I am making extended comments on Sarah Kennedy's blog about Tricia Rose's How Structural Racism Works. Sarah's arguments all have wonderful points. Reading Sarah's blog truly reiterated, in a summarized form, Rose's points and the understanding of them.
It has been a recurring idea in this class and the readings we've been provided that education, knowledge and awareness are necessary to make change in the world we know. Obviously, awareness is a necessity to making a change in social justice. Sarah makes a great point that educating our society, whether it directly affects you or doesn't affect you at all, is important to make a step forward and try to break the cycle. Doing research and combining all of the research that has been done is an excellent way to educate yourself and others, and to begin making that change that we all want to see.
A really great idea that I read in Sarah's blog and watched in Rose's video was that a lot of people have the mindset that if it doesn't affect them, then they don't need to worry about it. That's definitely not the case at all! Sarah brought up a really great point that the Black Lives Matter movement brought a lot of attention and awareness to those matters. Personally, I didn't engage much in educating myself with social justice matters really until the BLM movement was so prominent. I knew there were issues but as a young teenager, I wasn't really aware of any of it. Since then, I've tried my best to stay educated and at least try to make people aware of social justice issues by reposting articles, talking about it with my peers and posting things on my Instagram stories. Even if you can't do a ton, making people aware can have almost a butterfly effect to make change.
Overall, I think Sarah's blog was absolutely spectacular at summarizing and speaking to Tricia Rose's points in her argument. Great job Sarah, thank you for sharing!
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