Lecture 3-Global Discourse

This lecture 3 was based on Global Discourse which included talking about Race, Culture and Displacement. With this more people are displaced now than ever before and this is why it’s important to talk about these different aspects of Global Discourse. In which according to the UN as of the end of 2019 there were 79.5m people living as refugees forcibly displaced from their homes. Aswell as this racism is still shown massively around the world one example of this was said to be the Grenfell Tower fire which most of the people that died were of a different culture/race, which shows racism coming into action.

The race Relations Act was the first formal legislation in the United Kingdom to address racial discrimination in 1965. There is also a term called ‘White privilege which is for institutional advantage or set of benefits granted to those who are white. This year a man called George Floyd was killed by a police officer in Minnesota who was kneeling on George Floyd’s neck while he had him pinned to the floor, this was a prime example that racism still exists in countries such as America which caused protests all over the world and the campaign of ‘Black Lives Matter’. Say their names created by Kadir Nelson (2020 in The New Yorker) was an artistic cover in which the artist had shown that the murder of George Floyd ‘embodies the history of violence inflicted upon black people in America’. I think this artistic cover was a great example of spreading awareness to everyone and to show that ‘Black Lives Matter’ and should be shown across to everyone.

This presentation was important but heartbreaking to learn that racism is still a massive problem thats going on across the world and it is important to be involved in campaigns to stop racism and show that ‘Black lives Matter’ but not only this we need to think about different cultures and displacement.