Dylan

These lyrics show that not everyone’s hard work pays off. Everyone wants to live the american dream but may spend their whole lives making just enough to keep a roof over their head. Those who get the opportunity to fulfill their dreams are the lucky ones.

Hashtags prove that posts on twitter have a deeper meaning than the short sentence they might be. Posting a hashtag shows that deep connection, but may also refer their quote to some movement. Twitter can be a place that connects people under similar oppression, and the hashtags give them a way of fighting back in a sense.

Once again, the media focused not on state action buton the worthiness of black bodies. Local news immediatelyran profiles of Rice’s parents, noting that they both had “vi-olent pasts” (his father had been charged with domestic vi-olence and his mother with drug possession). This history,reporters argued, could help explain why Tamir Rice wouldbe inclined to play with a toy gun in a public place. - #Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the US,” Bonilla and Rosa

This quote brings out a lot of truths in modern day media. Blacks are always made out to be criminals no matter what an issue may be. Something that stands out to me on this issue is the viral posts quoted “If they gunned me down, which photo would they use.” These posts consist of two photos, one being good, and the other bad, obviously referring that the media would use the bad one. This points out that the media always tries to portray the bad side of a person to make the story seem against blacks, which is totally unfair.

This quote shows how comforting it might be for blacks to be able to talk to each other without dealing with the rest of the world. By being out with society they may feel oppressed in daily life just because of who they are. Saying they can get rid of the feeling by just being alone really shows a lot.