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Undocumented kids don’t belong in cages

      As we all know Trumps administration began deporting a lot of undocumented families and making the impossible for undocumented people to be able to work and succeed in the united states.

          There have been many reports about children in “detention centers” which is just another word for jail (for children and families that are undocumented) that have been mistreated and been treated worst than imitates with felonies. Just as Claudia Koerner a BuzzFeed News reporter interviewed a kid who said “I’m hungry here at Clint [detention center] all the time. I’m so hungry that I have woken up in the middle of the night with hunger. Sometimes I wake up from hunger at 4 a.m., sometimes at other hours. I’m too scared to ask the officials here for any more food, even though there is not enough food here for me.“ Kids are being separated from their families; they are not being treated like the children they are.

          These kids are being forced to take responsibility for things they don’t even know they were responsible for. The kids are sleeping in the worst of conditions are given the poorest medical attention.

          A Guatemalan mother whose daughter died because of a virus that was mistreated in the detention center is now failed a claim against the us government said that “she begged medical staff for help, only to watch the giggly child turn weak, feverish, thin.” These kids and families are being treated so inhumanly that there is no excuse for the government. There are kids being left to sleep on cement benches because of the overcrowding of children in these detention centers.

Resources;

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/claudiakoerner/children-border-detention-conditions-immigrants-hungry

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/kids-in-cages-house-hearing-to-examine-immigration-detention-as-democrats-push-for-more-information/2019/07/10/3cc53006-a28f-11e9-b732-41a79c2551bf_story.html

Color blindness and its brainless excuse

      In America a term that has been becoming popular over the time is they’re “color blind” or they don’t “see color” all though a lot of people use this term to get themselves out of trouble they make their situation worst. Worst in a way that they try to make it seem as if they don’t have a side, they don’t have any type of preference over any race. But instead they chose to turn their head to the other side when they see discrimination, when they see something wrong, they decide to not do anything to stand up and talk about it.

              The fact that people try to use the word “color blind” or the phrase “I don’t see color” is a nice idea but the fact that you can obviously distinguish color doesn’t change anything. What people should then do is control the way they interact with the races. Just as the article “Why The ‘I Don’t See Color’ Mantra Is Hurting Your Diversity And Inclusion Efforts” they say how instead of trying to not see color we should “ recognize that each of us, no matter our color, have preconceived notions and expectations about different racial groups. Recognition and acknowledgment are crucial.”

          This is something to take away and really think of the ways that we can improve society and really stop thinking of being in a make-believe world that is something that probably won’t happen, but we can change our way of thinking.

Resources;

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/color-blindness-is-counterproductive/405037/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2019/02/15/why-the-i-dont-see-color-mantra-is-hurting-diversity-and-inclusion-efforts/#7c2803fc2c8d

https://www.google.com/search?q=i+don%27t+see+color&safe=strict&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS863US863&sxsrf=ACYBGNQeOm3ahWE19uSGRMPD2F8-VGYYKQ:1575862998513&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiwvvaR06fmAhXTu54KHbTkDRMQ_AUoAXoECAwQAw&biw=1366&bih=657#imgrc=edNLPOLldsKnyM:

What is “Equality” For Women in America

      According to the “WEF estimates that it will take the United States another 208 years to reach gender equality” says USA today. Starting off with this said, its more than obvious that American still has a long way to go to gain gender equality. For women in the United States this is more than sad. Sad because there have been many struggles to get to the point of where we’re at, and still have a long way to go. All though women get higher college degrees they’re still viewed in a nonprofessional way. People don’t take women seriously; they don’t think of women being capable of doing these things.

          USA today reported that “On the political front, women are 51% of the U.S. population, but hold only 24% of seats in Congress.”  Which gives to mean that mean that Women are still being seen as less than a man. Women could hold a lot of power even more than men is this why because they’re afraid we will overpower them? Women everywhere we go we are always getting cat called, assaulted, and raped. Not saying this cannot happen to men also but it is something that is very common for women and we have had awareness about this, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s still happening.

Overall, I think gender equality still has a long way to go, but there will always be something that will never make it equal.

Resources;

https://time.com/longform/gender-equality-america/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/06/21/equality-for-women-cant-wait-208-years-melinda-gates-column/1511613001/

The ignorance of White privilege amongst whites

      Something that I have noticed from my own experiences is that there’s a few whites that are poor and born into unhealthy families. But my main question is why? Why is it that they’re poor? Is it because they don’t want to succeed? In all this I came across an article of New York Times, talking about a story of a black women asking a white male about his privilege. As soon as the women proceeded to ask about his privilege, he denied it. He said he had worked for everything he has.  As well as there’s many white men and women who do work for the things, they want the real question is how hard did you have to work for it? Obviously, it couldn’t have been harder for them than a person of color. The system is set up to favoritism of white people. So how hard did you really have to work? In case of them being a person of color would they even gotten as far as they are now if the worked the same hard as they did when they were white?

          How often do you see a white person being pulled over? How many times do you see a cop pointing a gun at a white person? How many times do white people have to fear for their life when they’re being pulled over even when they have done nothing wrong? And the answer to that is NEVER. White people these are things that play a huge part of privilege and they want to make it seem like they didn’t have any? Owning up to it is a start to changing this world and realizing not everyone has the same opportunities and chances as everyone.

Sources;

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/magazine/white-men-privilege.html

White privilege and unpacking the invisible knapsack

      All though there are many economic unhealthy whites, most of them use their white privilege without realizing it. As Peggy McIntosh decided to unpack some of the privilege, she has a white woman in America.

1. I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.

2. I can avoid spending time with people whom I was trained to mistrust and who have learned to

mistrust my kind or me.

3. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can

afford and in which I would want to live.

4. I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me.

5. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.

6. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely

represented.

7. When I am told about our national heritage or about "civilization,” I am shown that people of my

color made it what it is.

8. I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their

race.

9. If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege.

10. I can be pretty sure of having my voice heard in a group in which I am the only member of my race.

11. I can be casual about whether or not to listen to another person’s voice in a group in which s/he is the

only member of his/her race.

12. I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket

and find the staple foods which fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser’s shop and find

someone who can cut my hair.

13. Whether I use checks, credit cards or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work against the

appearance of financial reliability.

Sources;

https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf