I know that the past two weeks have been hard for all of us following what happened to Mr. Floyd and the developments in the United States. If you would like to talk to someone about this (or anything else that is troubling you), feel free to contact me via email. In the meantime, take comfort in knowing that you have the power to be fair and just in all of your dealings, no matter how small the scale. Indeed, it is often the smallest of scales that make the biggest impact.
Please watch the videos below (you will notice that they were released several years ago in the context of other cases of police brutality):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8AfohSyqAw
1. What does the NYPD implicit bias training entail?
2. What spurred the NYPD to incorporate this training into their police academy's curriculum?
3. What is implicit bias?
4. How has implicit bias training been critiqued?
5. What are some of the principles of implicit bias training that are addressed in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7aicxAM-Ds
1. How can the US Justice Department intervene in police departments?
2. What is the ACLU?
Read the following article published this past week in The Atlantic and answer the questions below:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/how-actually-fix-americas-police/612520/
1. What is meant by the "hyperlocalized nature of policing" and why is it a problem, according to the article's authors?
2. What, according to the article, should happen on the federal, state, and local levels with regards to "fixing" the police in the US?
Some of you will have seen #defundthepolice on protest signs and on Twitter and Instagram. This article does a good job of explaining what this means:
As a student of multilingual communication, what would you include in police training that could prevent abuse of force in the future?
On a personal note, this article was also recently published by The Atlantic by my beloved college sociology professor:
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/i-cant-breathe-using-tear-gas-during-pandemic/612673/
To continue with our protest music theme, you might be interested in this song compilation:
https://www.cbc.ca/music/black-lives-matter-30-powerful-songs-about-police-brutality-anti-black-racism-and-revolution-1.5598202
Questions presented in today's Zoom session (our next Zoom session will take place on June 22nd from 16-17):
Why is college so expensive in the United States?
As a student of multilingual communication, what would you include in police training that could prevent abuse of force in the future?
Will Trump win in 2020?
Where do we see the differences between the US’ and Germany’s risk aversion in their respective responses to corona?
Why do you think that the majority of people from US/Americans find protest effective?
Will free college ever be implemented on a national scale in the US?
How are the associations people from the US/Americans make with “racism” and the associations Germans make with “Rassismus” different?
In what ways is Netflix a product of US culture?
How have protest songs influenced and shaped pop culture in the United States?
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