https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr 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 15:22:21 UTC 2022-10-05 12:38:20 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327436071 Someone really said that they came from Asia and asked how the trip over was]]> 2022-10-05 11:54:45 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327436071 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327437335 Police across the country kill more Black citizens today than were lynched at the height of U.S. segregation. ]]> 2022-10-05 11:55:45 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327437335 akriscenski https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327437454 "By the 1920s, Oregon had developed the highest per capita Ku Klux Klan membership in the country. And today, Portland is the Whitest city of its size in the country" (pg.122).]]> 2022-10-05 11:55:51 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327437454 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327437657 A cop pulled out a picture of a black man that had a warrant for his arrest, and he asked a high school kid who was black, was that him]]> 2022-10-05 11:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327437657 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327437692 It's interesting to me that, in all of the history classes I've ever taken, we've only payed lip service to the modern day consequences of slavery and Jim Crow. It's such an important issue in modern day America that needs to be reconciled, and most educators---except Ms. Arnold--- teach nothing about it. ]]> 2022-10-05 11:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327437692 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327440290 A teacher told someone of a different race that they'd be lucky if they went to community college]]> 2022-10-05 11:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327440290 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327440327 The Utah Attorney General refused to outright talk about racism in their state]]> 2022-10-05 11:58:11 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327440327 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327440426 Someone who was in a relationship with a Nicaraguan-American didn't know that Nicaragua was a country or that Mexican wasn't a langue which goes to show how out of touch people can be

]]> 2022-10-05 11:58:16 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327440426 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327441707 Eryn's ballet teacher told her she should "fix" her hair and to never go back to school with dreadlocks because "it was a distraction" ]]> 2022-10-05 11:59:15 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327441707 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327443208 In 1938, there was a boxing match between Louis and Schmeling. Louis was a black man representing America, while Schmeling had the Nazi's regime backing him. The Fist a monument for Louis does not symbolize the "Comeback City" but the fight for justice that many people fought for. ]]> 2022-10-05 12:00:30 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327443208 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327443242 People interpreted the curse that God put on Cain in the bible to be black skin.]]> 2022-10-05 12:00:31 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327443242 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327445938 Some undocumented people in America may feel the need to "come out" as undocumented to their friends or just people around the. ]]> 2022-10-05 12:02:34 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327445938 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327448291 A history teacher was teaching kids that Native Americans were savages, with Native American kids in the class]]> 2022-10-05 12:04:34 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327448291 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327448329 It's awful how common it is for teachers to show elementary school children racist depictions of indigenous people at such young ages. ]]> 2022-10-05 12:04:35 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327448329 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327448718 In 1957 the KKK burned a cross outside the hotel window of the first famous Black ballerina 
Years later Misty Copeland (first Black principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre) was told to make her skin lighter so she could fit in with the rest of the dancers ]]> 2022-10-05 12:04:54 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327448718 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327448965 Javier talked about adding gender-neutral bathrooms for more inclusiveness and people began arguing about the mayor "allowing perverts to come into the bathrooms".]]> 2022-10-05 12:05:07 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327448965 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327449004 There were 5 women that helped lead the civil rights movement and they hire MLK to talk for them as people wouldn't have listened to a women.]]> 2022-10-05 12:05:08 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327449004 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327449898 A trans man was told by his family that because he went to college he became part of the LGBTQ+ community and that working in a diversity and inclusion office "made gay professional" ]]> 2022-10-05 12:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327449898 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327450043 Prior to this passage, I was unfamiliar with the term "food swamp," which is basically an area, usually on the poorer end of the spectrum, that only has access to fast food or convenience stores. Lack of racial equity in nutrition and healthcare contributes greatly to the 33 year gap in average life expectancy between the longest and shortest living groups in the US. ]]> 2022-10-05 12:05:51 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327450043 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327450323 I did not know that in 1921 there were planes that were dropping bombs on the black community that's crazy!]]> 2022-10-05 12:06:03 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327450323 akriscenski https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327450666 "When I came out to my very traditional Catholic mom -shortly after my brother came out as gay- she called us both sinners going to hell. She said we weren't her children anymore, and wouldn't take us to school. Later, she just pretended it was all fine."]]> 2022-10-05 12:06:14 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327450666 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327451255 A sixteen year old girl had to go to the Mormon church to "confess" to a fifty something year old man because she got pregnant. She had to answer all types of very personal questions (i.e. how much do you 🤬)]]> 2022-10-05 12:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327451255 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327451280 I can't believe that the white boss of the boy compared a native person to a black person. It feels like whenever someone with colored skin does something wrong, it is always blamed on the black people. ]]> 2022-10-05 12:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327451280 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327453537 16% of U.S. born Asian American women contemplate suicide in their lifetime and they are second only to Native Americans in their rate of suicide deaths.]]> 2022-10-05 12:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327453537 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327454335 10 cops were about to shoot a young man after screaming at him to get out of the car, but he couldn't hear them because of the music, so they gave him a ticket, but then tried to see if they could hear, and couldn't so ripped up the ticket, and just tried to apologize.]]> 2022-10-05 12:09:20 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327454335 akriscenski https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327455401 "To this day, though, three of my uncles and an aunt still refer to me by my birth name, and I have to prepare myself every holiday season because I know that I'm going to get Bible verses thrown at me."]]