Intervention 2

Throughout this course, I have learned about different activism acts or certain activist people that have or are trying to make a difference. Meanwhile, in society today we also focus so much on our independent lives, we forget that there are others facing problems so intense expanding beyond ours. However, it is understandable. It is not easy to be able to adapt to your own problems and take an everyone’s problems. Therefore, we should at least understand and recognize that there is a problem, rather than try to move on from it like it is going to disappear. Believe it or not, recognizing a problem can at least give the problem attention or awareness for those that have the means and the time to solve it. We are currently facing a worldwide pandemic that has cost us more lives than your typical Flue; The Covid-19; also known as Corona Virus. This virus has changed our way of living and how our society acts in public, hence the mask. THE ENTIRE WORLD has been wearing masks scared to either catch or spread the virus that can be deadly. This has caused our economy to go down and unemployment rates to go through the roof, almost causing an economic recession. Even though COVID-19 sounds like a horrifying time that will certainly be in the history books. We still face a bigger problem… Racism. Unfortunately, this problem dates to hundreds of years before. Started with slavery and dropped to segregation. Even though segregation has ended some people still believe in white supremacy. Which is a belief that white people have more rights than colored people. Unfortunately, we see this through police brutality. White officers assume because they are federal worker who claim to “protect and serve” us, though instead they target and murder our friends and family of color. This has fueled African Americans and caused their protests to become violent. Nevertheless, violence is never the solution, but they were tired of not getting their point across fast enough before anyone else must suffer the doing of a white police officer. However, Kimberly Drew has is one of those activists that has taking the passive cause in helping African Americans embrace their color with their talent through her tumbler, trying to draw them more attention. As she states in her latest book “I posted every two hours around the Clock some friends were worried about the hours I kept as I worked I searched me museum websites other tumblrs and any resource that I could find to add more or two to the blog I knew that I wanted to record as many black artists as possible for anyone like me who needed to see more art by black people I knew that I had to resist the erasure of black artists I did not want anyone to say that black artist did not exist”. She not only provides additional awareness to these unnoticed artists, but she focuses her attention to prove a point, Black people are artist to”.

I created my poster with the front showing concern about Covid-19, But if you turn the page it shows a “Black Lives Matter” campaign to show that this is still a problem. So don’t just get fooled and think that Covid-19 is and our only problem, because Police Brutality is still a thing. I  placed the poster downstairs in my house complex lobby, for all the residents to see. If they are interested enough in Covid-19, they will grab the paper read “Turn the page” and see the campaign about Black Lives Matter.