Do I Have The Full Picture?

 Do I Have the Full Picture?

    According to the actions of repeated history, NO I don’t think anyone has or will ever receive the full picture. After reading Autumn's article and watching the video “Dysconscious racism in Sports”, the opposing side never has the full picture. The young male student didn’t really get why Autumn spazzed out with frustration and the fans of these well-known teams didn’t really understand why “Redskins” was hurtful and degrading to the Native American culture. People on the opposing side are not taking the time to better their knowledge on why certain issues create frustration or even anger from those a part of those slurs/names or statements. 

    As a young African American female in today’s society the N-word in most cases has been transformed into a causal work for homie, even though this word holds an extreme amount of hurtful, racial, and degrading memories others still feel the need to say it, and disregard its region. I’ve seen Autumn's full picture, but outsiders don’t, and I strongly believe they never will. 

    But I strongly believe the real question here is “How can we get people to see and stand for the full picture?”. Because many people believe they have the whole picture but once they look at it from a different lens, they soon realize they don’t even have half of it. Our job as future educators is to provide those different lenses and encourage outside explorations, so students can understand more for themselves and not only just for us.