Banjo Kim - What’s on your mind? / Toolkit Research - Week 3 Assignment

Banjo Kim - What’s on your mind? - Week 3 Assignment

• Racism
• Coronavirus is going around and I’ve been seeing a lot of racism going around. People are going around and using coronavirus as an excuse to be racist. I am concerned because uneducated people are causing unnecessary harm.
• Climate change
• I am passionate about this topic because the world we live in is rapidly deteriorating.  I feel as if there is a lot of talk about climate change but no one is doing anything.
• Gentrification
• I believe that artist and gentrification go hand in hand. Gentrification is an issue that is happening all over the world, but I would like to focus in the LA area.

Banjo Kim - Toolkit Research - Week 3 Assignment

The article that I read was Pillars of support from the Beautiful Trouble Toolbox. A strategy that resonated with me was that the power rests in the hand of the people. The article talks about these ‘pillars of support’. Some examples for these pillars are the military, police, media, etc. These pillars claim a lot of power in today's society. But when people choose to no longer “accept the status quo and resist”, there is a shift in power. The people do not have to be unarmed to create change. The only thing people need to do is participate and work together. An information that was entirely new to me was the five year national boycott of grapes led by Cesar Chavez. I did not know that farm workers were exploited. An idea that is worth digging further into is the idea that most people are ignorant of the power they wield. This idea interested me because I believe that this does not apply to everyone. I would want a better understanding of the percentage of people who believe that they don’t have the power to create change.