https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e en-us 2020-03-15 16:32:11 UTC 2025-12-05 13:34:34 UTC hello@padlet.com 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461110395 How do different backgrounds shape different people? ]]> 2020-03-15 16:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461110395 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461110476 2020-03-15 16:32:31 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461110476 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461113237 Starr Carter, a 16-year-old black girl was inspired to raise her voice in her community after her very close childhood friend, Khalil, was shot and killed right in front of her by a white officer for driving "suspiciously". The murder takes the news rapidly and the media spins the story to make Khalil out as a drug dealer who provoked the police officer. The jury fails to reach a guilty verdict for the officer who killed Khalil. The neighborhood responds to the jury with a series of peaceful protests and Starr steps up to become a public figure in addressing the case of brutality. She joins more protests controlled by police officers with riot gear. In school, some racist remarks are made to her that question the persona she has developed in the mainly white boarding school she attends. Starr continues to stand up for what she believes is right as she vowed to keep the memory of Khalil alive by always standing up against racial injustice. Out of the tragedy she and her community has gone through and by help from her family and friends, she can turn the horrible memory of the death of her good friend into good.]]> 2020-03-15 16:36:31 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461113237 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461127680 “Funny. Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” Same shit, different century. I wish people like them would stop thinking that people like me need saving.” ]]> 2020-03-15 16:56:01 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461127680 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461128000 “I’ve seen it happen over and over again: a black person gets killed just for being black, and all hell breaks loose. I’ve Tweeted RIP hashtags, reblogged pictures on Tumblr, and signed every petition out there. I always said that if I saw it happen to somebody, I would have the loudest voice, making sure the world knew what went down. Now I am that person, and I’m too afraid to speak.” ]]> 2020-03-15 16:56:27 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461128000 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461130210 "Momma fussed and told Daddy I was too young for that. He argued that I wasn't too young to get arrested or shot."]]> 2020-03-15 16:59:48 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461130210 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461165452 2020-03-15 17:50:57 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461165452 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461168413 Justyce is an intelligent young black man living a very challenging life. He attends a white prep school on scholarship and excels in and out of class. His family lives in poverty and is surrounded with local criminals. Before graduation Justyce and his friend Manny are stopped by the police and Manny has no worry while Justyce gets very panicky. Manny doesn't understand why Justyce is so scared by the police and that is when Justyce realizes that even his black friends don't quiet understand the way life for him is. As the police comes up he draws out a gun and murders Manny. Justyce decides that he should unite the poor and wealthy black Americans into a sense of community, but one day he gets arrested at school and and framed for the murder of Manny by the police who actually shot Manny. While awaiting trial, he reads the writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other members of civil rights messages. Justyce realizes he is a martyr for the continuation of racial injustice and systemic racism. As time goes on the truth finally comes out about the death of Manny and Justyce is freed. He later goes to Yale.]]> 2020-03-15 17:55:09 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461168413 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461187791 “Yeah, there are no more “colored” water fountains, and it’s supposed to be illegal to discriminate, but if I can be forced to sit on the concrete in too-tight cuffs when I’ve done nothing wrong, it’s clear there’s an issue. That things aren’t as equal as folks say they are.” ]]> 2020-03-15 18:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461187791 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461189612 “That idiot ‘pundit’ would rather believe you and Manny were thugs than believe a twenty-year veteran cop made a snap judgment based on skin color. He identifies with the cop. If the cop is capable of murder, it means he’s capable of the same. He can’t accept that.” ]]> 2020-03-15 18:28:02 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461189612 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461192684 "Getting real with you, I feel a little defeated. Knowing there are people who don’t want me to succeed is depressing." ]]> 2020-03-15 18:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461192684 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461193133 "Mad Libs: Black Death Edition" by Charlotte Abotsi ]]> 2020-03-15 18:33:39 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461193133 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461209272 Charlotte Abotsi preforms this slam poem and places accents on how frequent black deaths are occurring alongside the police by delivering police reports, news articles, and Facebook statuses that all sound so familiar at this point. All you had to do was fill in the blanks.]]> 2020-03-15 18:58:31 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461209272 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461990509 2020-03-16 15:51:39 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461990509 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461996658 2020-03-16 15:56:12 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461996658 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461997823 2020-03-16 15:57:01 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/461997823 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/462022386 John legend tweets about unfair treatment by police multiple times after seeing a video of 25 year-old Chikesia Clemons, wrestled inside a waffle house by police after refusing to pay an extra 50 cents for plastic utensils. John legend tweets as he feels black people are targeted by police and can get shot for just living their life and doing nothing wrong.  