final intervention

    For my final intervention, I will be talking about racism and discrimination in different groups and communities such as black people, Latinos, Asians, and LGBTQ. what inspired me to make this project and talk about the LGBTQ community was my uncle who died a month ago. he was a very kind person but he was being discriminated against in the Dominican Republic for being gay. I wrote some letters on a t-shirt in different colors. an activist artist that inspired me to make this project was Kimberly Drew, Solange Pierre, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Martin Luther King JR, and John Berger. what inspired me a lot to make this project about black lives matters was the pictures that I saw in the book Black Lives Matters, the first picture was showing to kids with a poster that said "am I next" which is very painful to see that because that black people nowadays are afraid to go out because they don't if they would be a target to the police and they don't know if the will experience another scenario from the police. in my project, I wrote in my t-shirt that says "we need to love each other no matter who we are". With this quote, I want to make sure that the people who will be able to see it and read it feels identify especially racist people. I want them to feel identify with this post because nobody has to suffer because his/her color of the skin is "inadequate" or people from another country can't suffer because they were not born here. Also, in my project, I wrote the letter in different colors because of the LGBTQ flag and community. I wanted to talk about that because these people are being discriminated against in this country too. It is sad that in some parts of this country people have to be someone that they don't like just because other people don't like it. What I want to say about that is that everybody has their own right to choose their sexual preference because that's the way that they will feel good. Another picture that I saw in the book was with a caption that says "is he protecting you" showing a police officer who was doing anything just looking at everybody. because they were white. in an article by NBC News, they said that the "U.K to ban LGBTQ conversation therapy and provide more support". According to NBC News: Britain will move to ban conversion therapy and provide more support to those in the LGBTQ community who have undergone the treatment, as part of its post-pandemic government agenda. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government said measures would be brought forward to prevent these "abhorrent practices which can cause mental and physical harm," starting with a consultation on how best to protect people and how to eliminate coercive practices. A baseball player from Cleveland also shared a racist message received after a game-ending error and the message said ""Exercise your freedom of speech is a right way, I accept all comments, positive or negative but Definitely Not racist ones".

3 quote:

1- "symbolizes the strength and dignity of black people, an animal that never strikes back until he's back so far into the wall, he's got nothing to do but spring out".

2- "I thought about Emmett Till and I could not go back".

3- "the anger and outrage over Emmet Till's murder was one of the catalysts that sparked the civil rights movement and it was all because of a photo".

"We need to love each other no matter who we are"

"Every lives matters"