https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f Create as many short Padlet posts as you can and add them to the relevant columns on this Padlet. Important: in parentheses, after whatever you write, reference the page number where the info appeared in the book. Feel free to reference the names of the people interviewed in the book. en-us 2022-10-02 15:10:12 UTC 2022-10-05 17:44:34 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327966782 Woman was saying that she doesn't see race, but the author's point out that if you can't see race, you can't see racism...]]> 2022-10-05 17:00:30 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327966782 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327973061 "She was one of the five women who led the Civil Rights Movement." (84) 
Why do we only know the names of Rosa Park and MLK in the context of the Civil Rights Movement?]]> 2022-10-05 17:03:20 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327973061 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327973435 A family in Little rock has the same family working for them since slavery. ]]> 2022-10-05 17:03:30 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327973435 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327973875 How are people still not being educated about what gentrification is???]]> 2022-10-05 17:03:48 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327973875 cmoran81 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327974405 " its a negative thing, the mixing. Full blooded people have our pride." ]]> 2022-10-05 17:04:07 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327974405 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327975133 This completely contradicts what Yasna, Priya, and Winona found when they went to the research floor of the Oregon Historical society, how they found that Oregon was home to highest KKK membership per capita in the 20s. ]]> 2022-10-05 17:04:31 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327975133 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327975868 A mother not being able to go to the doctor until her breast cancer reached stage 4 because medical care is so expensive]]> 2022-10-05 17:04:56 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327975868 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327975919 sun down towns; white communities where people of color shouldn't be in when the sun goes down ]]> 2022-10-05 17:04:58 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327975919 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327976099 "No one even told me there's a Hispanic or Black community in the town. That's embarrassing!"
I can believe it, but am still slightly taken aback at how some white people view the world.

]]> 2022-10-05 17:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327976099 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327976190 There's a study about how within our city there's a life expectancy gap between the south and the north of town. That gap is 16.1 years.]]> 2022-10-05 17:05:08 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327976190 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327976806 This man was talking about how gatekeeping is actually really harmful, and if you are in the position to gatekeep then you have an unecessary power over others. (225)]]> 2022-10-05 17:05:28 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327976806 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327978591 lynching got its name from a man named William lynch who was a British slave owner]]> 2022-10-05 17:06:26 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327978591 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327978770 "By the 2010 census, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders made up 10 percent of the island population, yet 39 percent of the prison and jail population."]]> 2022-10-05 17:06:32 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327978770 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327979334 North central Arkansas home of KKK banished all Black people ]]> 2022-10-05 17:06:42 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327979334 dnguyen317 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327980176 ????? How can someone say this out loud and not care about how people will feel after hearing this]]> 2022-10-05 17:07:09 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327980176 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327980388 I knew about the alcohol abuse in the Native American community due to colonization but I had no idea the data included younger kids as well]]> 2022-10-05 17:07:19 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327980388 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327980959 Shelley said the word "pill" had 2 syllables and then got placed in special education for speech disorder. - Ivan ]]> 2022-10-05 17:07:41 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327980959 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327981413 "You could be the smartest person in the room, but if you don't have connections, and you don't have those opportunities to interact with people who hold those positions of power, you just won't get access to certain things," 

