Month: September 2016

Schindler’s piece was definitely moving. She wrote about a lot of things, that me as practically still a teenager would have never realized. She caught my eye on the different features that she was explaining to us in her piece. I made a lot of connections to what she was talking about. Such as when she says,”Although the Atlanta, Georgia, metropolitan area is known for its car-centric, sprawling development patterns, it has a subway system: the Metropolitan Atlanta Regional Transit Authority (MARTA).6 Wealthy, mostly white residents of the northern Atlanta suburbs have vocally opposed efforts to expand MARTA into their neighborhoods for the reason that doing so would give people of color easy access to suburban communities. The lack of public-transit connections to areas north of the city makes it difficult for those who rely on transit—primarily the poor and people of color—to access job opportunities located in those suburbs.”(intro,paragraph 2,line 6,7, and 8) This made me think about the different troubles we are having in Atlanta with the transit today. Cobb County refuses to have anything to do with the Metropolitan Atlanta Regional Transit Authority. They have developed a different system called Cobb County Transit. When I read the things that Schindler was saying about how things were built and why they were built was telling my that obviously this is still a problem today. The ethos used in this writing, was trying to appeal to the audience as if the author was trying to show us how architects would have certain principles on how they would build these types of things surrounded by neighborhoods that were I guess you can say are more important, or private. In a certain instance, I thought as if this was done to separate the rich from the poor at first, but when I went back to where she first started to talk about the history, and after I had a better understanding of what was being said, I came to the conclusion that back then, many people thought that the African American community was poor, and the caucasian community was wealthy or rich. All in all the text was very moving, and I do recommend this as a important reading for anyone who ever takes this class because it, made be go out and look at different pathways, roads, and bridges that were around in the Metro Atlanta area. It was very understanding and it was slightly brief but very comprehensive.

This image was a screenshot of the tweet that Donald Trump put out about Dwayne Wade’s cousin, once again causing a uproar in the African American community.

Well what do you know, Donald Trump is back at it again with the harassing . He is stating that because Dwayne Wade’s cousin was shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago, he thinks just because that African Americans will vote for him now, and after he is elected that none of this stuff will happen anymore. WOW! What a way to get African Americans on your side. His emotional intelligence in this tweet is less that zero. He has no sympathy for the African American community, and from the looks of it, he never will. In my opinion he sounds legitimately sickening, and he is making himself look like a national disgrace. The horrific thing about it is, four hours later after putting the tweet out, he goes back and says,” My condolensces  to Dwayne Wade and his family, on the loss of Nykea Aldridge. They are in my thoughts and prayers.” He is such a fake! Trump has been making appeals to the African American community in recent weeks. He has also said what does the African American community have to loose by supporting him. Apparently A LOT!