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A note about recent protests.
It's interesting that when we think back to the Civil Rights Movement or the Stonewall Riots, most would agree that the police were wrong in their brutality and actions. But when faced with similar issues and delibrate police brutality today (with even more evidence from modern social media and recording devices), the police are just doing their jobs and everyone should just do what the officers say. Cognitive dissonance and compartmentalization are dangerous states of mind my friends.
Teaching connotation for change
Teaching connotation on a hs campus.
Lined up the following words on the board: terrorist, freedom fighter, patriot, militant activist. Got their feelings and associations for each word. Explained that all these words could apply to the same people depending on perspective. Unhappy faces! Described the Boston Tea Party. Even unhappier faces when they got it I was talking about our Founding Fathers.
Later, made them realize that, as strong as their feelings about the word liberty, they didn't know what it meant.
Tomorrow we compare coverage about St. Louis protests for biased word choice.
I feel ok about my job today.
Protesters In St. Louis Burn American Flags, Prompting Racist Tweets (Video)
Protesters In St. Louis Burn American Flags, Prompting Racist Tweets (Video)
St. Louis, where emotions were already raw from the Michael Brown shooting, is once again teetering on the edge after another young black man was shot by police this week. Brand new protests broke out on Thursday night in the Shaw neighborhood on the near-south side of St. Louis city, several miles south of St. Louis suburb Ferguson.
The neighborhood is where 18-year-old Vonderrit Myers Jr. was…
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I just think it's really important that y'all know that the media is claiming mr.Brown attacked the police officer who shot him, that there was widespread rioting across the city that began on the very first day of the protests and that the officer who shot brown is on paid leave and will be reinstated soon. If anyone can source this please do, I'm getting all of this information from television and radio news and don't have a link able source.