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www.colorado.edu www.colorado.edu
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Perhaps by the time you’re reading this, a new normalcy has set in
no normal is the new normal
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Shared earnings agreement:
This is the structure that me and my business partner have with our investors
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crowdfunding
i've seen crowdfunding sources like kickstarter and indigo flourish with success and backing within the last decade. It's actually how a lot of my favorite products (backpacks, laser engravers) were able to be created for me to fund and purchase
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value not for the users so much as for the investors and the future acquirers.
the leaders only care about the profits of themselves and other leaders. This is an example of a power-driven individual.
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Experts predict that 40 percent of Black-owned businesses will permanently close their doors
The U.S wants this to happen to that they can divide people even more, bringing a modern day "separate but equal" rule. 40% is a horrifying number
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more than 40 percent of Black business owners reported they weren’t working in April, compared to 17 percent of White small business owners.
not a coincidence
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less than 3 percent of founders getting venture capital are Black or Latinx;
much much lower than I anticipated. I was going to say more around 8%.
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because their identity puts them at a disadvantage with largely White and male investors
the oppression of people of color has lead to continuous discrimination amongst black people who try to make their own start-up.
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inst-fs-iad-prod.inscloudgate.net inst-fs-iad-prod.inscloudgate.net
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We might begin with critical pedagogy and popular education,
This what I find a problem with most design classes I have actually. Yes, learning the history of the field is 100% critical in having a more deep understanding. But, I find that if you incorporate the history later on, and highlight ways that really engage the students with incredibly modern and relatable examples, they'll be more inclined to learn about the history because they're more invested in the material when they have a real sense of connection to the topic.
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Social movements and community-based organizations have been working to resist oppressive policies and imagine better futures for generations.
there are a lot of issues in the world that are not highlighted, and essentially forgotten about. I find it morally unjust when big named companies don't do more for the world. I.e my carbon negative plan highlighted in my last annotation.
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Consider your negative impact
something that me and my team plan on doing in the next 10 years is going completely carbon negative by working together with carbon teams. We want to try to be a leading standard in the fashion industry that shows other companies how they should be helping deal with the growing climate crisis
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Consider the ways in which the images you commission/select/create can reinforce white supremacy, cis- and heteronormativity, cultural appropriation, fatphobia, and so on.
This year has made a lot of people check their privileged and become educated on race problems in our country.
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All aspects of politics have undeniably been reshaped by digital technologies.
trump 2016 election as an obvious example
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Define a set of principles by which you will work
this is something I have done with my clothing company. I have been able to lay a set of principles thats based around the ideal of affordability and mass production so that everyone can get the highest quality at a reasonable price.
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Indeed, customers hardly help in understanding possible radical changes in product meanings.
design-driven innovation seems to be based on what the consumer doesn't know they need added/changed to the product.
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This does not refer to “fashionable” or stylish products but rather to products that may contribute to the definition of new aesthetic standards
fashionable and aesthetic are not the same thing. Fashionable refers the clothes that you dress yourself in, typically the most popular clothing that is in at the time. Aesthetic is a part of your look that represents your personality and interest. for example, tattoos, piercings, clothing, accessories, posture, pose, and more all add to ones aesthetic.
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new experience
This new experience is what grabbed so many of the new investors of the iPod. It was such a different modern take on a product that everyone was used to
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Or consider the Apple iPod, whose success, largely acknowledged and debated, is not simply due to its stylish form; indeed, before the iPod, there were already several other competing MP3 players with a much more stylish language in line with the dominant design language at that time
this was one of my earliest concepts in design-driven innovation, even though I didn't realize it at the time. Me and my dad bought a family iPod and it was the coolest thing we've ever seen, even though we had MP3 players as well. I literally haven’t picked up an MP3 since.
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As watches were considered to be jewels in the 1950s and 1960s and moved to be considered time instruments in the 1970s
this is an example of how the products values change over time, going from a jewel to an instrument to actually tell time.
