Dylan

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Black Lives Matter

Everyone started from nothing

Everything once was so sane

It’s odd how some see a blessing

In playing the racism game

From where comes the desire

The Passion, the motive, the strength

From where comes your fire

To believe in inequality and hate

Why do they place this oppression

I just don’t see the connection

Maybe soon they’ll climb the ladder

And realize that Black Lives Matter

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American Oxygen

“Chasin’ this American Dream We sweat for a nickel and a dime”

-Rihanna

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These lyrics show that not everyone’s hard work pays off. Everyone wants to live the american dream but may spend their whole lives making just enough to keep a roof over their head. Those who get the opportunity to fulfill their dreams are the lucky ones.

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“Similar to the coding systems employed by anthropologists, hashtags allow users to not simply “file” their comments but to performatively frame what these comments are “really about,” thereby enabling users to indicate a meaning that might not be otherwise apparent.”

-Bonilla and Rosa, “#Ferguson”

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Hashtags prove that posts on twitter have a deeper meaning than the short sentence they might be. Posting a hashtag shows that deep connection, but may also refer their quote to some movement. Twitter can be a place that connects people under similar oppression, and the hashtags give them a way of fighting back in a sense.

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Once again, the media focused not on state action buton the worthiness of black bodies. Local news immediatelyran profiles of Rice’s parents, noting that they both had “vi-olent pasts” (his father had been charged with domestic vi-olence and his mother with drug possession). This history,reporters argued, could help explain why Tamir Rice wouldbe inclined to play with a toy gun in a public place. - #Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the US,” Bonilla and Rosa

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This quote brings out a lot of truths in modern day media. Blacks are always made out to be criminals no matter what an issue may be. Something that stands out to me on this issue is the viral posts quoted “If they gunned me down, which photo would they use.” These posts consist of two photos, one being good, and the other bad, obviously referring that the media would use the bad one. This points out that the media always tries to portray the bad side of a person to make the story seem against blacks, which is totally unfair.

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They say they were provoked although oddly 'there is no video of the incident despite the fact that the jail is equipped with video cameras'

John Oliver

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Chasin' this American Dream We sweat for a nickel and a dime Turn it into an empire

Rihanna “American Oxygen”

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I do not always feel colored

Rankine “from citizen

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So you’re just moving along and suddenly you get this moment that breaks your ability to continue, and yet you continue.

Sharma, “Blackness as the Second Person”

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what does it taste like: revenge squirming alive in your mouth strangling you quiet from the inside out.

Franny Choi  “ To the Man Who Shouted “I Like Pork Fried Rice” at Me on the Street”

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'What was harder, being black enough for the black kids, or black enough for the white kids?' 'Being Neither'

Justin Simien “Dear White People”

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“In our kitchen-talk, porch-talk, stoop-talk, shop-talk, we say a lot of things that most white folks rarely hear because in these spaces we can be just a little more free or, at least, we face our own judgments of each other, shaped by our racist ecology, rather than carry the unique heaviness of “being Black.” 

Faithful: #BlacklivesmatterKitchenTalk

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This quote shows how comforting it might be for blacks to be able to talk to each other without dealing with the rest of the world. By being out with society they may feel oppressed in daily life just because of who they are. Saying they can get rid of the feeling by just being alone really shows a lot.

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Rather, they agreed that the criminal system worked well in service of the purposes for which it had been designed: “institutionalized lynching.”

#BlackLivesMatter Kitchen Talk, Faithful (via marinad1)

This quote shows what some African Americans may think of the criminal system in the US. They see it in favor of whites and unfair to them. The way it is set up in their eyes is just to harm black people, rather than to protect them like it should. Saying that it was designed this way roots back to the creation of the government when blacks were not treated as equal.

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Our sense is that the criminal system cannot be relied upon to administer justice for Black folks, and was, in fact, historically designed to control Blacks within a racial caste system.

Richael Faithful “ #BLACKLIVESMATTER KITCHEN TALK”

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See, I only date hood. My last man? He never even met his father. Four women, six kids. Three of whom are named after luxury cars. Child support?

Ross Gay “ Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to my Black Friend by the White Woman He Briefly Dated”

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She has no idea what she's doing in college That major that she majored in don't make no money. But she won't drop out, her parents will look at her funny

Kanye West “All Falls Down”