A lot of people have concluded that having connections has historically made you get far. In the time after the civil war when a lot of migrants were coming to the country, they would ask certain questions regarding your purpose for coming. If you didn't have family, a connection or money (especially money) in that city, you wouldn't get the same welcome. Germans who came before WW2 had connections since they had the time to plan their immigration whereas people escaping war or coming from the south did it in a rush to escape horrible treatments. ]]> 2022-10-05 17:07:55 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327981413 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327982725 OMG is an odd reaction to this statement, but it seems to be the most fitting of the options. The perceived innocence of the speaker through this statement allows them to hide their prejudice by comparing themselves to individuals who are relatively "worse" than they are, but fails to recognize that their prejudices are still bad.]]> 2022-10-05 17:08:40 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327982725 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327983045 After the Pearl Harbor bombings, everyone of "Japanese ancestry would be removed from the West Coast" (244). I have always been aware of this, but didn't realize the extent to which they were quite literally forced to leave everything they ever had behind (houses, shops, life of opportunities)]]> 2022-10-05 17:08:51 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327983045 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327983049 "The city of San Francisco tried to discriminate against Chinese Americans, because about 89 percent of the laundry workers were of Chinese descent. But then, a Chinese man named Yick Wo pressed the case and in 1886 won in the U.S. Supreme Court"]]> 2022-10-05 17:08:51 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327983049 cmoran81 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327983243 " The Tusla Race Riot of 1921 is an important event in Tusla history. Black walstreet, formally known as the wealthiest black neighborhood in the country, was looted and burned by White rioters." ]]> 2022-10-05 17:08:59 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327983243 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327984743 only about 17% of Pacific Islanders have a bachelors degree]]> 2022-10-05 17:09:55 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327984743 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327985715 Mahala's mother's side of the family cut off all contact with her once she married her father, who was African American. When Mahala was born and they found out she had light skin, freckles, and red hair, they suddenly wanted to gain contact with them again. I find it really heartbreaking that someone would cut off their family just because they married someone they loved who happened to be of another race.]]> 2022-10-05 17:10:34 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327985715 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327985951 This is honestly too common of a thing. Really? First of all, being racist towards your child's spouse, THEN refusing to be a grand-parent figure? Do better]]> 2022-10-05 17:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327985951 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327986125 17yo kid who was neurodivergent got dragged out of a courthouse before the verdict concerning a murder case was made official and taken down the road while repeatedly being stabbed and cut then forced to build a pyre under a tree that he was then hanged and roasted above while being dismembered limb from limb for 2 hours then whatever was left of his body was taken and dragged through the streets and this was witnessed by thousands upon thousands of people ranging from children to the elderly. ]]> 2022-10-05 17:10:46 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327986125 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327986172 "I know a lot of White people who just sit back and go, well, I don't see any people of color here, so it's not my fault that my friends are all White". Sick and tired of this! Majorities hide behind their majority-ness to justify their racism.]]> 2022-10-05 17:10:48 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327986172 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327986721 15 years after Brown v. Board of Education, Black students were finally able to enroll in any school in Cleveland, Mississippi.]]> 2022-10-05 17:11:04 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327986721 ibelobokov https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327986786 "Yet black children are less likely to be told they have disabilities, and to be treated for them, than otherwise similar White children."]]> 2022-10-05 17:11:08 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327986786 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327988240 "'Oh shoot, I can't play 'the Mexican card' in every challenge'."(222). 
Said in the context of being in a cooking competition and making mole for the first time. I think that it's sad that making dishes of your heritage would be thought of as playing any sort of card. It's shocking to me, because being able to make something that other people can't would be an advantage in a situation like that. Why should it matter that someone keeps making those types of dishes?
- Sheyla U.]]> 2022-10-05 17:11:58 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327988240 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327988293 "In 2017, the Anti-Defamation League reported the number of Anti-Semitic incidents were nearly 57% higher than in 2016." ]]> 2022-10-05 17:12:00 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327988293 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327988448 "Xernona Clayton, a Black woman, got the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan to leave the clan"]]> 2022-10-05 17:12:06 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327988448 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327988502 EXCUSE ME? Oh my god...]]> 2022-10-05 17:12:08 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327988502 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327988562 p 87 - As of 2017, 80% of 472 subway stops in NYC are inaccessible to persons with disabilities. ]]> 2022-10-05 17:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327988562 dnguyen317 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327989203 Later it said that her son didn't even know what the n word was, but the girl did. There's no way that the girl learned it on her own.]]> 2022-10-05 17:12:34 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327989203 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327989331 I learned what micronesians were. Theyre the latest of the immigrant population coming to hawai'i. They are seen as being "at the bottom of the totem pole" (231)]]> 2022-10-05 17:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327989331 cmoran81 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327989899 " I did not come out to my family. The came to the hospital after I survived an attempted murder, a trans hate crime. ]]> 2022-10-05 17:12:58 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327989899 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327990629 Pakistan's Bengali Genocide, Belgium's Congolese Genocide, Germany's Herero and Nama Genocide ]]> 2022-10-05 17:13:27 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327990629 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327992309 OMG in the context of this quote is meant for emphasizing that this is an important idea that should be given more attention; not, "OMG can you believe this," or "OMG this is insane." ]]> 2022-10-05 17:14:31 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327992309 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327992599 For context her father adopted her from the Philippines and gets heavy backlash from the racist community that she lives in. She comes out to her father and he disagrees and when she and her partner gets married he doesn't attend nor does he even acknowledge it.]]> 2022-10-05 17:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327992599 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327992743 "Well I wasn't talking about you"

