https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGAeb9R_FFE
SPIKE LEE JUST MADE A VIDEO OF ERIC GARNER'S DEATH SPLICED WITH RADIO RAHEEM FROM HIS MOVIE, "DO THE RIGHT THING."
http://www.attn.com/stories/411/spike-lee-just-made-video-eric-garners-death-spliced-radio-raheem-do-right-thing
Both Raheem and Garner were big black men; although Garner was known widely as a "gentle giant," the cultural representations of big black males in the media are ubiquitously threatening. The author and cultural critic James Baldwin referred to this phenomenon in a 1968 interview with Esquire Magazine, in which he stated the following:
I really have no quarrel particularly with the policemen. I can see the trouble they're in. They're hopelessly ignorant and terribly frightened. They believe everything they see on television, as most people in this country do. They are endlessly respectable, which means to say they are Saturday-night sinners. The country has got the police force it deserves and of course if a policeman sees a black cat in what he considers a strange place he's going to stop him; and you know of course the black cat is going to get angry. And then somebody may die. But it's one of the results of the cultivation in this country of ignorance. Those cats in the Harlem street, those white cops; they are scared to death and they should be scared to death. But that's how black boys die, because the police are scared. And it's not the policemen's fault; it's the country's fault.
DO YOU AGREE WITH THE DECISION OF THE GRAND JURY IN THE ERIC GARNER CASE? GIVE YOUR OPINION IN A SHORT PARAGRAPH, A DRAWING, RAP SONG.
BUILD ON THE GREAT DISCUSSION WE HAD IN CLASS TODAY.
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