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For this week’s photo share, I chose a group photo pf Myneca Ojo and her friends playing a round of golf at the Grandview Golf Club. What makes this picture particularly associated with this week’s topic is that the group of women had the police called on them for allegedly playing too slow. For reference, the golf club is in a largely white suburban community with many of the members being elderly white males. The African-American women were harassed repeatedly by a form count commissioner for playing too slow and eventually called the police for “taking too long of a break” after finishing a round. When the police arrived they quickly saw that they were not needed and left. What makes this situation even more ridiculous is that the only group playing behind Myncea and her group did not even complain to the management, with one from the group expressing outrage at their treatment. This situation displays the daily troubles that African Americans face in our country and is a testament to the progress that still needs to be done.

 

Reference: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/us/black-women-golfers-york.html

Photographer: Myneca Ojo, FB

DATE: April 25, 2018

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For this week’s topic I have chosen this picture as it shows the visible difference in the quality of water given to the people of Flint and of Detroit. The person holding the water samples is of Marc Edwards, a water scientist, who has whistle blown on other government failings of keeping the public water supply contamination free. I thought this picture was really poignant to the topic of reaction/action being slow towards victims from minority groups as Marc has pointed out of past failing of water contamination in government agencies but was ostracized for pointing out a blatant problem. It is very disheartening to see how little some government agencies care about correcting their own mistakes for the good of the public and instead focus on keeping their facade that they are a functional tool for the public.

 

Source: https://blogs.plos.org/onscienceblogs/2016/02/12/science-heroes-of-flints-lead-water-crisis/

Photographer: Steve Carmody

Date: Feb 2016

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For my picture, I chose an image of a household still affected one year after the devastation that hurricane Maria wrought in Puerto Rico. I thought this picture was very relevant to what we talked about in class of the lack of help that Puerto Rico received from the U.S when Maria initially struck and support from the government wained over time. The article that has this image talks of various families/individuals that are still living in very poor conditions one year later and A Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation survey noted that 25 percent of Puerto Ricans indicated that their daily lives are still disrupted due to the damage. It is really disheartening to see the state in which Puerto Rico is still in even though they are a part of the U.S.

Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/a-year-after-hurricane-maria-a-puerto-rican-town-is-still-in-upheaval/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.45bb7103b862

 

Photographer: Sarah L. Voisin

Date: Sept 12, 2018

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For this week’s topic, I chose my image as it directly talks about the topic of zoning minority neighborhoods and of the construction of highways through neighborhoods that were there long before. For context, the article talks about a predominately black neighborhood in the city Corpus Christi, Texas, and of talks by the city to relocate and build a highway bridge over the neighborhood, which is already surrounded by heavy industrial sites with virtually no buffer to protect them from air pollution. This kept on creating new zoning areas for industrial companies over the neighborhood and essentially drove many out of the area as they were offered minimal buyouts. Overall, the article goes into depth about the history of the neighborhood and of how the population, as well as health, has declined over the years due to zoning and construction surrounding the neighborhood.

 

Reference: https://texashousers.net/2015/08/07/the-story-behind-the-harbor-bridge-segregation-neglect-and-pollution-in-corpus-christi/

Photographer: Robert Coy

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For this week I chose this picture as I thought it relates to the idea of reparations for African American families whose ancestors helped build the United States. This picture is from an article talking about why the idea of reparations to black families is an unmentionable topic in government policies and of how difficult it is to have a sustained conversation about it. I thought this related heavily to Coates idea of reparations and of how African Americans, though may never get financial reparations, still have the possibility of getting their true history of the suffering and obstacles that they have faced in the U.S

Source: https://www.salon.com/2018/03/31/why-cant-we-talk-about-reparations-a-congressional-candidate-broaches-an-unmentionable-topic/

Illustrator: Taylor Callery

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For this week I chose the picture of the Rayfield family leaving their home. The picture was taken in 1959 and occurred after their house had been bombed. The Rayfield family moved into a predominantly white neighborhood and were immediately met with protesters seeking to keep their neighborhood black free. 300 protesters met them when they first moved in and were repeatedly harassed. The family’s house was bombed not only once but twice throughout the year and were forced out as the second bombing damaged the structure of the house and it was deemed unlivable. I thought this picture was very relevant to this week’s topic as it encompasses the gruesome tactics employed by racist neighborhoods and of how difficulties was/is for Black families to live in America and try to branch out.

Reference
http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2017/09/17/delaware-remembers-1950-s-racists-bombings-collins-park/675303001/

Photographer
Ted Russel, Life Picture Collection
1959

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2017/09/17/delaware-remembers-1950-s-racists-bombings-collins-park/675303001/

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This picture was taken on Alcatraz Island in 1969 by an Associated Press reporter (name not found). The picture depicts, John Trudell, a Native American activist overlooking the San Francisco Bay from a traditional Native American teepee. For context, it is around this time that the Alcatraz prison facility was closed down and Native Americans tried to reappropriate the land into a Native cultural center for all Northern tribes as the government had deemed the land as surplus property. I feel that this picture is relative to week two’s topic as it relates to Wolfe’s examination between early European settlers and Native Americans. In this case, the Native Americans trying to reappropriate the land that the government was not using as European settlers had done so before.

Reference: http://we-make-money-not-art.com/unthanksgiving-and-the-occupation-of-alcatraz-by-american-natives/
Picture taken by the AP in 1969

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