Thursday, October 1, 2015

The Photo of Death

It all began with a photo. A photo that very quickly went viral. This is the tale of Sandra Bland an African American women who unfortunately, had her mugshot taken after death had already swallowed her last breath. However, before I introduce you to her death, I will paint a portrait of the wonderful life that she lived first.

Sandra Bland was originally from Naperville, Illinois until she went on to school in Texas at Prairie View A&M University. Ms. Bland often contributed to the community through helping senior citizens as well as being a counselor to the youth. For more information on her background you can look at Wikapedia.

"However, starting in 2015 Sandra Bland began to use social media as a means of protest against the injustice that was happening in today's America. Her main topic was "Black Lives Matter." She had no issues speaking out on the police brutality  nor did she have an issue disclosing the information on topics that would not have been spread without the help of social media. and she made sure that her views on such matters were clear as day. She did not approve of the deeds happening in America and she wanted them to stop (Sanchez.)"
It is unfortunate to admit that the death of miss Sandra Bland is looked at more as a conspiracy than as an actual murder or suicide which is a hard concept to come to terms with. According to CNN  "On July 13 Ms. Bland was "found" hanging in her cell at the Wallar county jail in Texas."

The hanging is the place where the conspiracy sets into place and these are the things that I have gathered simply from the hasgtags #SandraBland, #JusticeforSandra, and #SandraBlandChallenge. All three hashtags are found on varying forms of social media, from instagram to twitter and everything in between has disclosed the image of Sandra Bland's mugshot. I apologize in advance for not being able to show you the photo of her because the are almost all privately pwned and I encourage you to just look up the name and see he face. Both the before and the after.

Her mugshot completely pulls her face in and she looks sunken in. Her beautiful face has the sad marks of a beat down. Red and purple bruising, and her shoulders (which is how the Sandra Bland Challenge erupted) are for too low in position for anyone that is standing up. At least to those who believe that miss Bland was assassinated.

The Sandra Bland Challenge was initiated to help prove the way that gravity pulls on a person when they are standing tall versus laying down. Which is why many people made comparison photos of them standing as well as laying down as a sense of evidence against the Wallar county police department to basically say "Hey, we aren't buying your shenanigans, and we know what you did!" It is said that there is no good deed that goes unanswered, as is the case for Miss Sandra Bland. It is true that she may have lost her life for her cause, it is also fair to point out that her work was continued even after her death. It is continued by people like me, and you that make an effort to help inform the world of what's going on and not just stand there and allow it to happen. It is the people that help spread the facts and leave out the fabrications that help make her death worth while, even if it were suicide.

3 comments:

  1. I think your three adjectives were shown in this very well. I feel the seriousness and the informality in your word choice. This was very well written. Also if you ever decided to alter this mugshots are open for public information if you find it from the government website.

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  2. I got chills reading this post! You wrote it well, with a serious tone to match Sandra's story, and I felt you sufficiently overcame copyright boundaries by telling us where we could find her picture. I googled her and reread your paragraph about the differences between someone laying down and standing up. Its so obvious when its pointed out! Nice work

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  3. I really like your strong and passionate tone in this post. I enjoyed how you knew what you were talking about and backed up your points with evidence. Great Post!

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