Orlando Galan Blog #4 JSTOR

Hello everyone! Took me a while to decide what 3 topics I wanted to blog about, but I finally made up my mind. The first article that I decided to blog about is Viral Black Death. The reason I decided to blog about this is because like many of you know, black deaths by police have been all over the media recently. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube you name it, black deaths by police have been occurring a lot lately and have been shared across the media. Yes police brutality has always been a big deal and very common however, the problem is not just that, it is the fact that recently the brutality is between white police officers against black population, therefore creating huge problems with African American citizens as they are being targeted and discriminated against. Thanks to the easily attained technology we have now a days, the inappropriate and highly illegal acts of these racist police officers have been caught on video for the public to see what some authorities are actually doing. The reasons I am encouraged to say “racist” is due to the fact that I have seen plenty of videos myself over the media and because in the article “Viral Black Deaths”, Da Bois mentions the presumption of black criminality “the idea that all black are assumed to be criminals” for being a reason African American citizens are being targeted. Now don’t get me wrong, as negative as I might sound on this blog towards police officers, I have absolutely no hate towards them in a general point of view. In fact, I even have being a police officer as one of my career options in the future! However, the corrupt cops...smh they have to go. We rely on the authorities to show us what is right, protect us and keep a functioning and safe community. I understand that police officers have their way of thinking and practices to protect themselves, but excessive force and using racial profiling will always be wrong and illegal and should never be the case. However, if people decide to do illegal things, I believe police officers have the right to do their job so that at the end, everyone is safe and criminals are off the streets.

And then I read “Liberals Are The Sort Of People Who…” and I gotta say, Liberals will be offended after reading that article. To conclude the article, it is pretty much saying that if the United States becomes ruined and unsuccessful, Liberals are to blame for. Personally, I don’t know much about politics so if this is an accurate description of what a Liberal believes in, it seems very contradictory and doesn’t make much sense. Any comments or point of views on this? I would like to express myself on some of the things stated in this article. Again, I don’t know much about politics, and again I don’t know if things stated in this article are accurate, so please take no offence and please educate me or elaborate it/me if wrong. But the Liberal side of politics isn’t making much sense to me. How do they believe that cops are generally racist and abuse their authority, but yet they should be the only ones who have guns? How do you call other people out for being racist yet imply African Americans are “too stupid, poor or lazy” to go vote? How do they oppose not drilling any new oil wells yet, don’t want gas prices to go up? At this point, I believe I have been somewhat educated on a Liberals views, but this article is just to bash on them and I’m assuming Liberals would have an explanation for all this. After reading the article and elaborating on it, I can see how politics can be interesting and why things can get heated sometimes.

have always known that the headline of anything needs to be creative enough to catch the reader’s attention, but after reading Chi Luu’s article on how the language of headlines work, I learned a couple things. Personally, when I see a headline that is important enough or of an interest of mine, I pick it up (assuming it’s a book, magazine etc.) or click in it if it’s a website or link. And of course I already know there is a good chance that it might not be what it is or what I want to see. So right away, I skim through it and if I don’t immediately see or read anything interesting, I disregard it. The article speaks about clickbait, which of course, everyone hates! Such a waste of time especially when it’s strictly spam or fake content that has no relevancy. I didn’t know that it has been such a problem that Facebook is planning on a way to detect clickbait, and banning it forever. That’s good to hear since I am a user myself, and rely on Facebook for some of the most important news and information, along with other social media stuff that requires links that have potential to be used as nothing but clickbait.