Media 10 blog

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

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

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