LET BLACK GIRLS HAVE A CHILDHOOD, INNOCENCE SHOULDN'T BE A PRIVILEGE
Welcome to my final Action Project for my civic class, Global Peace. In this class we learned how to approach situations with non-violence using Ghandi's policies. Although I believe differently from a lot of what the class taught, I still learned a lot to use in my activism. Ghandi is not someone I agree with, he used a lot of anti-black rhetoric in his Indian daily newspaper and he didn't like Africans, he was also a pedophile. I believe violence is sometimes a nesseccary evil, another reason why I don't like his teachings. For this project we had to come up with a form of activism to impact where we live. I partnered with my sister, NG , to do this project. We decided to focus on the topic of the Adultification and Hyper-sexualization of black girls. This not only happens in the city of Chicago, but everywhere, you can step into any space with black girls and see it happening. Adultification and hyper-sexualization is a form of violence that is committed against black gi