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called aesthetic and style.
this concept is heavily prevalent in my generation. Aesthetic is a termed thrown around loosely now a days.
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This €1.5 million project, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research and coordinated by Politecnico di Milano, involved 17 research teams in Italy and developed 74 case studies of successful product innovations in several different industries.
The way that Italy goes about their research for design-driven innovation is something the rest of the world needs to take from more. They're the most invested in trying to find the best designs.
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We therefore need new lenses to activate a stream of studies on this relevant and unsolved matter and to improve our capability of understanding how breakthrough innovation led by design occurs.
design-driven research is all about looking at products through a different perspective.
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something to make products look better
finally, design is now not only thought about through looking nicer, but rather their purpose/performance as well
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by observing them as they use existing products and by tracking their behavior in consumption processes.
social media has exponentially helped companies observe their customers/potential customers.
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user‐centered design
the idea that the design is thought about with the user experience as the main interest.
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lithub.com lithub.com
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I’ve also written about survival, and we survive by coming together
this idea is constantly construed by the media. When people are in a natural disaster, they all help one another. Next time I watch the news I'm going to observe how they display certain events.
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But belief lags behind, and often the worst behavior in the wake of a calamity is on the part of those who believe that others will behave savagely and that they themselves are taking defensive measures against barbarism.
this is how the media is able to persuade the public to believe that people act like "savages" during disaster. as pointed out, this is the exact opposite of the truth. But with power like these media outlets have, they're able to create ignorance in those who can afford to have it.
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What you believe shapes how you act
and what you believe is made up by "the great leaders of this country"; come to find out the leaders of this country are the most despicable people there are.
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Katrina was an extreme version of what goes on in many disasters,
It's important to remember that this happens all the time when disaster hits areas in the U.S. just because Katrina got the most news coverage at the time, doesn't mean this doesn't happen on a smaller scale as well.
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Those rumors led soldiers and others dispatched as rescuers to regard victims as enemies
Unbelievable that the media outlets put out these messages about the people of New Orleans. They did this so they continue to spread this message of division within the US. these statements made by the media outlets were blatantly false in order for victims to be looked upon as enemies; that's the U.S government in a nutshell.
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decided that the people of New Orleans were too dangerous
disgusting use of the word dangerous by the government officals. They're considering them dangerous because a large number of black people live in New Orleans.
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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contracts totalling $3.4bn.
Everyone took advantage of New Orleans. Learning more about this has been eye opening.
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Also notable is the determination to use any opportunity to strengthen the hand of the oil and gas industry.
back to the basic desire to profit off oil
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They were replaced with condos and town houses priced far out of reach for most who had lived there.
This is how the government continued to destroy these communities after he disaster.
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was in New Orleans during the flooding and I saw for myself how amped up the police and military were
I believe police are not necessary, but in a situation like this, it baffles me why the military needed to be heavily deployed in a natural disaster area.
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Fox News and other media outlets seized on this to paint New Orleans’s black residents as dangerous “looters” who would soon be coming to invade the dry, white parts of the city and surrounding suburbs and towns. Buildings were spray-painted with messages: “Looters will be shot.”
This backs my earlier claim that the news outlets spread false news about the residents. They turned the victims into criminals.
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People helped each other as best they could. They rescued each other in canoes and rowboats. They fed each other. They displayed that beautiful human capacity for solidarity that moments of crisis so often intensify. But at the official level, it was the complete opposite.
the government wants to paint humans as having this natural behavior that whem disaster strikes, everyone starts to form a mob mentality; everyone for themselves. This is what the media would spread to its audience. This couldn't be further from the truth, and this act of solidarity by the people of New Orleans is a perfect example of this.
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That failure was the result of two main factors.
Proves my last annotation. This was actually done on purpose by the government in order to profit from the disaster; disgusting.