I feel like it's so common for people to call something bad or that it shouldn't be done, yet create excuses for when their own group does the same thing. Similar to the mother in the quote, she specifically doesn't want immigrants unless they're white. She can just as easily say she doesn't want POC. ]]> 2022-10-05 17:14:48 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327992743 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327993215 ¨I cried my eyes out because I was terrified. There was no security. He could've just shot me. And no one would understand, like, ¨Oh he didn't mean it, don´t play the race card.¨]]> 2022-10-05 17:15:09 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327993215 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327994042 During their removal after the Pearl Harbor bombing, the Japanese descents were placed in poor living conditions. That alone is awful, but what makes it worse is that our president at the time, FDR, proudly referred to them as "concentration camps"---alluding to the holocaust. (245)]]> 2022-10-05 17:15:45 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327994042 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327994308 It's so sad to see people go through such turmoil because of the environment they were brought up in, in this case, for the person talking in the "Standing Alone" portion. This portion hits home to me because of the talk about "oh, go to the priest and all of your problems will be solved," even for mental illnesses. Her mother giving up her Native American side to fit in is sad, not just for the mother but also for the girl to not have an environment that was as accepting of her as a Native American one :(.]]> 2022-10-05 17:15:55 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327994308 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327994988 "The KKK saw a boost in its members in 2017. more than half of today's klans formed in the last 3 years"]]> 2022-10-05 17:16:21 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327994988 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327995271 "Many indigenous communities have histories of slave holding" ]]> 2022-10-05 17:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327995271 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327995656 Rosa Parks was supposed to be the plaintiff in a lawsuit, but because she had already been found guilty before, the case would go back to the city court (not the federal court) which is not what they wanted. Four other women testified in court after for what happened to them prior to Rosa Parks, but the head of Montgomery's NAACP chapter said that one of them was "too dark-skinned" and another was "too outspoken, not docile enough" to be the plaintiff (though the head didn't end up getting his way).]]> 2022-10-05 17:16:48 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327995656 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327996378 "Fewer than 12,000 people - much less than 1% of living Cherokees - speak the Cherokee language" (90). ]]> 2022-10-05 17:17:17 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327996378 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327996657 Morgan describes the segragation in her classes (not officially): regular classes are mostly Black and Hispanic, Pre-AP classes are mostly White and some Hispanic with a couple Black students, and AP classes are nearly all White or Asian. "We don't mix"
Though I understand this is just the statistics and observations at school, there is no effort to create a more diverse space or to change the "we don't mix" mindset into something more constructive.]]> 2022-10-05 17:17:29 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327996657 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327996687 After cities became more diverse, many white families moved to the suburbs. Today, different areas of the country are becoming increasingly racially homogeneous.]]> 2022-10-05 17:17:31 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327996687 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327997336 I remember in high school living in kentucky, the woman i dated was a black woman. My grandad saw her, and said, "Whos that little n-girl?" You cant legislate compassion.]]> 2022-10-05 17:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327997336 cmoran81 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327999465 " The Shriver Report found that if women were paid at the same rate as men, the poverty rate for women would be reduced by half. And in 2012, the U.S. economy would have produced $447.6 billion more in income-2.9 percent of GDP. ]]> 2022-10-05 17:19:15 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327999465 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327999546 The speaker in this section points out how hard it is to be able to stick to your culture at times. She points out that Whole Foods is referred to by brown people as "Whole Paycheck" because poor people cannot afford it. She also points out how it is not meant for brown people because it doesn't carry any of the primary ingredients of most of their dishes. It's awful how hard it is to find  parts of your culture in a place as basic as a grocery store. It's simply another way of keeping people separated.
Sheyla U]]> 2022-10-05 17:19:19 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327999546 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327999581 "Like, my church is mostly white, but I have gone to Black churches, and I like them, but I think everybody tends to just go where they're comfortable"
Implying that Black people make you uncomfortable. Why do they prefer one race church over the other? Why do we let this continue?

