Presentation Day #2

The presentations this week were all pretty solid. The colorblind ones were both the same topic, but there were definitely presented very differently. I felt somewhat bad for the first presenter as she seemed very pressed for time. The second colorblind presentation utilized videos and images in her presentation which kept my attention going. They made good points in the fact that color-blind racism is something that exists. A lot of "white feminists" and people in general tend to exclude race in the discussion, almost under the assumption that "we all bleed red" kind of idea is enough to discuss social justice matter. To look at it, yes, all humans bleed red, but the culture and identity behind race inherently affects our lives whether we like it or not. So the discussion of race is important. Such as the two girls illustrated in their presentations. To ignore the concept of race is racist in itself. People identify by their race, as most of the time they are connected to culture. Being Taiwanese, I identify with my family's culture. If one were to discuss a feminist issue with me, such as lack of women representation in the media, then it would hurt to have the fact that there is even LESS Asian women represented in the media.

With the examples they show, the fact that they were not concerned with the race of Trayvon, shows that they are ignoring the main culprit of the murder in the first place. These days people have been ignoring color in order to also fit themselves into the topic. Such as the issue of "Black lives matter" and people 'correcting' it and saying "ALL lives matter." Which isn't the issue at hand.

There were also a few with really intriguing topics. Such as the beauty blogger one and the hip-hop one. However, I cannot remember much of them to say anything. But they were definitely very unique topics that I would have never thought of popping up.