Blog 6

This past weekend I worked on organizing the Prezi for the Unit 1 Project. My groups Prezi is about Caitlyn Jenner and LGBTQ rights as a whole. We are discussing Life before Caitlyn Jenner and how she lived her life as Bruce, the spotlight, how people have reacted to her coming out, political views, and how the media has come into play.

 In comparison to Caitlyn Jenner, the NYPD hashtag was created to show support for this organization. This hashtag showing support for the NYPD was turned into a negative idea. #MyNYPD turned into people posting content that showed this organization beating protestors and stopping protests with physical violence. Like Caitlyn Jenner, her coming out was praised by some and hated by others.

On social media podiums, society posted both negative and positive things about her. Essentially, these two collude have similarities just as any social cause would. Because the information is spread amongst so many people throughout the world, that just gives that many opinions being shared concerning this subject matter.

On another online reading, titled Get up, Stand up is very similar to the article on the NYPD hashtag. This article is mainly about the 1960’s. If you were a civil rights worker it was your job to make everyone aware of the activist’s arrests and danger along with it. There were huge crowds of media people surrounding Michael Brown casket. The shooting of Michael Brown occurred in Ferguson, Missouri. Michael Brown robbed a convenience store and was shot by a white man named Darren Wilson. I believe if a white man was robbing a convenience store today, he would be handcuffed and taken away to jail. There was a lot more racism in the 1960’s. However, racism is still prominent today, just not as serious as it was years ago.  On April 30, 2015, hundreds of demonstrators in Baltimore make their way to city hall, demanding justice for Freddie Grey who was 25, a black man, and died in police custody. Black lives do matter and we need to start a revolution.