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That’s relevant, because a tropical storm should never have broken through New Orleans’s flood defence.
this shows how underprivileged areas are treated so disproportionally to the rest of the state/country.
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surveillance industry
the exponential expansion of the surveillance industry is a growing cause for concern. Even though the amount of surveillance that we are already governed with is terrifying in itself.
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the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security by more than $80bn in just one year.
The U.S spends more money on their military than the following 7 leading countries combined.
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President Donald Trump has weaponised the revolving door by appointing defence contractors and lobbyists to key government positions as he seeks to rapidly expand the military budget and homeland security programmes … At least 15 officials with financial ties to defence contractors have been either nominated or appointed so far.
ties to my last two annotations
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US military
Leaders tend to always militarize everything that they can. For example, gun powder was not made to use in guns and explosives. It was initially used in Western culture to burn crops when the soil and land need to be replenished for new crops.
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Trump appointed as deputy defence secretary Patrick Shanahan, a top executive at Boeing who, at one point,
Trump brought onto his team, business men whose only interest is profiting for themselves. Because that's exactly what Trump does.
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They leave their homes and look for places to live where they can feed themselves and their families.
Yes but the problem with the climate crisis is that once we exhaust all of our resources and change the makeup of the atmosphere, we won't have anywhere else to go. This is why Musk has moved towards colonizing Mars. But then you get into the question, we're humans meant to continually colonize and destroy all land we come in contact with?
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but what he said next was revealing: “as a species”, humans have always adapted
this is how a majority of Baby Boomers have thought about the situation. Even when I have presented the climate crisis to people in their 50s, they usually tell me the same answer; that we will adapt. At no fault of their own, they were just conditioned to think this way by the generation they grew up with. But this is not the case, and younger generations know this; climate change is a real issue and if we don't start to reverse it in the upcoming years we won't survive as a species.
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ExxonMobil profited more than any oil major from the increase in the price of oil that was the result of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
U can trace back almost every single world conflict back to the desire of oil.
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Shock tactics follow a clear pattern: wait for a crisis (or even, in some instances, as in Chile or Russia, help foment one), declare a moment of what is sometimes called “extraordinary politics”, suspend some or all democratic norms – and then ram the corporate wishlist through as quickly as possible.
this happens on all scales of disaster, not just cases like Katrina. But the same groups of people are always affected; people of color, mostly black communities.
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One of those moments arrived in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, as I watched hordes of private military contractors descend on the flooded city to find ways to profit from the disaster, even as thousands of the city’s residents, abandoned by their government, were treated like dangerous criminals just for trying to survive.
Media outlets were one of the people to profit from Hurricane Katrina. They categorized the victims of the disaster "dangerous" by promoting fake stories saying that there have been mass rapes and murders in areas of New Orleans.
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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By this time next year, mutual aid might still be organized online.
I also believe this will be prominently online in a year, and potentially continuing after COVID
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mutual-aid groups have been started in at least 44 states and Washington, D.C
Mutual aid groups are making its way across the country as more people want to help those around them.
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had to grapple with the contrast between their values and the incentives of the companies that host them
this is where I'll argue against traditional capitalism because of the amount of power that these corporations have on society, and in turn social issues. Someone once defined true evil as someone who has enough power to help amend social issues and doesn't. That's exactly what most of these corporations do; nothing.
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Mutual-aid groups—community-level organizations coordinating to deliver groceries, pick up prescriptions, and find financial support for people affected by the pandemic—
the use of social media in order to bring people together to help solve social issues is a great way these platforms are being utilized.
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A group in Bed-Stuy, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, held Slack tutorials to teach people who had never used the software in a work setting how to use it to volunteer time and money.
This is what should be done in all underprivileged areas in America. I'm a fan of what Brooklyn does for its communities; the Brooklyn Bail Fund is a great cause that helps people who cannot afford bail or a lawyer for petty crimes, this typically ends in them taking a plea deal, even if their not guilty.
