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‘This ain’t the way’: Protester pleads for violence to stop in powerful video. How do you make a protest count?

‘This ain’t the way’: Protester pleads for violence to stop in powerful video

How do you demand real change in a system stacked against you? And how do you get respect when the president keeps calling you thugs, looters and terrorists? Those heavy questions were the backdrop for a powerful shouting match at a George Floyd protest in North Carolina on Saturday, where three generations of Black men were caught on video arguing about the right way to make their voices heard in the face of racial injustice. “I just felt like more (Black) people needed to hear this,” a woman wrote while sharing the video on Twitter, where it has now been watched more than 21 million times. Story continues below advertisement The incident happened amid sweeping protests over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who died in Minneapolis, Minn., after a police officer knelt on his neck for several minutes.

The viral protest video shows activist Curtis M. “What’re we gonna do?” “You tell me, but this ain’t the way,” Hayes says. Amat Levin: Upploppen är ett tecken på att förändring är möjlig. Brunswick, Georgia, den 23 februari 2020.

Amat Levin: Upploppen är ett tecken på att förändring är möjlig

Ahmaud Arbery, 25, avrättas av två vita män, den ena en ex-polis, under en joggingtur. Först när en video av händelsen når sociala medier grips männen. Det har då hunnit bli maj och 74 dagar har passerat sedan mordet. Det kommer att skrivas böcker om den gångna veckan i USA. Sedan i tisdags, en dag efter att polisen haft ihjäl den 46-årige George Floyd, har Minneapolis präglats av först plakat och högljudd frustration, sedan av plundrade butiker, förkolnade byggnader och blodiga ansikten. Videoklippet som sporrade demonstrationerna och som visade George Floyds sista andetag har etsat sig fast på näthinnor världen över: hans bakbundna händer och medgörliga kropp, hans vädjan för sitt liv och rop efter sin bortgångna mamma, knäet som trots det pressas mot hans nacke under nästan nio minuter. Louisville, Kentucky, den 13 mars 2020. Trots att Floyds död var det som utlöste vreden ska fallet inte förstås som en enskild händelse.

The Hate U Give. Arts and Humanities Flashcards. Guide hate u give. Teaching The Hate U Give Part 1. This post contains affiliate links.

Teaching The Hate U Give Part 1

See my disclosure page for full details. Thanks for your support! Finally, I am getting around to uploading and discussing some of the teaching I did for the EXCELLENT and AMAZING book The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. I’m sure that you have heard of this book if you teach high school and are into the young adult literary scene at all. It has blown up, tons of awards and of course, the movie came in October. “Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. Teaching with The Hate U Give I knew I wanted to teach this book because it is so incredibly relevant. A warning– there is A LOT of mature content in this book. These are the prediction questions I created for this novel:–> The Hate U Give prediction questions set. EMC Resource TheHateUGive. Developing Critical Consciousness through Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give.

Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice As part of their study of Angela Thomas’ novel The Hate U Give, students build background knowledge of the Black Lives Matter movement by listening to radio interviews and examining the network's official website.

Developing Critical Consciousness through Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give

They then take an interest and knowledge survey to help select the topic for a short directed research project designed to establish context and depth around several aspects of the novel: double consciousness/codeswitching, the Black Panther movement, Tupac Shakur as activist, media portrayal of police violence, and the complexity of gang culture. Students share their learning at key moments during reading and discussion of the novel, followed by work with excerpts from James Baldwin’s essay “Letter from a Region in My Mind” and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Letter to My Son.” back to top Buehler, Jennifer.