{"id":892,"date":"2016-10-27T13:26:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T17:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/?p=892"},"modified":"2016-11-16T15:46:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T20:46:23","slug":"differences-in-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/2016\/10\/27\/differences-in-black-and-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Differences in Black and White"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Officer Betty Shelby shot Terence Crutcher because she feared for her life. She, a trained, unarmed officer, feared an unarmed African American civilian. Shelby got away with it, Crutcher\u2019s family has to live with it. These things happen everywhere, but not all of them are caught on video. When the injustice is seen throughout the nation, the court still pleaded Shelby not guilty.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \"img_1708\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0According to medium.com<\/em>, an estimated 200 African American civilians <\/span>have died from the police. That is the ones whose crime scenes weren\u2019t planted, who were found not guilty, who have not seen the true color of the court. As we look, we see all races being tormented. \u201cIt won’t change unless we all just understand one another.\u201d said George Williams, a 75 year old Dearborn resident. \u201cWe see more black people struggling, no offense to my people, but it’s only going to get worse.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\"img_3749\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0One of the most recent events happening, the riot in North Carolina, is a memory of what people had to go through in the past. \u201cPeople riot because they haven’t been heard.\u201d says Toni Mitchell, who lived past the 1967 riot in Detroit. \u201cBut, they are destroying their own community.\u201d Thankfully, no one died at the protest, but they easily could have, no matter the color of their skin. Although, we see more black people getting shot by white officers. One hundred percent of the people asked believe that a black officer can not get away with the murder of a white man. History repeats itself, it’s just a matter of when everything that people worked so hard for all tumbles down.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\"ipad-pics-012\"<\/a>\u00a0Racism is something most of us go through. We live with these titles given to us. We are portrayed as terrorists, rapists, or even violent. But, will it ever stop? \u201cIn a fantasy world, yes,\u201d said April Kincaid, an educator in Unis Middle School, \u201cbut, unfortunately, we live in a real world. And it\u2019ll go farther. As I watch people supporting Donald Trump, I’m reminded of how much racism is left in the United States.\u201d<\/span>
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \"img_3743\"<\/a>\u00a0\u201cWe can’t be color blind on the racism around us.\u201d said Zainab Alnajim, a student in Unis Middle School. It is the things that break us down, bring us closer. Can it ever stop? No. We can’t stop what others think. We can’t stop other people’s actions. But, we can’t let that define us. It is our characters content that define us. It is what we choose to do with the hatred thrown at us that define us. In the end, there is no black and white, but the differences in characters\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Zeinab Alghanem<\/p>\n

A Middle School Journalist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Officer Betty Shelby shot Terence Crutcher because she feared for her life. She, a trained, unarmed officer, feared an unarmed African American civilian. Shelby got away with it, Crutcher\u2019s family has to live with it. These things happen everywhere, but not all of them are caught on video. When the …<\/p>\n

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