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For this week, we talked a lot about white fragility and white space. I picked this cartoon for this week because it reminds me of the discussions we had in class about how white can benefit from being white even if they don’t have that intention. This image talks about the defensive nature when people are getting called out about racism. It’s human’s mechanism to defend against what they don’t want to be. However, they do not accept the fact that white privilege and space exists because they lived their life not knowing about it and believe they’re not part of it.

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<h2>What Racism Is(n’t) About</h2>
Cartoon by Barry

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For this week, I choose this image to reflect on what happened with the #NoDAPL, this image is captured of the people protesting for the Sioux from other part of the country. I choose this picture because I found it ironic that people are using tents and camps and industrialized equipment to protest for the reservation of nature. I felt like we are at a point where we need to learn to coexist with one and another with our different lifestyles. Also, I feel like if people not part of the Sioux are against this pipeline, then honestly there is something fundamentally wrong with our government when it comes to environmental racism.

Source: Horses graze early on the morning of Sept. 14, 2016, at the Oceti Sakowin camp near the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, where thousands of people are camped in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline project. It’s reportedly the largest gathering of Native Americans in more than a century. RNS photo by Emily McFarlan Miller

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From this week discussion, I think this picture would fit most of what we are talking about. The thing that struck me the most was when we discusses people of color at Flint being “disposable”. Hence why I picked this picture. The political cartoon depict the kind of water people of color get vs. white. Since their skin has different color, their water is too. I find that really intriguing that the quality of water is dependence on one’s race. Furthermore, this tie back to being disposable, the tainted waters are disposable water and its funny that disposable water goes to “disposable” people.

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CLASS WAR-Viral Political Cartoon Exposes the Brutal Segregation of Flint’s Water Crisis
by Mike Logsdon.

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For this week, I chose a political cartoon depicting today’s politicians’ view on climate change and natural disasters. Climate change is real, but these politicians do not acknowledge it. In a way to what we read about this week, I feel like denying climate change is a big factor that help play a role in environmental racism. Denying the very apparent change in our climate is basically denying help to places where they do need help getting back up. The most affected areas are often poor and cannot handle these situations such as Puerto Rico or New Orleans.

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“….Climate change is a hoax folks…believe me I know….fake news.”

Cartoonist: Grosz, Chris

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This is Linda brown from Brown V Board of education case. This case is pretty well known so I will skip the introduction. But I picked  this picture because of we related segregation in school and that kind of remind me of this. I find it ironic how its more than 50 years later we’re still having the same problem with serration at school. This case also reminds me of like affirmative action we talk in class.

 

Source: This undated file photo, location unknown, shows Linda Brown Smith. Smith was a third grader when her father started a class-action suit in 1951 of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, which led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 landmark decision against school segregation. (AP Photo, File)

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This image is today South African’s apartheid depiction. I picked this image as a representation of this week’s segregation theme because of the juxtaposition of land usage. The image series listed below(in the guardian link there are more) show the use of land, road, and even terrain are used to separate people. We often don’t see the barrier that divide races. But looking at these images, we can clearly see the environment plays in a big factor to how people are divided and how they are separated.

Source: Kya Sands/Bloubosrand from Unequal Scenes: Segregation of urban spaces in South Africa by Johnny Miller Photograph: Johnny Miller/Millefoto/Rex/Shutterstock

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/jun/23/south-africa-divided-cities-apartheid-photographed-drone

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The image I chose is from an abandoned amusement park in the middle of Ohio. I chose this image to relate to the topic of how we human choose to see and utilize land. I relate this photograph to Wolfe’s land is life idea. The reason is, as we can see, nature has taken over our abandoned attempt of using land as a resource to help our entertainment. My view of how the indigenous people see land is portrayed exactly like the image. They are the green of the world, fighting hard against the rapid industrialization that took their land and visions away. My view of how the later generation of American is also portrayed here. They are the rust left behind and their view of land was is for the purpose of entertainment and resources.

Source: the Idiot Photographer(https://idiotphotographer.wordpress.com/tag/nature/)

 

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