how to process that and make their own preconceived notions about me. I used this picture as a bridge between my own testimony and also how people misconstrue what they believe Black is and what they think it isn’t. Many of the folks who are the faces of the civil rights movement and other movements for the Black communities were of lighter skin but we also dont talk about that when talking about them. So I just wanted to share this picture and show how people were saying Jesse Williams was not Black enough but many of our activist icons also identify as light skin.

 

Picture by: @akanundrum on twitter

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For my photo, I chose a picture that was taken up in Julian, San Diego. I chose this picture because my family and I have never gone to national parks or have done any camping of that sorts. I chose this ictus because the first time I experienced going to a cabin in the woods was when I got to college and had to go for a job retreat. This picture signifies accessibility to me because I had never experienced something like this until I was able to go and experience higher education at a predominantly white institution. Over this week I was able to really look back and question why I haven’t done things like this related to wilderness and I believe the biggest thing is cultural differences. My family was not accustomed to doing these things when they grew up so they had no reason to pass it down to their families. Overall, I don’t see many Black families enjoying the wilderness so I am pretty sure this has to deal with my lack of accessibility to it.

 

Taken by: Joanne & Tony Dibona

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The picture I chose to use is a group of diverse 3rd graders by Ryan Mcvay. I chose this photo for representation of how I was reading an article when I was a lot younger and the article said that prisons start making beds for people after their third grade year. Basically, they take data from third graders reading skills and determine how many beds they will need based off of that number. I think that is an extremely oppressive and elitist way to determine how many beds private prisons will create. We all know that opportunities are not the same for all groups and all areas and school districts, so to count young students out because of how well they read is completely wrong. When I worked over the summer as a teacher i taught k-2 grade students in a reading literacy program. These students went to the second worst school, based off of schools, in Los Angeles, meaning many of them couldn’t read and the ones that could couldn’t do it well. I couldn’t even imagine the private prison system making beds for them because they were given the same opportunities as the others. I just wanted to share this articles topic and show how prisons beds are counted for our future kids.

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Today, I wanted to do my weekly photo share on the Los Angeles Unified School District, and them addressing the segregation issues that happen within the Los Angeles county schools. I read and got my information from the article, “LA’s Schools Are Segregated. LAUSD Says There’s Only So Much They Can Do”, by Kyle Stokes and the picture I am using is from Kyle Stokes as well. Although it has been proven that students tend to learn better in environments that are racially integrated, more than half the students in LA go to schools that are 90% Latino and Black. With this information, according to the census it shows that although white people say they want their children to grow up in racially integrated environments, they usually want to stay in all white neighborhoods. They have tried to address the issues of segregation by creating policies lie the Magnet programs, but they see that much improvement hasn’t happened and a different approach will have to happen. </span>

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I wanted to do my weekly photo share on Louis Farrakhan, who is a member of the Nation of Islam. In my first year of college I went to a conference called the Afrikan Black Coalition conference where all Black students come from all the UC’s and CSU’s in California, it is a place to celebrate Blackness in its entirety and in every intersection that there is. Farrakhan was the keynote speaker which was slightly contradictory because the Nation of Islam does not acknowledge all Blackness so he received a lot of backlash from his speech. It was very interesting seeing how he spoke his views and was very content in them and how students who were at the conference did not agree since the need for inclusiveness in the Black community has grown immensely over the years.

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For this weeks photo share I wanted to share Marian Wright Edelman and also reflect upon my experience this summer working with the children defense fund. I worked with the childrens defense fund over the summer which was made in the the height of the civil rights movement. This picture is relevant today because she is the founder and director of the children’s defense fund and it is still something that is working to undo all the oppression that have been put against Black folks today. Specifically, over this summer I worked with freedom school as a teacher for students to help improve students literacy in a system that works progressively against them.

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