Racism+Reflection+PM

PManeykowski Wall

I chose racism as a topic because I have gone over it in both history and english class this year. Furthermore, I have looked at the work of W.E.B. Dubois in both classes as well. I saw his work coincide directly with the other people that we have studied this year, because he was very focused on community and equality. This stance on community was similar to that of de Tocqueville and Steinbeck, that we all just need to work together to accomplish a common goal. This is very relavent to the topic of racism, because he wanted to get as many people as he could to fight for the rights of African-Americans, and to make sure that they were treated with as much respect as white people are. I chose the Trayvon Martin video to show that despite the work of revolutionaries such as DuBois, we are still very far from equality, and blatant racism unfortunately still exists.