It's Been A Hard Week (Announcement)
This past week has been hard. It's been really super freaking hard. Not just for me, but for anybody with a heart. Unless, of course, you don't watch or read the news. 24 people have been killed this July in the States by police alone. 146 people are dead in South Sudan, killed on the eve of the fifth anniversary of their independence. There are so many more, but if I spoke of everybody that was killed this month, or even week, I'd be sitting at this desk for a long time.
Here are the names of the people who have died in the States this July as a result of a police gunshot:
July 7, 2016:
Vinson Ramos, California
Unknown, Alabama
Unknown, California
Micah Johnson, Texas
July 6, 2016:
Unknown, California
Unknown, Oklahoma
Philando Castille, Minnesota
July 5, 2016:
Sam Newby, California
Melissa Ventura, Arizona
Joshua Bolster, Oregon
Alton Sterling, Louisiana
July 4, 2016:
William Patterson, South Carolina
Unknown, Texas
Sidney Washington Jr., District of Columbia
Delrawn Small, New York
Anthony Nunez, California
July 3, 2016:
I think the most terrifying thing about this is that I've grown used to it. I'm a teenage girl, living in Japan, and I've gotten used to hearing about killings and shootings and war. Is this the world that we want our children to live in? Is this the world our parents wanted us to live in?
Granted, this world that we live in is a blessing. If you can read this, you are blessed. You probably have a roof over your head and food and other basic necessities. We're closer to having the cure to so many incurable diseases than we ever have been before, the global death rate is down, and less people go to bed hungry every night.
That being said, I shouldn't be able to turn on the TV, or go on CNN, and the first thing I see be somebody else dead.
I think this may be the push I needed to get myself going.
I'm changing this blog. It will now be called: My Life As An Ethnographer
Don't worry, the same stuff that you love will still be here. I'll look at restaurants, and I'll rant. The only thing different is that I'm going to focus on people.
I'll be making changes on the blog, and I'll tell ya'll when it goes live.
Cheers, DFTBA, and Good Night.
Anna Grace
Here are the names of the people who have died in the States this July as a result of a police gunshot:
July 7, 2016:
Vinson Ramos, California
Unknown, Alabama
Unknown, California
Micah Johnson, Texas
July 6, 2016:
Unknown, California
Unknown, Oklahoma
Philando Castille, Minnesota
July 5, 2016:
Sam Newby, California
Melissa Ventura, Arizona
Joshua Bolster, Oregon
Alton Sterling, Louisiana
July 4, 2016:
William Patterson, South Carolina
Unknown, Texas
Sidney Washington Jr., District of Columbia
Delrawn Small, New York
Anthony Nunez, California
July 3, 2016:
Shannon Labit, Louisiana
Raul Saavedra-Vargas, Nevada
Pedro Villanueva, California
July 2, 2016:
Jonathan Justice, Tennessee
Jai Williams, North Carolina
July 1, 2016:
Steven McQueen, Georgia
Helmut Wihowski, Wisconsin
Alexis Mishtowt, South Carolina
Granted, this world that we live in is a blessing. If you can read this, you are blessed. You probably have a roof over your head and food and other basic necessities. We're closer to having the cure to so many incurable diseases than we ever have been before, the global death rate is down, and less people go to bed hungry every night.
That being said, I shouldn't be able to turn on the TV, or go on CNN, and the first thing I see be somebody else dead.
I think this may be the push I needed to get myself going.
I'm changing this blog. It will now be called: My Life As An Ethnographer
Don't worry, the same stuff that you love will still be here. I'll look at restaurants, and I'll rant. The only thing different is that I'm going to focus on people.
I'll be making changes on the blog, and I'll tell ya'll when it goes live.
Cheers, DFTBA, and Good Night.
Anna Grace