This can causes black people to live in fear. ]]> 2020-03-16 16:15:22 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/462022386 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/462052096 2020-03-16 16:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/462052096 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/462082382 In the podcast, Gene Demby and Rachel Martin talk about statistics that showed that 92% of African-Americans that surveyed said they have felt discrimination themselves or they've seen it happen to others like them. Demby continues and states "Well, you can see discrimination against African-Americans everywhere. It's backed up by the data. You can see it in housing and policing. Black people, for example, live in areas with more concentrated poverty, even when they are higher earners. Black Americans are more likely to go to segregated and underfunded schools, more likely to be stopped by the police and more likely to be searched once they are stopped." This shows the unfair treatment of blacks and how there's even data for it. It also shows that these people aren't getting equal opportunities as others as they are usually living in impoverished places or attending less fortunate schools which could cause someone to have a worse education or have fewer opportunities in sports, music, etc.  ]]> 2020-03-16 16:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/462082382 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/462215005 2020-03-16 18:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/462215005 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/462218783 For a long time, black people haven't been treated the same as white people and the lyrics "we slaves in the '40s, still, slaves in the present" demonstrate how people feel like things haven't changed. When it says "White man kill a black man, they never report us black man kill a white man, they gon' start a war up" it shows again that black people feel as if they're treated unfairly by police and that something that a white person does and won't get in trouble for is something that a black person would get in huge trouble for. In The Hate U Give, the officer that killed Khalil wasn't even pleaded guilty at first. If the roles were reversed and a black man shot a white man then there would be no question about it at all and I'm sure the black man would go straight to jail. ]]> 2020-03-16 18:40:17 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/462218783 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/462224730 2020-03-16 18:45:21 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/462224730 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/462229022 2020-03-16 18:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/462229022 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/462255530 2020-03-16 19:13:29 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/462255530 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/462258223 This article talks about redlining in the 1930s. It states " The “redlined” areas were the ones local lenders discounted as credit risks, in large part because of the residents’ racial and ethnic demographics." It also states, "But 50 years after that law passed, the lingering effects of redlining are clear, with the pattern of economic and racial residential segregation still evident in many U.S. cities." This shows how because of something that happened almost 100 years ago, the effects of redlining are still relevant today and can affect where someone lives and how good of a school they go to. Living in a bad part of town or going to a not so fortunate school can for sure shape the way someone is. In The Hate U Give, Starr and her family had to move schools because the public schools where she lived weren't very good and had lots of trouble. ]]> 2020-03-16 19:16:13 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/462258223 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/468584986 2020-03-20 23:27:52 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/468584986 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/468586695 Clint smith talks about his experiences as a child and the things his parents often said to him. He states "I think of how hard it must have been, how profoundly unfair it must have felt for them to feel like they had to strip away parts of my childhood just so I could come home at night." He goes on and talks about one time he and his friends were out at night playing with water guns until his dad pulls him aside and says "You can't act the same as you'r white friends." This situation reminds me a lot about The Hate U Give and how police can assume stuff so easily. Kahlil had a brush in his hand and got shot because the officer thought it was a gun and in Clint's situation, his dad was nervous for him to have a water gun in his hand because police could assume it's a real gun. This is a great representation as to how black people have to shape or go about there lives so differently than white people do just to stay safe or keep out of trouble. ]]> 2020-03-20 23:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/468586695 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/468600173 2020-03-21 00:03:06 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/468600173 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/477437667 In this scene, you can see Spencer and all his friends getting some frozen yogurt from the new place in Crenshaw. They're all being perfectly normal until the owner gets upset with them and tells them all to leave. Many times black people will be racially profiled and experience times like this. Olivia (The girl with the black jacket on) lives in Beverly Hill and doesn't often get racially profiled. Later on, in the show, Olivia explains on her podcast how that one moment in Crenshaw really changed the way she felt about being black. She explains how black people can't really do anything while having some sort of fear or somehow doing something wrong in other people's minds. I think this clip is a great example of how small experiences like this can really change someone the way it did for Olivia. In Starrs situation, the death of Khalil inspired her to stand up and be an activist and you can see Olivia do the same. ]]> 2020-03-26 22:01:00 UTC https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/477437667 23redman_emma https://padlet.com/23redman_emma/it20eg5esa3e/wish/477467813 In this blog, Denene explains the way she felt growing up as a news reporter and how she wanted to make a change. She states, " The whole reason I became a journalist was to shine a light on the beauty and complexity of us—to write about what I know to be true about my people." Denene grew up in a time where it was always advertised that being black was a negative thing and she knew that she wanted to change the way people thought about black people. Denene's experiences she had made her want to make a change and that definitely shaped her into a new person and I'm sure it shaped many others too. It shaped her into a strong woman who wasn't afraid to stand up for what she believed and educate people on what she knew they should be educated about. Starr, in The Hate U Give, did the same. She was sick of being treated unfairly and having to hide her emotions so she raised her voice and stood up for what she believed in.

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