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Creating infographics to in hopes to better disseminate data reporting the history of Black Americans
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And really ... the reason you ask... #2

Closed jeffrey-kissel closed 4 years ago

jeffrey-kissel commented 4 years ago

... is because after listening to That Jun 03 2020 episode of Throughline, https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/869046127/american-police you realize, that you're just falling in to the same, century-old, ignorant-white-folk, trap of thinking that the problem can be solved by just "making people more aware." The point that that podcast tries to make: there have been these sort of outrageous problems for 1.5 centuries, and there's been reports and recommended actions, but zero-follow-through -- and even worse: it's forgotten about until the next time it happens, and the cycle continues. People are wasting time catching up to reality.

So -- you ask yourself -- what good does looking at the prison population do? It's a symptom not a cause. The cause is known. It's a policing and criminal justice system that was founded in white supremacy [and not in the modern sense of "those racist, murderous assholes" but in the literal sense], and what should happen is the reform of that system. "I'm not racist -- they're just criminals." White people (whom are not the police) need to speak up to change the system by voting to change the system at its core. To reward behavior that truly treats Black Americans infinitely better.

So we wonder if I should create new folders (besides "prisons") for topics like "gerrymandering," "votereducation," etc. ...

jeffrey-kissel commented 4 years ago

In the end, I'll probably be making new folders in the root repository, https://github.com/jeffrey-kissel/blacklivesmatter

Based on what I've found from the web and documented here: https://github.com/jeffrey-kissel/blacklivesmatter/issues/8.