Race (Part II)
Tuesday, October 6th & Wednesday, October 7th
Today's Slides
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Untold History
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EdPuzzle VideoWe have an assignment in EdPuzzle based on the video on the right. Please complete that assignment in EdPuzzle. You don't get credit if you just watch it here!
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Organizing for Change
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Read this article about people hunger striking in order to save a school in Chicago. As you read, answer the questions from the file included.
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4th Music Journal - Race (Extra Credit)
This an optional assignment for extra credit.
Listen to "I Can't Breathe" by H.E.R.. This song was written this summer, in the midst of mass protests surrounding the death of George Floyd. After listening, write or record a reflection that answers some of the following questions (it can be bullet points, a paragraph, or a video).
Listen to "I Can't Breathe" by H.E.R.. This song was written this summer, in the midst of mass protests surrounding the death of George Floyd. After listening, write or record a reflection that answers some of the following questions (it can be bullet points, a paragraph, or a video).
- Where do you see culture in the song?
- Is there conflict? Identify the in-group & out-group.
- Where do you see identity?
- How is power represented in the song?
- How does the music make you feel?
- How do the lyrics make you feel?
"I Can't Breathe" by H.E.R. |
Lyrics:
[Verse 1] Starting a war, screaming "Peace" at the same time. All the corruption, injustice, the same crimes. Always a problem if we do or don't fight, And we die, we don't have the same right, What is a gun to a man that surrenders? What's it gonna take for someone to defend her? If we all agree that we're equal as people, Then why can't we see what is evil? [Chorus] I can't breathe! You're taking my life from me. I can't breathe! Will anyone fight for me? [Verse 2] How do we cope when we don't love each other? Where is the hope and the empathy? How do we judge off the color? The structure was made to make us the enemy. Prayin' for change 'cause the pain makes you tender. All of the names you refuse to remember. Was somebody's brother, friend, Or a son to a mother that's crying, singing? [Chorus] I can't breathe! You're taking my life from me. I can't breathe! Will anyone fight for me? [Verse 3] Trying times all the time. Destruction of minds, bodies, and human rights. Stripped of bloodlines, whipped and confined. This is the American pride. It's justifying a genocide. Romanticizing the theft and bloodshed That made America the land of the free, To take a black life, land of the free, To bring a gun to a peaceful fight for civil rights. You are desensitized to pulling triggers on innocent lives Because that's how we got here in the first place. These wounds sink deeper than the bullet Your entitled hands could ever reach. Generations and generations of pain, fear, and anxiety. Equality is walking without intuition. Saying the protector and the killer is wearing the same uniform. The revolution is not televised. Media perception is forced down the throats of closed minds. So it's lies in the headlines, And generations of supremacy resulting in your ignorant, privileged eyes. We breathe the same and we bleed the same, But still, we don't see the same. Be thankful we are God-fearing Because we do not seek revenge. We seek justice, we are past fear. We are fed up eating your s**t. Because you think your so-called "black friend" Validates your wokeness and erases your racism. That kind of uncomfortable conversation is too hard for your trust-fund pockets to swallow, To swallow the strange fruit hanging from my family tree. Because of your audacity To say all men are created equal in the eyes of God, But disparage a man based on the color of his skin. Do not say you do not see color. When you see us, see us! We can't breathe… |