Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Crime in the Media Fall 2020

The film that I chose to watch for this media blog is called ’Poor Kids’ This documentary was published on November 22, 2017 by Frontline. This film is dependent on destitution and getting homeless from it. I state this since vagrancy and destitution is something that is being managed everywhere in the world and it is significant that we as a general public comprehend this is an all-inclusive issue. Two families end up removed by their landowners. They should manage a time of vagrancy and changing from house to house to remain with their loved ones. The families introduced in this narrative are single parents with small kids. The kids need to ride a rush of vagrancy, while attempting to confront sudden changes day by day. In the narrative, the moms were confronted with difficulties on how they have kids that are still in school and they are getting destitute. These difficulties that were confronted were on how they planned to get the children to class when they are moved so distant from it and in the event that they are as yet going to have the option to go to class. A perusing note that we examined in class expressed,
As indicated by the U.S. Division of Education, practically 1.4 million younger students experienced vagrancy during the 2016-2017 school year. A portion of these youngsters were among the assessed 4.4 million destitute individuals in 2017 who were incidentally resting on the floors or love seats of family or companions since they couldn’t manage the cost of their own lodging,”(Jezza NeuMann 2017).This is an enormous issue in our present reality where there should be a change. School is a significant factor in each kid’s life where they have to begin at an early stage and proceed. How are they expected to go to class when they’re destitute? They essentially cannot possibly get the right training . A central issue introduced in this film is the court and law when managing vagrancy and neediness. The same number of angles in class we examined how race in courts is an issue that our reality manages. In this narrative, it was examined how the court accused the mother of being purposefully destitute, this is a major issue in the criminal system. No one has goals to be destitute. As I would see it, the appointed authority expressed that the trouble ought to have been taking a shot at approaches to get her and her children to be protected and find them a home.
A central issue addressed at various occasions in this narrative was neediness. Neediness on the planet is an emergency that has been continuous for quite a long time. Living in destitution is something one will never comprehend except if they experience it themselves. Subsequent to perusing and finding out about destitution is vagrancy, it gave me additional homelessness, all things considered. Not a Crime to be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America said that “We need to turn the coin over and give pre-birth care to all, youngster advancement for all kids, top notch instruction for every single, fair job and powerful work underpins, reasonable lodging, wellbeing attorneys varying, safe neighborhoods, no brutality in the city or at home, solid networks”. (Edelman, 2017, p. 183) In the wake of seeing the everyday battles of what these families needed to experience for quite a long time, it caused me to acknowledge how significantly these battles can influence individuals and what they can do to somebody’s life.
This narrative gave me a superior comprehension to the genuine battles in everyday life of vagrancy and neediness and how it can influence a person. It additionally gave me a superior visual comprehension to what we have been learning in our readings and conversations in class. In this narrative, it helped me relate a great deal of the insights and realities that we have learned in our readings and shown what really goes on when somebody is destitute and battling intellectually and genuinely. I would suggest this narrative not just on account of how enlightening it is, yet the amount somebody can gain from watching it. It makes you want to help these individuals battling and make us as a general public have any kind of effect on the planet so individuals don’t need to experience this any longer. Fortunately, the families in this narrative had the option to discover harmony and a home in the long run. However it was as yet an encounter that they should manage in their regular daily existences intellectually. It causes you to acknowledge how genuinely honored you are throughout everyday life.

Raunya Mitchell

References

Edelman, P. (2017). Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America. The