#iftheygunnedmedown
in truth, both "identities" have the right to exist. we shouldn't have to prove that we're "good" enough to live.
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- Feb 2021
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, mainstream media rarely posit Black people in positive ways
I would argue that the media also presents certain Black people as heroes and impressive and worthy of respect and life because of their education or the way they speak or their jobs. These factors are used as examples of why they deserve to be seen as human... instead of the very fact that they are human.
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we are most likely to see images of Black people that reinforce and reinscribe white supremacy
Constantly being desensitized and having assumptions and stereotypes reconfirmed
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the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
Reminds me of Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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