Jakob's Response

From our discussion in class today, I developed a couple ideas about All American Boys and Race/Police in the media. In All American Boys, I believe the author ended the book before the trial to show that the trial Ian that was important, the unity of the community was important. On the subject of race/police in the media, I think race is not as important as most people think. From my perspective, exciting news is exciting news, and when I am watching the news , I tend to either tune out or miss the race mentioned of the people affected or the one(s) who caused it. But, that is my perspective. Other people could be outraged that the news even mentions race, which I can totally understand. It's very unnecessary. For my final idea, I will talk about police in the media. Once again, from my perspective, I think police are too negatively represented in the media, especially when all the facts aren't given. A lot of the time, especially when a black teen is shot, the media responds very negatively, when it isn't always. One example that comes to my head is the shooting of Sylville Smith. He was shot and killed by an officer after he was discovered with a gun that contained stolen ammunition. Body cam showed that he was raising his guns to the police when they fired, killing him. Following this, there were riots in Milwaukee, destroying the city, over a troubled man who's motive seemed to kill the police, the police just defending themselves.