Monday, May 4, 2015

An Emotional Week

This past week in class was emotional and politically charged. The riots and destruction around the city of Baltimore made it difficult to focus on just about everything but what was going on in our city. In class on Tuesday, we briefly touched on the subject. It was clear that there was a lot of unanswered questions along with confusion as to why this was happening at our doorstep. I was particularly worried mainly because I work in Baltimore and wasn't really sure how long the situation was going to be going on. I think it was important for us especially in this class to discussion what was going on mainly because we had touched on a lot of subjects surrounding the 68 riots and it almost felt eerily similar. Besides talking about the on going problems we were assigned our last listening assignment. For this assignment I listened to Melissa Moore's recording. She is the founder and program facilitator for a new youth lead and design social justice organization called y lead. She spoke about how there is still a divide between the new group of kids that come in and the elders. She also gave an insight into how there are changes happening but how those changes are taking time. I really liked how she asked Neliah and Gaby what they thought should be different about Station North and incorporated them into the conversation. I'm anxiously waiting to see how the radio piece will look in the long end, but I'm also feeling really burned out since its the last full week of classes and finals are coming up.




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