BLACK LIVES MATTER

My second week here in San Antonio started with a trip to a very tough area, as I told you in my last blogpost. The last days, I have very much never been off campus, because there was much going on here, too. What I appreciate a lot about this university is, that almost every day there is lectures on things that are really interesting and in fact important for our society. For example this tuesday, there was one on ISIS and Propaganda (which I am going to write an article on, that's gonna be published in the Trinity Newspaper) and one on the Black Lives Matter Movement.
Basically this week, the BLM-lecture was only on criminality and law in the U.S. in general. We analyzed many statistics that showed how Afro-American people are being treated unequally when it comes to the rate of busts for attended crimes. What I loved was that at the beginning we should write the amount of times that we attended certain crimes and we should answer how often we had to do something with the police. At the end they found out that within one room at our University, there was more than 6000 criminal acts done, but only like every 1 in 50 got punished in some way. Of course we also compared this to the rate of punishments within other, less privileged parts of the society.

Next tuesday, we will hear in certain, what the black lives matter movement is, so this lecture was only a preparation for us but I am quite sure, that it's going to be very special for me.
Until then, I would love you to also read a bit about the BLM-Movement, because it has many similarities to the struggle of my origin, the Kurdish.