14 min
School-to-Prison Pipeline Edition: The History & Unlearning Of Gender Stigmas & Biases Finish The Sentence
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- Society & Culture
When you see a group of Black/Latinx teenagers hanging out what goes through your mind? Do you automatically see them as a gang, as violent? Do you automatically see them as adults and not teens, children?
When you see a little Black girl wearing red nail polish or wearing hoops to play dress up, do you see her as acting "too grown"? What about when she is playing outside with some friends, one of them being a boy, do you call her "fast"?
If you answered yes to any of the above then take this into consideration:
In 2012, 15-year old, Alexis Sumpter, was swiping her student MetroCard at the Subway when two cops demanded to see her ID and soon this girl's face was pressed against the wall by one officer and while the other two handcuffed her.
Alexis' dad vouched for her age but the cops still believed she was an adult and so her mom was called. They didn't believe the mom either.
Alexis' mom got the birth certificate proving Alexis was 15 and that was when she was uncuffed and released.
Your way of thinking results in little Black girls being are 3x more likely to receive harsher punishments than that of white girls and pushed into the school-to-prison pipeline.
Listen to why you think this way when you see a girl of color, specifically a little Black girl in Finish The Sentence.
*This is Part 3 of the 3-Part School-to-Prison Pipeline Edition.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rpfinishthesentence/message
When you see a group of Black/Latinx teenagers hanging out what goes through your mind? Do you automatically see them as a gang, as violent? Do you automatically see them as adults and not teens, children?
When you see a little Black girl wearing red nail polish or wearing hoops to play dress up, do you see her as acting "too grown"? What about when she is playing outside with some friends, one of them being a boy, do you call her "fast"?
If you answered yes to any of the above then take this into consideration:
In 2012, 15-year old, Alexis Sumpter, was swiping her student MetroCard at the Subway when two cops demanded to see her ID and soon this girl's face was pressed against the wall by one officer and while the other two handcuffed her.
Alexis' dad vouched for her age but the cops still believed she was an adult and so her mom was called. They didn't believe the mom either.
Alexis' mom got the birth certificate proving Alexis was 15 and that was when she was uncuffed and released.
Your way of thinking results in little Black girls being are 3x more likely to receive harsher punishments than that of white girls and pushed into the school-to-prison pipeline.
Listen to why you think this way when you see a girl of color, specifically a little Black girl in Finish The Sentence.
*This is Part 3 of the 3-Part School-to-Prison Pipeline Edition.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rpfinishthesentence/message
14 min