A question I continuously revisit is if increased surveillance truly makes a population feel safe. Does the camera on every corner, police car in every lot, and metal detectors in schools actually make community members and students feel safer? I remember being in the 5th grade, and constantly worried about getting caught doing something wrong, […]
Monthly Archives: July 2020
What Do You Want For Your Kids? Sign the Petition!
We aren’t asking to hobble administrators and leave teachers unable to manage their classrooms. We aren’t looking for anarchy. We are asking administrators and parents to remember that students are children. We are asking for a sensible vision that teaches children how to relate to each other with empathy. Data suggests and we know in our […]
First Name, Last Name
I am sick and tired. Actually, I have reached a point where I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. Over the 4th of July weekend, there was an attempted lynching. If you did not know, the last “recorded” lynching, emphasis on recorded, occurred in Mobile, Alabama; Michael Donald, 19 years old, […]
Intersectionality, Intensification, and Introspection
Since the rise of COVID-19, we have seen a national push for responses in areas in which neglect has occurred nationally. COVID-19 in the United States has led to deaths, intensification of trauma, and the widespread recognition of the racial disparities within the United States. Although these disparities are nothing new, it has garnered a […]
Students Are The Future. The Future Is Students
The pandemic of racism has plagued African Americans for over four hundred years, increasing in intensity and mutating into different forms throughout this time; therefore, racism did not magically invent itself when an African American father was killed, so it appalls me when Americans say that now, today, made them aware of African American’s plight […]