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  Looking back on the podcast I listened to, I feel helpless. As a black woman, every time I hear about any injustices that a law enforcer does to people of color. I slowly and slowly lose faith. In our system and my ability to live through this terror of just being black. It really scares me especially since I always wonder if it will be my family member next or something. In the Ted Talk with Kimberle Crenshaw, she says, "Without frames that allow us to see  how social problems impact all the members of a targeted group,  many will fall through the cracks of our movements," (Crenshaw, 2016). And she's right. She spoke about how women who are black are often the ones spilling through these cracks as the media believe it won't get as much coverage so they won't get a frame. I found that many African Americans have to fight and often sue the Police branch for their wrong doings and acts of injustice. But the victim and their families usually fall on deaf ears. Just...

How are White privilege and educational inequality related?      The terms white privilege and educational inequality is related because a lot of white people aren't fully aware of their privilege due to their skin color. Educational inequality is not having the same or equal amount of resources that another schooling system may have. We mostly see this in schools with lower funding vs schools that that have high funding or private schools. Those who attend lower-income schools are usually people who aren't high class and minorities. In the article, "White parents are enabling school segregation" it states that, "Affluent white parents can pay for test prep to get their kids into better charter schools. They can move to the suburbs to get into wealthier districts," (Berlatsky, 2019). This is example of how the two terms are related. White parents are able to pay this and that for a better opportunity for their children while poorer students of colors would h...

      The way colorism and racism are related in media are fairly similar. We often see dark skinned individuals not getting much attention for their achievements in media and you also see dark-skinned people getting hate or discriminated against for having dark skin. There was this saying I heard before it was, "If it ain't white, it ain't right." I believe this is the perfect example of colorism. As well as racism. The article from The Wrap tells the story of a young biracial women who gave up her own position in the movie Black Panther because she felt too light to play the role. (The Wrap, 2018) Amandla Stenberg reasons by saying that, " ‘Black Panther’ is one of the only films that we have that has darker-skinned representation." Stenberg comment itself got some backlash for addressing the colorism within role picking. People in the media felt she made those remarks because she wants to make it all about her and felt she was trying to downplay darker sk...

       When I think of positive representation, I think of all the many types of ethnicities and cultures that aren't as known or talked about in the real world. We seem to forget that there's more than just Asians, Africans, European, Native, etc. The way we think like this is through exposure. If you grew up not knowing about other racial groups, it would become difficult to adjust or not have any biases to those who aren't the same as you. Familiarity is important when it comes to positive representation. Especially in media. It's important for media to depict of different peoples' ethnicity in a good way instead of showing only the bad because as a society, we take what's shown to us and start to have a opinion in a negative way thanks to the media. For young kids, they're taught to be racist as they aren't colorblind. They are taught that through exposure from their families and through media. Winkler (2009), puts it into perspective by saying, ...

  While reading the articles from Akin and Paasch, I realized that African Americans and Multiracial individuals start really young learning about their history and ancestry. Parents find it very important for their children to know where their roots are and not to be forgotten. Although, they have some difference. For example, multiracial children said their parents never used the term "biracial". Atkin (2021), reported that "their parents taught them that they were members of all of their groups, though the term 'Multiracial'" (pg.5). As it was important for them to acknowledge all parts of their heritages. And using biracial may be limited to the families. While for African Americans, Paasch (2014), states "sharing  stories  about  family  history  was  another  aspect of ethnic group identification" (pg.171). The two has racial differences but aren't entirely different when it comes to history on their ethnicity. I believe the main differen...