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www.noemamag.com www.noemamag.com
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and there will be a next pandemic
very important
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At our end of the century-long era of Chronos ascendant, pandemic time can be understood as a liminal passage between the end of the industrial era and the beginning of the digital era
time being governed on the internet
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The only questions are how willingly they do so and how large of a final harvest of souls they will offer up to Chronos as an exit tax as they pass from his century-long realm.
Amazing analogy
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but it is also capable of manifesting, on occasion, powerful and anomalous global risks and opportunities, in the form of tsunamis or storm surges.
has manifested itself in the form of something we're unfamiliar of; a pandemic. As opposed to others that they mention like tsumanis
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Chronos was the primary Greek god of time, ancestor of the modern figure of Father Time, or Death, in the West, lord of clocks, corpses and the 20th century.
love greek mythology. Just highlighted this to keep note of
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“—you advance twice—”“Each with a lobster as a partner!” cried the Gryphon.“Of course,” the Mock Turtle said: “advance twice, set to partners—”“—change lobsters, and retire in same order,” continued the Gryphon.“Then, you know,” the Mock Turtle went on, “you throw the—”“The lobsters!” shouted the Gryphon, with a bound into the air.“—as far out to sea as you can—”“Swim after them!” screamed the Gryphon.
incredible analogy. Unlike anything I;'ve heard before, and yet it makes so much sense. If I understand this correctly, the lobster is supposed to be the virus.
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be it a pandemic or an exploding star, hits a boundary.
typing back to initial claim of super nova
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imaginary clock
trump administration single handedly ruined this country with the way in which it was handled.
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cops
I don't believe cops are essential. I don't think they're even needed in general. EMS, firefighters and other first respondents are essential. Cops are not. But unfortunately they are considered essential because of how the government has deemed them as that.
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“essential”
I love how the author puts quotations over essential. Things are only categorized as essential by the government, someone who has made us believe that these services are essential.
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For them, pandemic time has been something of a return to 19th-century work-life rhythms, shaped by the collocation of childcare activities and economic production.
returning to the earlier statement that everyone experiences COVID in some way. Different people experience different ways of life during the pandemic. I like the example they used is people who work and also have kids experience a world similar to that of the 19th century.
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Social distancing, the unavoidable response to an inescapable threat, is what created the siege-like experience of pandemic time.
the origin of pandemic time can be traced back to social distancing
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local experience of pandemic time is determined by the effectiveness of the containment model chosen by your local government.
I personally don't believe we should've left this down to local governments; Places like Los Angeles, Michigan, and Florida for example all decided to opens bars up way too early, which infected an immense amount of people across their state.
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in an entirely predictable way,
Incredibly frustrating that our country ignored all these signs, resulting in us loosing hundreds of thousands of lives. The worst part is knowing how preventable it was
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the pandemic broke out in culturally distant China marked it initially as a story happening to other people, which arguably played a role in shaping the responses.
very interesting to see how the people of the world reacted when the problem didnt immediately effect them. From personal experience, I saw that people didn't think it was a big deal, even during quarentine, even now. This is evident with the anti-maskers. COVID hasn't personally affected them for whatever reason. Because of this, they don't think they need to abide by the guidelines and laws because they are
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a skinny web of arrows pointing from current events in some places to future events in other places.
more analytical way to think about outbreak zones
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COVID-19, unlike the Iran hostage crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall, 9/11, the 2008 financial crisis or even SARS, is a story happening to 7.5 billion people almost simultaneously, in their homes (except, of course, for the homeless).
this is why this pandemic is unlike anything we have ever face before. the entire world was put up against the wall. no longer can people just watch and sympathize with those who experience it. Everyone in the world experiences this but in different ways
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Betelgeuse is what is known as a variable star — a natural clock in the sky that exhibits a complex, imperfectly predictable pattern of dimming and brightening driven by multiple loosely related stellar phenomena, much like the seasonal flu here on Earth.