]]> 2022-10-05 17:19:21 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327999581 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327999720 "My dad had hypertension and diabetes, but didn't get the right advice from his physician, so he died much earlier than he had to". It's really sad that medical workers will often give less attention to POC, especially African Americans. Shermaine talks about how African Americans have the highest death rate for most cancers.]]> 2022-10-05 17:19:27 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2327999720 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328000004 "In the book all Native Americans are identified as savages, little brown mice, and they say that the Indian will eat you". ]]> 2022-10-05 17:19:38 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328000004 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328000005 The footnote: "To be nonracist implies passiveness (which can include being a bystander)... If you're privileged and passive, you're still part of the problem because you remain a beneficiary of an oppressive system."

This footnote reminded me of all those people and celebrities with the platform to say something about any type of oppression or racist acts. I think there are so many people with a massive amount of supporters who would share what they say and yet they're silent. At the end of the day, as the quote says, they would benefit at the end of the day. When it came to the BLM movement, the majority of the celebrities that showed active support were people of color. Those who didn't go to protests for the photos. ]]> 2022-10-05 17:19:38 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328000005 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328001281 19.6% of women were chefs in kitchens in 2015, even though they make up 54.2% of the food service industry.]]> 2022-10-05 17:20:31 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328001281 lnelson517 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328001381 "I met Ples soon after I lost my son, Tariq... He was lured to a bogus address by a youth gang. Tony was 14 years old and given a gun by the 18-year-old gang leader. In the initiation ritual, Tony shot and killed my son. He was only twenty years old." (pg.313)

This is absolutely horrific. I can't imagine the trauma, impact, and turmoil his parents must have felt. We're not as civilized as a society as we may think. Persecuting someone for their religious beliefs is beyond brutal. ]]> 2022-10-05 17:20:35 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328001381 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328002497 "Bisexuality does not exist"]]> 2022-10-05 17:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328002497 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328004335 "When I was thirteen, I had to capply for a certificate [to go on Native land], and I got rejected a bunch of times because I don't have the right amount of Native blood"]]> 2022-10-05 17:22:28 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328004335 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328004527 "You grew up in the church, I don't understand why now you go to college and all of a sudden you're LGBT?"
There are still people who think that merely sending someone to church is going to prevent them from identifying as whatever they want.]]> 2022-10-05 17:22:35 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328004527 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328005187 "There was an assumption that I would do well because my mom is Chinese. My mom always contacted my teacher to check on how I was doing, so she was stereotyped as a 'tiger mom'." (87) - an example of the model minority myth, assuming someone will do well in school just because they're Asian. The stereotypes also shock me because the speaker, Lauren, has a disability, and even if she didn't, just because her mother checks in on her doesn't mean she's a "tiger mom" at all. ]]> 2022-10-05 17:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328005187 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328005971 Heather's mother, believing that she had had to work hard as a white woman, never understood white privilege until she experienced it herself. How can we show everyone what white privilege is if it takes experience for white people to understand?]]> 2022-10-05 17:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328005971 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328006045 ¨Native Americans are incarcerated at a rate 38 percent higher than the national average... Native Americans are more likely to be killed by police than any other racial group.¨]]> 2022-10-05 17:23:43 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328006045 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328007655 "more than 120 drugs prescribed by physicians today were first made from plant extracts, and 75% of these were derived from examining plants used in traditional indigenous medicine" ]]> 2022-10-05 17:24:42 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328007655 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328007938 "If I was born in New York, I wouldn't be Black. But in Louisiana, if you have one drop of Black blood, you are black." (pg. 63). -- This was Louisiana law until 1983 that anyone with more than 1/32 of Black blood would be considered Black. 

