Sunday, October 25, 2020

Diversity - Creating Art Through Song - EDUC 6357

 Jernigan and Daniels states "Racial stress can emerge when systems are oblivious or unwilling to acknowledge the presence of racism and its negative implications on the development of Black children and adolescents who are forced to find ways to cope with the ongoing psychological stress" (2011). As a consequence of law enforcement abuse of authority and lives loss, the current pandemic, and other life traumas locally and abroad with  no clear direction or sign of improvements I relish in children ability to be resilient. While educators do their best to curve the impact of racism or any form of discrimination by educating students on ways and reasons to treat each other equally, parents, media, leaders, and society as a whole must also acknowledge and play a role to remove any bias they have towards people of color. Over 30 years ago there was a song called "We are the World" that I believe equates to how we should embrace life and each other so that black and brown children and their families can live an equally fulfilling privileged life and not be limited according to the color of their skin. Below I have shared the original song and a modern version that was created as result of a tragedy in Haiti. Listen to the words closely. 


We Are The World 25 For Haiti - Official Video


WE ARE THE WORLD - Original - 1985





 

References

Laureate Education (2020). Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma: Racial Trauma in the Lives of Black Children and Adolescents: Challenges and Clinical Implications. Extra_Racial Trauma _2011_ Jernigan & Daniel.pdf 

We Are The World Haiti (2010). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glny4jSciVI

We Are The World (1985). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M7c-JOnPdw

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Anonymous said...

Violanda,
This is the perfect song to include for this assignment. We all are different, and we come from different backgrounds, but this song shows us that we are all in one world. We can learn from one another, and come together, and make something beautiful.

October 26, 2020 at 4:10 PM

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Personal Childhood Web

I have such a long list of people who have made a great impact on my life as a child. My mother is 1 of 10 children and my father is 1 of 12. However, the five people I must name are my mom, my father, my granny, my little brother Kelvin and my English teacher Mrs. Wells. For my mothers' family I am the oldest grandchild. That is a interesting role to have. Everyone looks to you for your first everything. Everyone wants to show you so much and it has all been useful at some point in my life. My aunts and uncles on both sides taught me a great deal. If I were to sum it up I would say that it equated to love and happiness. I was given so much love and support and as I got older I got better with being able to demonstrate the same love and support. My happiness was genuinely their happiness. From cooking to fishing to picking cotton I got to experience the things I encountered in my life by my choice.
My granny was and is my nurse, my ear, my box of all things good.
My brother was my first responsibility and confidant. I value the bond that was created between he and I.
I can say that every teacher that I had growing up had a positive impact on my life as well. My English teacher Mrs. Wells more so as she had been around to teach a few of my aunts and uncles. From the moment she discovered who my family was it became an automatic expectation of hers that I set an example with the others around me in how to speak and carry oneself. This is still something I feel I carry with me today.