Dr. Finwick was one of my favorite speakers so far. She started out her lecture with an interesting pop-quiz. The quiz basically asked questions about drug use and education. We answered the questions based on what we all have seen and heard- Blacks use drugs and black guys especially do bad on SAT’s. What we all realized after the quiz was how much we have been mis-educated by popular unchallenged statements.
The main point of her lecture was “know the true facts and find the statistics that empower your community”. There are three steps to knowing the facts to empower our community. First, we must challenge common statements about our race. Second, we find the positive facts that disprove these myths. Third, we find the data and statistics that outline strategies and pathways to success.
Dr. Finwick stated, “Media representation of the Black community is a litany of negativity and false pathology”. Part of our charge as young scholars is to gather data about ourselves so that we are not mis-represented by non-factual myths. In order to break the media stereotypes that’s have defined our community, we have to combat the spoken false statistics with the truth, which is not as bad as we have been taught.
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