Young teenage people of color are asked to speak on issues most prevalent to them and their lives. “What group of people do we hardly ever listen too but hear about all the time?” Getting a group of teenagers together in each vehicle to discuss prevalent issues that affect their lives and their communities such as sex, violence, families, their education, and how they view their future. 200 Oakland inner-city teenage participants of the performance engaged in topics of relevance that are provocative while sitting in cars upon rooftop parking lots. Audience members listened to these topics that were provocative to the students; observing the current relevance issues had in their community. Teenagers discussed minorities and stereotypes associated with gender and race that are applicable to their lives, majoritivly not by choice. Equipped with cars to sit in, a parking lot roof performance space, media attention, and donations; the performance aroused creative thinking and brought current racial and stereotypically assigned viewpoints to the forefront of discussion.
“With five percent of the world's population, the US incarcerates 25 percent of the world's prisoners” (Daisy Hudson, Noisey Magazine. 2014). That same year “African Americans constituted 2.3 million, or 34%, of the total 6.8 million correctional population, though African Americans and Hispanics make up approximately 32% of the US population, they comprised 56% of all incarcerated people in 2015 (NAACP). The prison system in America serves not as a correctional facility, but a container for which black bodies are buried alive. The conditions of which inmates are kept, the disparity in numbers and portrayal of those incarcerated. There is no question that factors such as education, employment, mental and physical health; the lack of access to such resources targets and propels African Americans through the pipeline to prison. In our history, it seems that prison, or largely the criminalization of African Americans, Black men in particularly, has been used as a tactic of oppr...
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