Social Justice Event 25 Short Films
For my social Justice event I watched a series of short videos that had to the topic of race. Most of the videos ended up being interviews with people of various ethnic backgrounds. One video in particular that struck me was an interview titled "A conversation about growing up black." A statement by a 17 year old boy struck me as odd. He and his brother had gone outside and he was wearing his snowman Pajamas, he hadn't even left the immediate area of his house and wasn't even dressed properly when a cop stopped them. This reminded me of the All lives matter article by Kevin Roose, while no one was injured in the boys story it struck me as odd. Why should be stopped when he is obviously not suspicious has no place to conceal weapons or anything that could be considered illegal. People should not be accused, stopped or persecuted for doing nothing wrong. Man shoots at boy asking for Directions as I have named it is a story of a boy simply asking for directions and...