Police Brutality In Donald Glover's Song, Childish Gambino

As the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, the upper class loses “familiarity with the problems that typical Americans face” (Palacios). Two articles that highlight this issue are “Why is Everyone Focused on Zuckerberg’s Hoodie” by Somini Sengupta and “The Logic of Stupid Poor People” by Tressie McMillan Cottom. In Sengupta’s article she discusses the simple, yet iconic hoodie often worn by Mark Zuckerberg and why it is so much more than it seems. She goes into the many theories why he may wear it and has a twist ending by alluding it to the shooting of Trayvon Martin (230). In Cottom’s

As people watch Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing in the twenty-first century, many cannot help but notice that a nearly thirty-year-old movie carries such overwhelmingly real, contemporary social aspects. The racial tension in the film which leads up to the inevitable chaos of the film are problems which society still faces today. Specifically, Spike Lee depicts how police brutality and racial tension captures the angry spirit surrounding recent killings of unarmed black people by police officers. Specifically, Lee did not just predict police brutality against African Americans, but he predicted African American men, with characteristics comparable to Radio Raheem's, to be the standard for victims of police brutality.

Nikita Carney’s “All Lives Matter, but so Does Race: Black Lives Matter and the Evolving Role of Social Media” assesses the role of social media as a public sphere, capable of influencing public discourse and the evolution of social media as a platform for discussing racial injustice. Carney uses twitter as her subject and analyzes the opposing discourse surrounding hashtags “#BlackLivesMatter” and “#AllLivesMatter” occurring after the non-indictments of white police officers in the killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. These hashtags represent opposing ideology about police brutality and the persecution of black bodies. Carney begins by establishing Twitter as a place for marginalized youth of color to engage in meaningful discourse about their experiences of racial inequality. Carney notes that “different groups viewing the same media coverage interpret issues of race and police violence in drastically different ways”, proving the existence of confirmation bias on social media. Millennials have

Before using her Facebook as a means to connect young minds about civil rights movements and issues that still plagues the nation today, Sandra Bland used her social media like every other citizen. That is until just after Christmas of 2014 when she made the decision to speak up about “the economic crisis burdening young African Americans,” trying to, in her words, inform her readers about black history, or American history as she liked to describe it (Nathan). Sandra Bland, a 28 year old African American, had just received a job interview from her alma mater, Prairie View A&M University. Her life seemed to be going smoothly, just received a job offering, rekindled her relationship with her mother, and seemed optimistic about the future to

We live in a world where police brutality is caused by the ignorance’s of people who believe they aren’t colorblind. The numbers of cases of murders and homicides in communities with high levels of poverty have increased. With the number of criminal activity growing, Law enforcement have brutality tried to crack down criminals at no expense. With the following happening young men and women in the Black community who commit minor to no offense have been taken in to detain facilities beaten. In addition to police brutality when arresting a person of color we are now experiencing polices using brutal focused on young black men and women without probable cause of threat.

This book excerpt, written my Marshal McLuhan, begins by acknowledging how far the Western world has come in terms of innovation and development. It takes notice of the fast pace in which media is now spread. Before, one could post a video, and some may not hear about it for days, even months. Today, once a video has been posted, it has the potential to instantly go viral. McLuhan then goes on to speak of the social and political awareness that is now attached with the use of electric media. Due to our effortless access of social media, several social groups now have a voice both nationally and locally (Negro, the teenager, and some other groups.) We are living in the ‘Age of Anxiety’, where everyone has an opinion and everyone feels that

“What it look like” by Terrance Hayes is a poem that stresses the impact that racism has on the African American community. The speaker successfully portrays the obvious discrimination that blacks experience and that the white community does not know that they have power. Through the examination of the deeper and apparent meaning, powerful emotions and connections to society, the speaker is able to craft the argument that exposes white power and discrimination towards blacks. Terrance Hayes uses a unique word choice to show the readers what he goes through as an African American. Hayes also uses produces a rhythm of longer lines to create tension in the poem. In today’s society, racism is becoming more of a major issue and has not improved due to social media. Social media is increasingly becoming more influential which is changing the perspective of how one feels about different races. African Americans are perceived by others to be these awful individuals that are most likely to be perpetrators of crime due to social media. The media does instill racial stereotype on African Americans. This issue is important because discrimination in America has led to police brutality. Individuals look at African Americans to be dangerous because the media portray it to be a bigger issue than what it already is. Nevertheless, what one fails to realize is that it’s not just African Americans that are experiencing racism, it is everybody in the world and still the social media fails to

Change is defined as making a difference for the better or the for the worst. Change in society is different though, people will find a to degrade society. Society wont change unless people change. People need to stop with the police brutality, the black on white crimes and how the media over publicize these crimes that are happing. People don't see that police are scared they put there life on the line everyday in a split second they have to make rash decisions that could cost them their lives.

