Choose a topic of your own. You can choose any sports figure (Colin Kaepernick) Main Thing: Compare how there are articles bashing him for kneeling, and compare articles on how it was a good thing for him kneeling? How do these articles tell the story? What aspect of the incident is emphasized? What things are left out? Do you see any of the people involved in the incident treated unfairly by the popular media? Do you see any component of the article in some way related to issues of race, gender, social class, or sexuality? Do you see intersections of these “power lines” in these articles—for example, black masculinity (race and gender) and middle class white femininity (race, class, gender)? Do you see any ideology being reinforced, celebrated, or challenged in these articles, for example, the American dream ideology, the dominant gender ideology, the myth of black athleticism, or other cultural messages we discussed in class?
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