From reading the texts, to go about improving our world, we
must begin by taking action and not just letting things happen. Martin Luther
King wrote a letter from Birmingham Jail re-stating his actions that caused him
to end up there and he justified why what he did wasn't anything wrong and that
he had a reason for that. He mentioned that negation was a good idea, but it
probably wasn't. Because after hundreds of years, justice still wasn't served.
He felt he needed to do something to change that and so he did with peaceful
protests. In “I Don't Know What to Do With Good White People,” Brit Bennet discusses
her experiences she has had with white people, good and bad. She even brings up
the Eric Gardner and Mike Brown incident. She brings up the word intentions a lot throughout her article
and how we never know the intentions of others, and how other people don’t know
our own intentions. In “Why the Revolution won’t be tweeted,” a lot of examples
were mentioned as well and how each one of the events and incidents had their
own way of reaching out to the world. The sit ins didn’t use twitter or facebook
yet they still had a huge impact on society. A lot of incidents today are known
because of twitter and facebook and I don’t think there is anything wrong with
that because what other better way to reach to millions of people than through
something that can take a couple of seconds? As long as action is taken and
important incidents aren’t ignored than that can somehow improve the world because
it creates awareness and or influence others to make a change.
The ultimate question of our society is how to best improve the world for all. In “Why the Revolution Will not be Tweeted”, Gladwell asserts that contrary to popular belief, the world’s issues cannot be solved by the new technology we so highly revere, but rather by taking and old-fashioned approach. He feels that others must feel the reality of grave issues and the only way to accomplish this is by in-person, nonviolent encounters. Martin Luther King Jr., also held firm to the nonviolent civil disobedience stance that we have seen time and time again produce great change since the days of Ghandi. Changing the world to King meant not being a bystander but standing for just laws and against the unjust no matter the cost. Finally, her article entitled, “What to Do with Good White People,” Bennett grapples with the idea of what is good in the world based on intent; admittedly we may never know or understand another person’s intent. By allowing the reader to toggle with this idea of what black and white thoughts may look like, Bennett ultimately suggests that improving the world starts with a self-reflection. IF we can begin with ourselves and change a part of our thinking we may be able to make a difference. Truthfully, all authors offer valid points and proven methods of changing the world. I however, am one lone young person in the world of a great many. I do not presume to have all the answers. My age and experiences wouldn’t allow me to. So I don’t know how to improve the world, or if it is even beyond reproach. But I do know that we can try and that begins with speaking up.
ReplyDeleteTrying to answer the question of how best can we improve our world is beyond one person’s ideas alone. After reading the texts, I find that all the authors offer valid points within their personal opinions. In “I Don’t Know What to Do with Good White People”, Bennett suggests that change should come purely from peoples good intentions rather than expecting to be praised for doing a good deed. She discusses the fact that we never know a persons intentions, therefore, we can’t just assume the worst. In “Why the Revolution Won’t Be Tweeted” and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, Gladwell and Martin Luther Kind Jr. offer a different perspective on the topic. Gladwell believes that the worlds issues cannot be solved through technology, it must be done through human interaction. Martin Luther King Jr., reflects on his personal actions and how they have led him to where he is, jail. He explains how important it is to realize that each and every person’s thoughts and decisions contribute to our world. I can see where each of these authors are coming from, and personally I feel there should be a combination of the two. There is nothing wrong with letting technology help improve our world but we must remember how big of a role human interaction plays on a day-to-day basis. Obviously my opinions are created from a technology driven generation, but I honestly don’t see why we shouldn’t use technology to our advantage. From my perspective, it has already improved our world immensely, therefore I think we should continue on that track.
ReplyDeleteIn all of the articles we read this past week, they all have one single core goal that they are trying to communicate to the reader. All of the authors are trying to come up with a way to help our society how to help their fellow man. But to improve our world it will not happen with just one single person or with on single idea. I think all three points of view are great they are all viable ways to help improve our society as a whole but we cant just pick and choose just one method we need to utilize all three of them and then we need even more ideas. A revolution starts with one idea but gets rolling with many. Gladwell suggests good intentions, Marin Luther suggests we value everyone equally and Bennett suggests change through technology. If we come up with a way to use all of them and more we can make something happen we can bring about the change all of us want to see in our world.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the three articles, for the past week, the ultimate question that everyone asks about and wants an answer for is, how is the best ways we can improve our world? In my opinion, there is many different ways we can improve this disastrous world. However, in the article of “Why the Revolution Will Not be Tweeted” the Gladwell has a different point of view towards technology. He doesn’t believe that an activist should rely on social media the best way to try to fix the world is by going back in the days like civil rights movement. Back in the days, the real activists confronted the problem face to face, but also do that in peace move without violence. On the other hand, we have the “I Don’t Know What to Do with White People” which Brit Bennett is so confuse with the way white people act toward color people. Therefore, the way of how we can improve the world is that people have to be more aware of how they act. She has a hard time believing that white people’s intentions when they do something good, but she believes that they should not be like awarded because they treat a color person well. In the article of “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” Martin Luther King Jr. believes that the way of overcoming segregation is to stand up for the right things and for peoples rights. There was an interesting quote MLK said, “We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers”. People should not just stand there and not do anything about people’s rights. Even if it goes against the laws.
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