Social media has evolved dramatically in its way it impacts our community, nation and world as a whole. Websites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are the reason that we are so aware of our surroundings and everything going on around the world today. It is incredible when we think about how much these social media platforms allow us to see, from what is going on in The White House, what is going on in our local community, or even the latest fail videos uploaded to YouTube. The way videos can go from being filmed on one’s personal phone or camcorder, to being the top viewed video on the internet is truly mesmerizing. In 1992, there was an incident in California that involved Rodney King, a taxi cab driver who had a run in to the police that

The authors, Yarimar Bonilla and Jonathan Rosa chose disciplines with the background in communications, sociology, and public affairs. These three disciplines are not only present in this article but also represent the issue as a whole. Social media reflects communication, society’s behavior portrays sociology, and the political viewpoints symbolize public affairs. Key concepts like ethnography, police brutality, social media, and activism are all exercised in the article to help determine if a hashtag could become a field site. Research methods such as communication research and content analysis are evident throughout the article. For example, the article discusses a numerical description by stating, “during the initial week of protests, over 3.6 million posts appeared on Twitter documenting and reflecting on the emerging details surrounding Michael Brown’s death” (Bonilla & Rosa 2015). The article does not directly state any key thinkers nor key theories but Black Lives Matter founders Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi all encourage the content of the article and the supported sources.

The movie Selma began with Martin Luther King Jr. receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his efforts against racial prejudice. In result of the church bombing made by white supremacists Martin Luther King Jr. noticed African American still has a long way to go before achieving equality. Despite the end of segregation, the states made it difficult for African Americans to vote by enforcing literacy test and poll tax. This widely praised film is portrayed around the events surrounding the 1965 march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery Alabama. From various perspectives, the film demonstrates how little progress the United States has made in genuinely accomplishing "liberty and justices for all.” This is the reason Black Lives Matter Movement is still fighting against police brutality and social injustice in the local, state and federal legislative today in 2018.

This line talks about how the cops are racist and automatically assume that he sells drugs. The artist then proceeds to say that cops are actually corrupt and they sell drugs. The artist also hints at cops being racist with the line: “Or when my car is hooked up, you know you wanna follow me”. Next he sings “first show a little respect, change your behavior.

One aspect of life for black people in the United States of America that has always remained consistent is white racial hostility. A history of slavery, segregation, unequal protection of the law, and second class citizenship inflicted by a white power structure that dominates on a national level has created a harmful reality for black people. Every aspect of black public life must either be under the control of or in opposition to white supremacy. Every state-sanctioned institution works to use black bodies as tools for the production of capital in any form, yet simultaneously exploits and maltreats black people so that they cannot fully participate in and benefit from the systems which they are indoctrinated to invest in. White America leverages its money, comfort, and tyranny on Black America. It is for this reason that separate spaces are not merely essential to the viability of black counter-publics but inherent to their existence, since black involvement in white spaces and systems typically leads to black assimilation or marginalization. Within these black counter-publics, hip hop and mass connection through new media forms direct attention and allow for personal expression which shapes black worldview and public opinion, but this simply makes black people more comfortable with their oppression and less involved in politics.

Boom, boom! Boom, boom! The kind of bass that drains batteries and the kind of lyrics that unload clips, these are the sounds that rap music produces. I chose this topic because I am extremely interested in rap music and I want to explore the violent aspect of the industry. I have never had a chance to look at the violent side of it and I plan to find answers to questions I have in my search. Tupac Shakur is one of my favorite artists and when he was shot and killed I really started to take notice of the violence. People were getting killed because of an image that was being set. What I really want to know, however, is why rappers feel compelled to graphically describe the violence.

He explains on how violent his life was and how he had to survive. In the song he mentions “ The projects is full of bullets, the bodies is droppin” showing that where he