Collected Item: “Ode to the United States”
Give your story a title.
Ode to the United States
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
text
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
My story is about the deaths of Black and Indigenous people at the hands of COVID-19 and how it's a reflection of how the United States views our existence. This is important to me because when we talk about COVID-19 in the future historians need to talk about state sanction violence against us and how it relates to COVID-19. When they talk about the number of people who died, they need to included statistics on the amount of Black and Indigenous people who lost their lives to this disease and other violence during the pandemic.
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#anger, #resilient, #necessary
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Nia Hester
Give this story a date.
2020-08-02