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  “They Blamed Her For Being Black” Aryan Mukherjee 18 months ago, an act of systemic racism during a GymStart gymnastics tournament for children in Ireland presented itself for all of those in attendance to see. Only just recently, the world finally found out what actually transpired that day. Upon completion of the tournament, a young black girl who chose to keep her identity anonymous was overcome with dejection upon finding out that she was the sole individual in a field full of white children to be denied a medal of participation. According to her parents, the denial was of pure racist intent, and the perpetrators “tried to cover up like it didn’t happen”. Later on, the event was put off as an “honest mistake”, one that allegedly had no racist motivations behind them and was simply an unfortunate fault of “human error”. Some people, especially those like the Irish Capital representatives and the members who hosted the event themselves believed this story, while others like...

The Need For Media Literacy            I was born into a world where technology was a future that everyone around me so vivaciously beckoned, while I felt like the stone on the ground that all of the sand would brush past with no effect. To me and millions all around me, the appeal of burning through the minutes of a digital clock when we could be playing around with the gears of an analog one seemed foolish, perfecting one’s craft on a set of 26 keys instead of the harmonious tunes of 88 physical ones seemed erratic, and spending any time at all learning how to maneuver the infinite number of digital facets seemed next to nothing when shadowed by the brilliant intricacies of the real world. Now, I can do all but wish that I had learned how, because there is no one left to teach me. And my friends, family, and so many others who I love and look up to who stuck by me to plant our feet in the soil of the real world are dying because of it. No longer ...