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Does looting tarnish the message of protesting?

In an article posted by the Inquiry in 2014 , the writer discusses a lot of the issues we are seeing today with protesting. The article was published in August of 2014. The focus was on the protestors for Black Lives Matter and the unjust murder of Michael Brown Jr. While reading the article there are so many parallels discussed that people are currently discussing now. Mass protests are occurring, along with groups of people looting and starting riots. In 2014 what started as conversation of justice, moved to people discussing looting and whether that is the right thing to do. There have been debates time and time again in defense of the looting, and others who strongly oppose it. There is also the issue of when the media begins to focus solely on the looting, and steers away from the bigger picture. These discussions are what I am seeing a lot of today through social media and the news. I myself saw myself only thinking of the looting because that was all I was seeing through my fee
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Indigenous life under quarantine

In this Los Angeles Times article posted at the beginning of the county wide stay at home orders, the writer describes how the indigenous people of Mexico dealt with their mandatory quarantine orders during the smallpox plague . In the 16th century a group of both Nahua and Spanish scholars were enclosed from the world inside a convent in Mexico City. The article describes the dedication of the scholars to try and document the events happening around them and trying to survive at the same time. What was produced was the highly studied Florentine Codex. The codex is made up of 12 handwritten books. Each of the codices is written on both Nahuatl, the indigenous language of the Nahua people, and Spanish. The codex was first written in Nahuatl, and then interpreted into spanish. The Nahua scribes interviewed their elders to get their recollections of life before the Spanish invasion. The Nahua described the encounters with the spaniards and the terrible things done to the people, as well
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CoronaVirus Jail Cells

In Castaic, California several inmates in Los Angeles County jail have been trying to infect themselves with COVID-19. In recent news, the government had decided to release inmates from prisons to make room for more social distancing. In the beginning of April the jail had no cases of the virus. By the middle of the month several inmates were tested positive. Inmates were seen on security footage sharing the same cup of water and passing around and sniffing the same mask. Prisoners who are tested positive for CoronaVirus are released. This is most likely the reason as to why they would want to infect themselves. The sheriff said he is saddened to see actions like this take place, and hopes to educate inmates on the harm they are causing to themselves and others.
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The virus doesn't discriminate, but more black and brown people are dying at higher rates

One thing we know for certain about the Corona Virus is that anyone can become infected, no matter what age, gender, background, or race you are. The Los Angeles Times recently published an article explaining that we are finding that more people of color in California, specifically the Latino and Black communities are being hit harder. Why? Most of the essential workers who are employed on the frontlines and in the grocery stores are people of color. More people of color at younger ages are contracting the virus. This data is the opposite for Californians who are White or Asian. Looking at statistics, more white and asians are not working on the frontlines and have the luxury of working from home. The socioeconomic disparities don't help with this either. We know that in lower income communities is where black and brown people can be found and this cities are located where they are surrounded by freeways and do not have access to healthy food resources. This can lead to weaker imm
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And in the midst of a global pandemic...

Again straying away from my chosen topic of this blog, I felt this news should be shared. As I was scrolling through twitter earlier today I saw LACMA was trending and clicked on it as I thought it would just contain information about a virtual tour, similar to how other Los Angeles museums have been doing. To my unpleasant surprise I saw several articles about how the museum is currently being demolished. In the article linked , it explains how that the beloved museu, has already negan being torn down. The Los Angeles Museum is being torn down to be part of a Peter Zumthor building project that costs $750-million. This is very sad to see, especially with so many other things currently going on. The LACMA was a great place for teenagers, children, and families to attend. They held amazing exhibits. In highschool I remember going to free teen nights that they would host and they would allow kids to create their own art. The article does not really tell what the purpose of this new buil
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Asian-Americans are not a virus

With the growing number of cases of COVID-19 the number of hate crimes and discriminatory acts are also rising. The United States is not new to the terrible acts of hate crimes and xenophobia. We have seen this before plenty of times throughout history and will see it it again and again in the future. This time the subject of the hate from Americans is the Asian community. Since the first few cases of coronavirus that popped up in the U.S., ignorant people began to make their comments. There have been many social media posts and harassment that has been reported to police. In this article posted by PBS, the hostility Asian-Americans face in the outside world is discussed. Lisa Wool-Rim  Sjöblom, is a Korean-Swedish artist who is addressing these current issues through her artwork. She created her series of work from the hashtag #IAmNotAVirus that was initially created by French Asians. With her illustrations she hopes it provides a better understanding of these issues for people. The
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This week, I wanted to look at another city other than Los Angeles that is being affected by this issue. Inglewood, California is known to be one of the less affluent neighborhoods. This city is also home to the famous Forum and Hollywood Park Casino. Recently the city announced the building of a new stadium for the Los Angeles Rams. in the past we have seen a high percentage of violence in this city but times have changed. The bringing of this new stadium is very exciting because it will also bring so many new businesses as well. but with, also comes higher rent expenses. In the article this is what is discussed. Members of the community and the mayor of Inglewood are interviewed and expressed their opinions. rising rents will make it almost impossible for the majority black and brown population. The majority of people living here are middle class on a median income. This does bring frustration to the families who are already struggling as it is. The city is aware of these issues but
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