ENGL 2025 Lecture 2: Claudia R
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Claudia rankine is known for creating situational videos to accompany her poetry. The use of a visual conveys her message even louder, pairing two separate things that are still one intertwining idea. In the video stop and frisk, the background poem is a man being arrested after not doing anything wrong at all. In her video, a group of black men are in a store together, trying clothing on. When i first watched the video, i instantly thought of trayvon martin. The men in the poem states how there is only ever one profile that fits the case, this made me think how any one of the men featured shopping in the store could be wrongly accused. That anyone walking out of a store, at the wrong time and the wrong place can face a tragedy. The answer is no, and it"s an ugly truth, but it is something that the public needs to be aware of.