This is a very interesting comparsion to the flue season. highlighted because I wanted to remember this metaphor.
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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I want to create viable products that can compete in the marketplace, so I can extract as much resources as possible and redirect them to communities that need them the most.
smart approach for bringing in more revenue. Since his profits are going to black communities, he just wants everyone possible to buy the salt so they can raise the most money.
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Infant mortality in the black community is higher than white infant mortality,
as well as maternal mortality during birth. Black women are much more likely to die while/after giving birth.
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I don’t think money is a solution. I do believe that not having money is a problem
very ironic what this world has turned the idea of money into.
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This shit is crazy, and I can’t continue to do the work that I said I could do. You can’t make concessions, because any concessions you make will help you forget or ignore that a radical system can hardly exist in a conventional space.”
going back to Pandemic Time, this unprecedented circumstance has caused people to completely change things that were once capable of doing.
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how it’s a black city, the food is black, the folks that visit there come for all that black shit, but black chefs don’t get the attention. They don’t get the awards. They don’t get the same recognition as white chefs, which they are due.
I wrote a paper last year about cultural appropriation with food. its a very difficult topic, but this is the exact definition of cultural appropriation; a cultural group who has been oppressed for the things that they celebrate within their culture, now being used for profit by people not from those cultures. These people that capitalize on this are usually white people because of the privilege ledge that they obtain.
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If everyone had access to health care, housing, leisure, education for their children, education for themselves—all these things I think are rights—and if all these things they had access to were of high quality, I’m sure some business owners wouldn’t even return to ownership.
I agree with this statement
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What’s more true is that privilege and power become invisible when you have them.
Unfortunately true
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It’s sort of like saying that because we don’t have socialized mental-health care in this country, that prisons and jails are the closest things we have to that, and so if we close down prisons and jails, we’re leaving these folks no option but to be on the street.
this is an amazing analogy
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A preferred medium is the price tag: in New Orleans, where he currently lives, he once ran a lunch cart that asked white patrons to pay more than double what he charged people of color, reflecting the city’s racial income disparities. In Nashville, he hosted a series of dinners where hot chicken was free for the neighborhood’s black residents, while white diners were asked to pledge a hundred dollars for one piece, a thousand dollars for four, and the deed to a property for a whole bird plus sides.
I absolutely love this concept that he did
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www.npr.org www.npr.org
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given how few white people have nonwhite friends.
The fact that 75% of white Americans only are friends with white people is an insane statistic to learn about. Very disheartening
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Now it feels conspicuous to NOT be sharing a post, linking to places to donate, etc. [A repeated] claim I'm seeing from white friends is 'notice who of your friends is not posting right now.' "
yes, this is a valid point, but I think personally think people trying to spread immense amounts of information can be disrespectful to those going through these insane hardships. By constantly putting things on their story, they are taking the attention away from the problems against the black community and they are making it about them; the white person. It comes off as "look at how great and smart I am, I know so much about this topic, let me enlighten you." this completely takes away from the focus of the people who endure horrible treatment, and turns it into a white person trying to show how much they know about the topic. So many people I see on instagram did that, and it came off not good in the eyes of the public.
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which my privilege had allowed me to tune out to some degree before
people are now realizing their own privilege and what that even means
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Some people said straightforwardly that the moment has caused them to worry about their physical and economic well-beings, and the lockdown had taken away many of the distractions that allowed them to ignore inequality.
there were multiple factors that lead to the more widespread message of inequality.
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as many of them were putting it in their posts on the platform
I observe my generations social media usage all the time, and from my observations, majority of the people that posted that black square on instagram, were white and completely uneducated on racism in America. They did it to be "trendy".
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Some major shift appears to be happening with a large cohort of white people. But why now?
my personal observations of why this got so much more attention with white people because it seems like so many people were uneducated against racism in the United States towards the black community. also the fact a lot of people are doing this to be "trendy" which is completely messed up and wrong.
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