However, the same person also says: 
"My birth certificate didn't label me as colored because I was born in a house, and my dad went to register my birth at the city hall, and since he didn't look Black, they didn't put "colored" on my birth certificate." (pg. 63). ]]> 2022-10-05 17:24:53 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328007938 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328009115 Typically, when we learn about discrimination, it regards African Americans and the limitations they face in life. What school doesn't teach us is that so many other races and ethnicities face large scale discrimination as well. For example, many Asian Americans were denied job offers after the Pearl Harbor bombing (247). ]]> 2022-10-05 17:25:37 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328009115 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328009188 "When my sisters were naming their babies, the first thing in consideration was, "Can they get a job with this name?" (155). It's so sad that someone's name can strongly impact how their future will turn out. On this page it says, "researchers found that White applicants receive 36 percent more callbacks than equally qualified African Americans" which is crazy!! An employer can decide whether or not you move on, just based on your name and how "black" or "white" it sounds]]> 2022-10-05 17:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328009188 lnelson517 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328009380 In the United States, 47 children and teens ages ZERO to 19 (and 342 total people) are shot EVERY DAY in murders, assaults, suicides, suicide attempts, unintentional shootings, and police intervention. Homicide is the SECOND LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH among U.S. fifteen - to twenty-four-year-olds. This is terrifying.]]> 2022-10-05 17:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328009380 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328009472 "55% of the 34.5 million Latinos in the United States identify as Catholic"]]> 2022-10-05 17:25:51 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328009472 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328010084 "Your destiny is kind of predetermined based on who you are. They hand PhDs to some people, but others have to give up a kidney to get a degree". Here, Shermaine talks about an advisor who was biased against her likely because of her skin color. She was trying to get a PhD and eventually a job, but this advisor was preventing her from doing so. It made me angry because he had so much power over her and she couldn't do anything about the situation.]]> 2022-10-05 17:26:14 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328010084 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328011694 "There are people who understand the differences, and then there are people who are - it's the whole, "I'm not racist" thing, you know? "Oh, I'm not racist." "I have a Black friend," or "I listen to Black music," and it's like, no!""]]> 2022-10-05 17:27:16 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328011694 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328011793 I can't believe how different the different "sides" of politics are. This quote was delivered by a right leaning republican during the first Bush administration. How do you have to view a certain group to vouch for something like this?
- Sheyla U]]> 2022-10-05 17:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328011793 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328012088 Deb's abusive boyfriend ("a very White-looking Mexican") called the cops on her, and all he had to say was "She has a mental illness" for her to be poorly treated by the police:
"And I felt like I didn't get the patient treatment that I've seen mentally ill White women get."
After 20 years of never getting in trouble, she was facing domestic violence charges and wasn't given a chance to defend herself.]]> 2022-10-05 17:27:33 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328012088 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328012546 ¨Throughout my life, people have this weird delusion that they need to try and cheer me up about my disability. The world had an issue with me. It made me uncomfortable so much in my life, until I was maybe 24.¨]]> 2022-10-05 17:27:52 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328012546 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328013306 "He won this award in our eighth grade class for being a cool person, and I think it shows we have a lot of respect in Whitefish for different cultures,"

I get what he's trying to say but I feel like just by the demographic of a primarily white town, you can tell there's a reason there's such a small amount of people of color. His community, which is a small part of the town does not show the whole town. ]]> 2022-10-05 17:28:23 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328013306 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328014594 "what really bothers me is that that teacher had been teaching for so long, and so many kids had gotten that coloring page"
Once kids get older they don't usually get coloring pages so this teacher was teaching racism to YOUNG children.]]> 2022-10-05 17:29:04 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328014594 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328015399 And i was probably the only woman of color there that was not a nanny. And i was working with just the most privileged children in the world, and i was being called the n-word by strangers on the street.]]> 2022-10-05 17:29:38 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328015399 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328034269 Footnote: "... promise in 1865 to give every freed Black family forty acres of land. What we don't learn about is that President Andrew Johnson reversed it after Lincoln was killed and gave the land back to former Confederate owners." 

I feel like history classes always end up leaving out a detail that paints a president to be a bad person. These are the types of things we should know. We should know that even after there was some progress it was taken away as soon as possible, every step forward was three steps back. ]]> 2022-10-05 17:42:06 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328034269 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328035525 It's just hair. It's not just hair though. I don't understand how something as trivial as hair could ever be thought of as a distraction or inconvenience, especially when it is such an important part of one's culture. ]]> 2022-10-05 17:42:54 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328035525 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328037982 "In the end Jasmine got it. I didn't. My mom said things like, 'Don't worry, Karli, it was just because she's Black, it's just because she's mixed"'(159). It's appalling that a grown woman told her daughter that her friend only got in because she's black. She's the reason that racism gets passed on through generations and why inequalities and prejudice continue to spread. ]]> 2022-10-05 17:44:34 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/elum64flu0cgix7f/wish/2328037982