Week Beginning - 22nd February 2021
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8KAN
Milosz Bieganski
Courtney Blackbird
Week Beginning - 8th February 2021
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When you scroll through the everlasting list of the world’s problems, you mainly see issues such as climate change and homelessness but deep within the list lies one of the biggest and worst problems for humanity- Racial Discrimination. Humans are exposed to it regularly and it needs to stop as it can be life threatening. It has the power to become so extreme that it can cause suicide.
71% of black people in Europe have been faced with Racial Discrimination at least once in their lifetime. How is this acceptable? In January 2016, it was 58%. That’s a 13% increase in just 5 years. Who let this happen? Discrimination is wrong- I don’t know how some people can’t drill it into their head and stop discriminating people. In the USA, the death rate of black Americans is 2.5 times higher than that of a white American.
In the days of my youth, I, myself, was subjected to this cruel sin. I was laughed at and bullied because of the colour of my skin, I was picked on by the teachers because I was black. This shouldn’t happen to an adult, yet alone a child. Who said it was okay? Who said that we should presume that all black people are dumb? Who let this happen?
In 2018, 88% of police stops in New York City involved black people whereas only 10% involved white people. You can’t tell me this isn’t wrong. And if you say that it’s just a coincidence, how do you explain that on average, a black person with the same intensity of crime as a white person experiences 19.1% longer sentences? This isn’t acceptable.
I believe
racism shouldn’t happen. I believe racism is wrong. I believe that if you
disagree with me, being racist is your passion. Racism is wrong, no matter what
you say, it’s wrong. Erase your memory of all the racist things you’ve done and
start on a clean slate. Help the victims of Racial Discrimination rather than
make the situation worse. You wouldn’t like to be subjected to racism, would
you?
8KAN
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Student 2:
19 Busan road
Seoul, South Korea
02/02/2021
Dear future me,
This feels weird but you might be reading
this when you’re in South Korea. I'm writing this to tell you about
prejudice in this world, how inequality is quickly spreading like a virus
around the world, killing and taking peoples life away. The world today is
cruel, tempting and frightening. Anything can happen any second,
anything. Racial abuse, discrimination and injustice is taking control
over our own world. Why are some people like this, for what?
Growing older, you might find
yourself locked in a dark room, struggling to see the meaning of your life. You
might feel trapped and find yourself gasping for breath. You'll
feel suffocated, feel like you're dying when you realise
the true face of the world. You might be alone, re-thinking
everything. But it's not your fault, it’s never going to be your fault. Is sis
really going to suffer in her life? Why should you? You got to stay strong
no matter what. No one makes it out alive, so there' no reason for you to be
like this. Show everyone how strong you are and be courageous.
I hope you experience the best growing up,
making memories with your family and friends. I hope you enjoy life to the
fullest. I hope you can one day stop this discrimination towards coloured
people, I hope you will be able to make a change. A change for the best, to
help all those people on their own struggling because of some people. But
always remember, no matter what you’re going through you must be strong
because one day you will find yourself walking out of that tunnel and finding
yourself surrounded by happiness. And I hope you go to Korea soon. But
for now bye and expand on your imagination on changing the world, as
it might turn into reality one day.
8KAN
Thamizhini
Week Beginning - 25th January 2021
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Student 1:
Have you ever experienced racism? Racism has come to a point now where it is included in sport. Teams have been discriminated and that is for men and women. Sport is about Fun, enjoyment and sportsmanship, not prejudice and name calling. Sports is slowly being teared apart and we need to put a stop to this.
Racism is truly a horrible thing, but we need to fight it. We have talked to some disappointed football fans about this big issue in the community. We have talked to Jake and what he has to say is remarkably interesting.
“I’ve been watching football since I was a kid and to see my favourite sport being teared apart by racism is truly heart breaking. I try to donate to anti-racism campaigns to put a stop to this, but it doesn’t seem working.”
65% of football players experience discrimination, and 45% experience comments about their ethnicity. Racism is truly a horrible thing, but we need to fight it.
Throughout these last years some footballers have feared what might happen before a match. “You never know what people might think of you out there anymore, so you just got to do your best I guess” States a Man city player. Due to the coronavirus, the rate of racism has fallen but players expect them to rise when matches are able to be done. 33% of Football trainers are scared to see what happens on social media about this problem and some even tell their players to make their account private to prevent any unacceptable comments.
So, if YOU want to help, go to your school, and donate 2 pounds towards our StopToThis campaign, you can also donate through our website which is StopToThis.co.uk. We need to fight this; will you help out?
Student 2:
Have you ever been subjected to racism? If you have you probably felt upset, angry or frustrated. Perhaps you even felt all three. People who say that there only joking think that they are just having a laugh or think it won’t emotionally hurt someone when they have been racist because they are doing it for a joke but to the other person it isn’t.
We spoke to Usain Bolt and their story is a harrowing one. Bolt told us about stories of racism that he was part of and he wasn’t very happy when he was called racist things. It eventually got to the point on where he didn’t even want to school anymore. But one day he woke up and went to school and just ignored anything that anyone said and he didn’t let them hurt his feelings and even today he is still getting racist comments but he doesn’t let them get to him.
Things that can be done to prevent getting more racism involved cane be giving strikes to people who are racist, ban people from clubs or certain places if they are being blatantly racist.
A lot of racism starts in school as in 63% of black people starting getting racist comments to them from school and 60% of those people suffered from depression at around college and university.
Week Beginning - 18th January 2021
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Evidence |
Terminology |
Meaning / Effect
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One of my earliest memories was them winning the FA
Cup in 1982 against QPR, which was the start of my journey as a lifelong
Spurs fan. |
Anecdote |
Demonstrates that there was a clear love and passion
for football that was later tainted by the racism that was experienced. This
gives it a personal and emotive feeling. |
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The
three of us were standing amongst the crowd, all supporting the same team
feeling enthusiastic but still very nervous. Then, around 10 minutes
into the first half, we felt what we thought were rain drops on the back of
our necks. It was only when we turned around we realised that a group
of fans were spitting at us and started calling us ‘P*ki’, |
Anecdote |
It shows that racism is horrible and even if you are all
supporting the same team or however young you are it is there and it is
horrible and can ruin there life or there experience |
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Hate Crime continues to be on the
rise with racially or religiously motivated offences making up over 80% in
Wales |
Statistics |
These stats show that there has been a steep rise in the amount
of hate crime there is in wales and it has increased 80% which is a shocking
number |
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defeat the virus that is ‘Racism’ and let’s ‘Show
Racism the Red Card’ for good.
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We should eliminate racism for good |
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Task 5 – Ideas for interview questions for the writer of the blog
If you could ask the writer of the blog any 3 questions, what would they be?
What are you going to do to stop racism?
Why do you think racism is there a lot in sport and sporting events?
What can we do to stop racism from a young age?
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