Raise Your Voice

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Raise your voice

Betekenissen van woorden

• slur / pejorative - scheldwoord 
• segregration - segregatie ook wel rassen scheiding 
• Jim Crow - Periode in Amerika (1880 - 1965) waarin er allerlei segregatie wetten van kracht waren
• intentionally - met opzet
• hazardous - gevaarlijk
• frisk - fouilleren

What do you think of when you hear the word 'WOKE'?

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How is the word 'woke'
used nowadays?

1. as a pejorative
2. as a compliment
3. as a battering ram and a battle cry
4. as a warning

What were the Scottsboro Boys accused of?

1. marrying white women
2. raping white women
3. robbing white women
4. dating white women

Definition of woke

WOKE:

African-American English synonym for the word awake.
Has since the 1930s  been used to refer to awareness of social and political issues affecting African Americans.
So it is basically asking attention for issues involving racism.
Nowadays it also covers LGBTQ+ issues.

Can you name other organisations that you could call 'woke'?

Is America a racist country?

Of course not everyone in the US is racist, however there are some practices in the United States that that were intentionally aimed at people of colour and still affect them to this day, for instance the practice of redlining.
There are also policies that perhaps unintentionally target people of colour, like for instance stop-and-frisk .

Redlining

This was a practice in the 1930's where neighbourhoods were colour coded. A red neighbourhood pointed at the presence of black people and was considered 'hazardous'. 
It was near impossible to get a mortgage to buy a house in red areas. Neighbourhoods became segregated by race.

Stop-and-frisk

The police can stop somebody they think may have committed a crime and frisk that person to determine if they have any weapons on them. Figures show that in 2023 just 6% of people that were stopped-and-frisked were white. The remaining 94% were people of colour of whom 59% were black.

How do you think someone would feel if they
were stopped-and-frisked
multiple times a week by police officers?

What do you think
the word 'bail' means?

1. Geld.
2. Borg die je soms kan betalen om vrijgelaten te worden tot je proces begint.
3. Balen dat je bent opgepakt voor iets dat je niet hebt gedaan.
4. Dat je schuldig bent.

Kalief Browder

• May 2010: 16 years old
• walking home from a party
• suspected of stealing a back pack
•  sent to Rikers Island prison
• assaulted by staff and inmates
• 800 days in solitary confinement
• refused several plea bargains
• May 2013: charges were dropped
• commited suicide in 2015

Botham Jean

• September 2018
• 26 year old accountant
• was in his home eating ice cream
• shot dead by off duty police officer Amber Guyger 
• she lived in the same building
• claims she thought it was her apartment and that he was a burglar

Black Lives Matter #BLM

Kalief Browder and Botham Jean are on a long list of people of colour who did not have to die, regardless of what they did or not do. 
Black Lives Matter started in 2013, but gained momentum after the 2020 killing of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin.

It' s a political and social movement that aims to highlight racism, discrimination, and racial inequality experienced by black people and to promote anti-racism. Its primary concerns are police brutality and racially motivated violence against black people.

Does Black Lives Matter mean that white lives don't matter?

What are the main objectives
of Black Lives Matter?

1. to highlight racism, discrimination
2. to highlight racial inequality experienced by black people
3. to promote anti-racism
4. to highlight police brutality and racially motivated violence against black people