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2020 is changing cities around the world
Cities are more important for our lives than many might think. Cities are densely populated settlements with diversified industries, uniting manufacturing, tech sector, healthcare, education, and a long-range of other services available at the highest level. Cities are innovative and powerful, shifting status quos and influencing the rest of the world. Every aspect of the cities’ structure plays a crucial role in shaping their uniqueness, charm, success, and the future.
By Giorgi Mikhelidze4 years ago in The Swamp
Say His Name. Top Story - June 2020.
High off of our pain that we continue to be belittled as if our lives don’t matter. To march for our lives to be visibly as equal as the lives of those whose skin looks just like yours. There are whites protesting with us peacefully as there are white people tagging buildings and looting, but some are not even doing it in the name of George Floyd. To walk among roads to shout an innocent mans life that was taken, because he was seen as a threat, feeling the need to silence us when we have been silent for too long. When we live in a world that is unjust and bite our tongues as if it is okay, as if it is safer to be quiet but we still can die by your hands even when we are quiet. To hear my brothers and sisters crying out in pain because, us turning our backs and walking away was not enough for you. To see the media focus our story on people that allow you to believe we are vicious animals needing to be tamed. To feel the need to put extra force on black people because the color of our skin alone is threatening to you even as we lie on our backs to be detained. To hear them cry out “ I can’t breathe” and not be showed mercy.
By UNpretentious4 years ago in The Swamp
Dear Lorelei: I Can’t Explain
Dear Lorelei, It's June first, twenty-twenty and the world is in chaos. We've been in quarantine or bored in the house and in the house bored since March thirteenth or at least, that's when my job sent me home. But I truly believe that is for the best right now. You will be four in two short months and trying to explain the world to you has been hard and heartbreaking the entire year. I've been telling you the world is sick but it's more than that and getting so much worse. The day you came to me and asked me if you were super good, if you could go back to school the next day, I cried and I prayed harder than I've prayed in a long time.
By Michelle Schultz4 years ago in The Swamp
No Half Measure's
As 2020 began the people of America were bombarded with the collective might of everything that had been suppressed. The government did not have any plan of action when it came to a pandemic. People were afraid and suffering which led to a spike in issues that had been easy to ignore up until then. Police brutality, racism, corruption, and able-ism all played a part in the current turmoil. If it wasn’t for social media there is a chance that there wouldn’t be any conversation, much like in the past, but that is what makes this the revolution that will change the future.
By Respectfully Sandra4 years ago in The Swamp
The Fear To Protest
Putting my feelings to words lately has been the most the daunting task these past three weeks. Finding the words to express apathy, numbness, anger, and sadness over the murders of Amaud Arbery who was hunted down shot and killed while doing something most of us do everyday, jogging. Breanna Taylor who was shot eight times in her own home by police who didn’t even have the correct address and the straw that broke the camel’s back the cold blooded murder of George Floyd.
By Shanda Gantt4 years ago in The Swamp
White person's take on white silence
So in recent days there's been some conversation about white silence when it comes to the injustice that happens to the black community. There's been a lot of outrage when it comes to the silence of white people. I wanted to address the silence coming from the white community.
By Lena Bailey4 years ago in The Swamp
The Mounting Crisis Within
One can not help think that the horrific actions of 4 police officers set off a chain of events when they brutally murdered George Floyd. They knew full well that their actions decimated the rule of law, violated civil rights, and out right committed murder with malicious intent. As a result coinciding with other police atrocities of the past that also targeted African Americans have unleashed what just could be the spark that ignites the flames of open rebellion.
By Dr. Williams4 years ago in The Swamp
News Reaction Omnibus
This Article will address certain things in the news. I am going to be strict to the point in this one. This because what I am going to say does not fill the prerequisite of a lengthy article. Therefore, I will just give a quick few paragraphs on the events affecting the world today.
By Halden Mile4 years ago in The Swamp