Social Justice through the eyes of the world at large, Day Two, Letter to Disney and When Marian Sang

Dear Disney,

I want to write a letter about the many stereotypes you have put in Peter Pan and view of the Native American. The portrayal of the Native American is always laughable and happy all the time. Making the white children all right laughing and mimicking their "broken English" and the use of squaw when it came the reference to the woman and the making light of the culture."Happy Savages" in the movie you want to project in the movie to the rest of the country and perhaps the world. Many native cultures were civilized and part of a community as whole but has no need to simplify they speak, culture and the way say "How" is very offensive and wrong way to portrayal the Native American.

Respectfully,

Robert Rice

Also, in class we discuss how Marian Anderson, the first African American opera singer through Stacey's reading to the class. After the reading she assign us a one sheet with maker/crayon/colored pencil to use one line, Marion's voice... I choose to write Marian's voice is so loud it breakdown social injustice.

The use of this exercise is to create a discussion and break up the same type of activity to keep the students aware of different subjects are being brought up in the classroom.

Overall the group did a very good of making the class very interactive if the students and making it fun for the students to enjoy themselves. I enjoyed to make a different way of presenting information that can burn out majority of students who have heard these things before but to make more personable and more accessible. This is more realistic hands to students who might fight on this subject.