Class is Crass!

Our class, Equality, has synthesized what class, gender, and race relations are now and how we got to our place. However, the second half of the course, Hxstory, explored what the concept of Equality could look like in 100 years. That is a very loaded question; I can't speak on everyone else's idea of time but a hundred years a long time to me. If you put it into the context of time, though, time suddenly is a lot shorter. For example, in 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, and then in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech. Do with that what you will.

There were a ton of readings and activities done during the unit, one of my favorites was playing the board game Monopoly and having it set up in a way where we were a stratified society. But I may have a bias because I was assigned the upper class. The game really emphasized the inequities among the classes and that those who always start ahead will be ahead. The upper class could buy any property they wanted, while opportunities for others became less and less as we went down the hierarchy.

In my project, I zeroed in on class relations in the US and what I imagine it could look like in 100 years. Spoiler alert: I don't think much will change. The capitalist structure we live under has been built up for decades, and it won't be dismantled overnight. Yes, we see the worker shortage currently going on, but that pales compared to our economy's lasting effects on the environment.

This project was quite frankly a lot for me since I feel I have a hard time trying to visualize things or tell stories, but I really enjoyed the process of video editing and making. Editing was hard, but I made it work! It fits perfectly for me, too, since I have wanted to do video work, and I hope to study Digital Media Production in the fall!

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"A record 4.4 million Americans quit their jobs in September" YouTube, Uploaded by CNN, 12 November 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmaRp2skKp4&t=92s.

"Kellogg to replace more than 1K workers as strikes continue l GMA" YouTube, Uploaded by Good Morning America, 8 December 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlvsO4EzlGU.

Moore, Michael, director. Roger & Me. Dog Eat Dog Films, 1989. 

"Former Amazon warehouse employees discuss working conditions"YouTube, Uploaded by Yahoo Finance, 21 June 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4WDtXBf2eo&t=178s.