Black Lives Matter After The Hype
When thinking of Equality the main things to first come to mind are race and gender, usually as separate matters. We quickly find that "class" is the third issue in there as well as all three being closely knit to create a bombardment of oppression. As one who seems to be at the peak of two of the three in terms of status (White, Male), I wanted to take this chance to listen as much as possible. We first discussed race, reading about different perspectives on slavery in that of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois. From there we researched the reconstruction period and why it fell. And finally in race we visited an exhibition of Robert Colescott who would depict minorities in place of white people; usually famous ideas or works were his targets. Moving to gender we started by listing the privileges we each do or don't have. This also related to race as many privileges are associated with your outward appearance. We all said thing like being payed more or less and being