User:Austindprouty/sandbox

The Silent Minority
This section focuses mainly of the idea that the minorities do not have a say in much. Mostly because they are stripped of their right to vote if they cross any legal line, because they are usually charged with a felony. Even though there is a way that the government created to re-register to vote after you are deemed a felon by the state, they claim that the process is to long and difficult to be even close to practical. Alexander says this is the current way they use to keep minorities from voting, by charging them will felonies or sending them to prison to take them out of the voting pool, hopefully permanently.

The Pariahs
This section mainly focuses largely on the judgement ex-cons/felons face in everyday life, and the work place.How most employers wont even consider twice if you are a black male, but that they will have even harder times if the have a felony on their record. Sources she provides say that they were accepted to many jobs accepted them, but then called them once they found out they were felons and told them they weren't hired.

Eerie Silence
This section focuses how no felons ever want to give up the information that they are one in fear of discrimination. It also shows how families of convicted felons are afraid to tell people they know personally, and in the workplace, that they know/are related to a felon in fear of discrimination.

Passing (Redux)
This section mainly focuses on the fact of how people lie about about incarcerated family members to help them cope. People tend to lie about one of there family members being incarcerated because it might cause them to be the victims of discrimination, especially in the work place.--Austindprouty (talk) 21:10, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Social Media and Media bias
There have been forms of bias showed in current media coverage of victims of cop shootings. The media has been accused in this situation for depicting the person who was shot down in a dark way. Using photos of them from darker parts of their life to make them seem like more of a bad person. A prime example might be the current Ferguson situation with the young boy Michael Brown being shot and killed by a Police officer; many new outlets used a semi-blurry dark looking photo of him when they covered him in the media. Other better behaving depicting photos surfaces on social media but hardly any of them were brought large stream media’s attentions. (Comparison of pictures will be put on the side) This began a large social media trend, where people would include the hash tag #IfTheyGunnedMeDown. In the social media post they would post a good looking, achievement showing photo, then they would compare next to it a photo that showed them in a non-flattering light that the claim the media would use to depict them in a criminal sense. The trend became quite popular and received attention from new sources such as The The Times and Buzzfeed. Many people began to chime in and show what they thought would be used to show them in a dark personality. The reason they found this so important is they figured the media would use the dark pictures to cast fear into the viewer and hopefully fuel them with the idea that the person really was a criminal.