Black Lives Matter
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Welcome to our website,
This is the final project for our Social Media and ME course at Place Cartier Adult Education Centre. Throughout this fall semester 2020, we enjoyed exploring and critically reflecting on different issues related directly and indirectly to social media and what it means to become an online learner throughout the COVID pandemic.
With everything that has been going on, especially in the past year in the United States and throughout the world surrounding issues of colour and race, in this final project, we are moving beyond exploring who we are as digital citizens. By creating this website, we stand together, united as a class, to make a statement and to affirm our views about the #Black Lives Matter movement and protest the systemic racism, racial profiling and worldwide discrimination towards people of colour.
Through a current event and important international movement that began as a hashtag in 2013, we trace the impact of social media on the BLM movement and we use a social media platform to share our views & values about racism & discrimination. Our goal is to better understand what this movement is about, how social media has impacted it and how we can act on it locally and virtually within the context of our class and school community to support our black community members and create a more peaceful world.
Students created the pages on this website, they worked together and inspired each other as each page evolved. They chose to research an aspect of #Black Lives Matter online that is of personal interest or has a personal connection to them from a certain perspective (history, art, culture, politics, racism, discrimination, violence, inequality, men, women, social awareness). Student voices lead the way in educating ourselves and others towards a future that is more fair, equitable, safe and open to all. In my students' words: A world in which our Humanity prevails over Hate!
I hope you enjoy what we created.
Caroline
What you can find on our website
Stories about some of the amazing things people of color have accomplished such as Ruby Bridges, Viola Desmond & Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech;
Images of art, murals, marches, protests that bring awareness to the BLM movement;
Quotes that can make a change;
Videos about Admaud Arbery and George Floyd Deaths and why police brutality needs to stop;
Names and images of people who have lost their lives;
The voices of students, their interests & their personal connections to BLM.
For students, #BlackLivesMatter means...
Anti-racism.
Safety, comfort, and equal treatment of everyone, no matter their race.
Showing that just because black people are a different color, doesn't mean they should be treated differently than others.
Spreading awareness to a serious problem of racial inequality and prejudice towards people of color & making serious change.
Stopping the racial discrimination everywhere, one planet one race.
Speaking out against the police brutality and systemic racism as well as the thousands of violent incidents that happen to black people that aren’t recorded, aren’t reported or aren’t afforded the outrage they deserve.
The goals of our website
To spread more awareness and to stand up together for change.
To argue that people of different race or color aren't any different from everyone else.
To learn about the history of black lives matter & better understand why and when did racism start.
To showcase the heroes, their stories and the art that has been created in their honor.
To share the names of people from the black community that have died due to police brutality because of the color of their skin, like George Floyd.
To look into things that can be done to help the cause.
To explore the impact of on TV/Social media/Radio on the BLM movement.
To express our concern that what's happening isn't fair & to look into Where racial bias exists in systems and how we can have those policies or actions changed.
To better understand how the death's of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd re ignited the movement of BLM .
Students in our class feel it is important for us to stand up because:
We all have a voice and if we use it we can make a change. We are stronger in numbers.
We need everyone to come together to make a difference.
The more people stand up the more it gets noticed.
No matter what skin color we are, we should all be treated fairly and equally.
Our voices matter, they are the source of change, if we don't stand up nothing will change.
If you are interested in learning more about what students are learning in Social Media and ME or Preventing Dependency, the two option courses I teach at Place Cartier, click on the images below.