> 2022-10-05 12:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327455401 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327456873 Executive order 9066: all persons of Japanese ancestry would be removed from the West Coast]]> 2022-10-05 12:11:12 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327456873 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327457289 The idea of "40 acres and a mule" that was promised to every free black family was reversed by Andrew Johnson after Lincoln was killed. The land ended up being returned to the Confederate land owners as a way to withhold land from non-whites.]]> 2022-10-05 12:11:32 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327457289 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327457657 Native American youth are 3.5 times more likely to commit suicide ]]> 2022-10-05 12:11:50 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327457657 akriscenski https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327457986 Black people and White people started the NAACP. ]]> 2022-10-05 12:12:02 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327457986 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327459234 The US dropped over 7,200 Hiroshima sized bombs and bigger in the Marshall Islands from 1946-1958. They promised to help the people there, who now have a very high risk of cancer. The US took total control of those islands without considering the negative effects it would have on the people living there just so they could test out some nuclear bombs that should've never been created in the first place. ]]> 2022-10-05 12:12:59 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327459234 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327461274 In the town where Karen grew up, the population was 80% Black. In the prosecutor's office, only 3 of the attorneys who are supposed to represent the community were.]]> 2022-10-05 12:14:20 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327461274 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327462885 Black defendants are much more likely to be charged with the death penalty than white defendants committing the same crimes. ]]> 2022-10-05 12:15:36 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327462885 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327464521 Some of the Creoles could pass as white, and some had children with white people, but didn't say they were black, the children or grandchildren wouldn't know they were black ]]> 2022-10-05 12:16:51 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327464521 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327465686 "My dad has actively participated in 75 years of white supremacy and patriarchy- in how he hates people, how he said, "Let me have that, that's mine" in the Philippines, how he treats women, and how he has treated me."- a woman adopted from the Philippines said this about her adoptive father. ]]> 2022-10-05 12:17:45 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327465686 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327466988 Kimmy's aunt said that she'd wait for her sister to come back home, but her sister never returned.]]> 2022-10-05 12:18:41 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327466988 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327467245 A girl was dumped by her boyfriend because he found out she was half-black. ]]> 2022-10-05 12:18:53 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327467245 akriscenski https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327467374 Native American youth are 3.5 more times likely to commit suicide than any other ethnic group. ]]> 2022-10-05 12:18:58 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327467374 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327467800 in the 1920's, Oregon had the highest per capita of KKK members 

]]> 2022-10-05 12:19:11 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327467800 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327468996 "Being a Muslim and being a feminist are not mutually exclusive. You can be one; you can be both. But White feminism excludes Muslim women, just like it excludes Black women." 
Muslim, and Black, women are left out of the conversations just because "the hijab is associated with un-Americanness."]]> 2022-10-05 12:20:03 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327468996 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327471355 It's insane that sharecropping still existed in the 70s and 80s; it makes me wonder if it still happens in America today.]]> 2022-10-05 12:21:41 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327471355 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327471676 2022-10-05 12:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327471676 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327472045 A study by CNN found that terrorist attacks "by Muslims perpetrators received, on average, 357% more coverage than other attacks." ]]> 2022-10-05 12:22:11 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327472045 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327472221 47 children (342 people total), ages 0-19 are subjected to gun violence every day in the US]]> 2022-10-05 12:22:19 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327472221 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327473971 2022-10-05 12:23:28 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327473971 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327474015 “Even from an institutional standpoint, (my last name) doesn’t fit in the Scantron form. You’re getting all the messages from the government that it’s too long, that it’s not right.” -Amanda, an Indonesian-Thai-American scientist in NYC]]> 2022-10-05 12:23:30 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327474015 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327474905 "Feminism is about protecting every women's freedom, and if you're really about that message, then you must protect Muslim women and their freedom to wear the hijab."
very powerful quote ]]> 2022-10-05 12:24:07 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327474905 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327475942 You are more likely to get the death penalty if you are a Black person with a White victim, than a White person with a Black victim. There are less than 5% of murders with Black defendants and White victims, but over half of Black defendants awaiting execution have been sentenced for killing someone White]]> 2022-10-05 12:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327475942 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327486015 "She said 'Nah, there ain't no such thing, you're gay, you're nasty, and you're going to hell'" This was a young girl's mother's response to finding out her daughter was bisexual. It is really crazy to me that people can hold this much hatred for their own children. ]]> 2022-10-05 12:31:09 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327486015 Xjnmagic https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327488447 The fact that the original founders of the Civil Rights Movement were five black women, of which I knew none of their names. Furthermore, they HIRED MLK, since people would listen to him as a man. It's almost unbelievable three people so important to American history would be forgotten about, but at the same time it's entirely believable- after all, female people of color are some of the most marginalized in society.]]> 2022-10-05 12:33:02 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327488447 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327493174 "it's a privileged experience of genocide". This was a really interesting way for this person to talk about being Jewish, and I agree with this way of thinking. ]]> 2022-10-05 12:36:16 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327493174 Xjnmagic https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327494516 Less than 1% of all Cherokees living today speak the Cherokee language- that's less than 12,000 people. That means that people can have completely different social and familial experiences (due to the way the language treats individuals' identities and pronouns) even among very similar heritages.]]> 2022-10-05 12:37:13 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327494516 akriscenski https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327496274 My dad has actively participated in seventy-five years of White supremacy and patriarchy - in how he hates people, how he said,"Let me have that, that's mine" in the Phillipines, how he treats women, and how he has treated me. ]]> 2022-10-05 12:38:20 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/vn80gh0lunzqducr/wish/2327496274