Response: "The Digital Culture Shift: Moving From Scale to Power to Achieve Racial Justice"

Area 1:

 In the edited transcript of the Netroots Nation 2016 keynote plenary " The Digital Culture Shift: Moving From Scale to Power to Achieve Racial Justice" from several speakers discussing Black Lives, Muslim rights, Migrant rights, Migrant power, and Racial Justice in the 21st century. There is a prominent threat of giving powerful platforms control over information and capitalizing on it--making money off others suffering. That means the ability to speak freely and openly about the struggles of being a minority comes with a hefty price tag attached to it. And a society in which some people view the color of your skin as a channel for entertainment. As well as choosing when to use your voice to speak on race, religion, or sexual orientation. This means if you are Mexican, Latino, Hispanic, Puerto Rican, etc. does not force you to always have to report or discuss immigration or ICE. You are not the deciding vote that stands for all one race. African Americans, Mexicans, Native Americans, Muslims use these platforms to share their story and moving forward from these tragic events.  

Area 2:

I agree, that it is very easy to feed into the media sensationalize these cop murdering African Americans.   Getting caught up in the emotional and heartbreaking events and do nothing, say nothing about it. But yell at the cops in the tv for allowing and standing around and doing nothing about the injustice. Time passes by nothing happens. And it happens again and again. And feels like the only time that people see any news on African American is murders or crimes like reality tv. A good example of media using African Americans as entertainment is Donald Glover's music video and song "This Is America". It is very accurate on how some people view African Americans in the United States.