From One Survivor to Another

I think it’s because people like easy, catchy protests.

dionthesocialist:

If Trayvon had been buying cigarettes, I feel like less people would’ve cared he got killed. The fact he was buying two recognizable brands (Skittles and Arizona Tea) contributed greatly to the fact that his case received media attention.

i thought something similar during the big Trayvon media blitz. Remember that Iraqi woman, Shaima Alawadi, who was murdered around the same time? I had to look up her name because I couldn’t remember. I bet most people have never even heard about her, and even fewer people know her name. Her having a “foreign” name that people could not easily remember or pronounce automatically reduced the amount of attention her case would get. She did not have any easily recognizable brands in her case, either.

From my own experience— for a few years in high school I switched over to a nickname that was less complicated than “Chungyen” (which is incredibly easy to pronounce, it’s just how it looks). I noticed within days that people remembered me more.

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    Definately. Thats why they were trying so desperately to criminalize him.

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    i thought something similar during the big Trayvon media blitz. Remember that Iraqi woman, Shaima Alawadi, who was...

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