Blog post 7

 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 like in the case of Green Vs Johnson in the podcast "A Case Of Police Brutality That Didn't Go Viral". Officer Johnson believed that Green was a threat to him and he didn't want Green to go outside and grab the attention of the crowd outside. Which there was no one else outside. 
I did not know about the high number of black Americans which face incarcerations'.  To think they are 5x more likely to be incarcerated than white Americans is insane. I do believe there are high prejudices and racism within the system and training should be implemented but that comes with a high cost and a long amount of time. I'm unsure if it would be effective even as some may just walk out and choose to forget about what they learned. Common misconceptions about black Americans getting arrested or shot down is, "If they were listening to the office" or "If they were following the law". Who is to say they weren't? Black people often have to record things just for their safety and protection. This is now normalized for Black people as I would know myself. It's wrong to judge. It's also wrong to for an office to judge a person based on a description given to them as sometimes they get the wrong person and act out of hand. People of color themselves aren't protected as much as white people. When people of color are wrongly shot, killed, and/or arrested. The mental state of the families and the individual is traumatizing. Green mentioned in the podcast that he been having headaches, can't sleep at night, every time he sees a police he gets scared and starts shaking (NPR, 2021). This young man has developed PTSD from the interaction he lone faced with an officer. Imagine how his and other victims' families feel. Sometimes, it can even break apart the family on what to do going forward. Maybe the victim has a young child, they will grow up without their parent around and to explain that to a child can be mentally and emotionally damaging at such a young age.