Leah's Blog

  The Blacker the Berry           1,127 people were killed by police officers in 2020. Of those 1,127 people, black people made up 28% of those people, despite only making up 13% of the population. There were only 18 days in 2020 where police went without killing someone. This alone is enough evidence to come to the conclusion police brutality and inequality still exists, and black people and other people of color are still forced to face such inequality on a day to day basis. Award-winning music artist Kendrick Lamar has touched on the topic of inequality and police brutality through the poetic lyricism in many of his songs. One of these songs, The Blacker The Berry really focuses on this. He talks about how he came to an epiphany at the age of 16 how he is distinguishable based on his race, and looked down upon/oppressed for his race and being black. In his lyrics he includes traits that many oppressors and uneducated stereotypers use to attribu...

The New Yorker is a weekly magazine that leans more towards the liberal side. Throughout the years and as the New Yorker publishes their weekly issues, many of the written pieces are accompanied by cover art and illustrations. In this case, the focus of this post is going to be directly on one piece by Cristoph Niemann, titled "Evolution". In this piece by Cristoph Niemann, we see 4 different quadrants, all including the same man in each quadrant. In the top left quadrant, we see him staring at a large machine of some sort with various amenities and what appears to be a bright, large screen. In the second (top right) quadrant, the same man is slightly hunched over and looked into a slightly smaller but still large bright screen. The machine in this quadrant is still large, but has far less amenities and is slightly smaller than the machine in the first quadrant. In both of these quadrants, there is a plug connected to an outlet in the wall, and such outlet presumably leads to...