Chanda Prescod- Weinstein Essay
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Running head: PRESCOD- WEINSTEIN ESSAYPRESCOD- WEINSTEIN ESSAYName of the studentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
1PRESCOD- WEINSTEIN ESSAYQuestion 1The given essay by Chanda Prescod- Weinstein states that the path to becoming anacademic is a difficult one. Football is just like academia and people who are in importantpositions deserve and expect to receive respect and cultural compliance. Colin Kaepernickbroke cultural rules when he decided to sit down during the national anthem in August 2016,for which the National Football League of America (NFL) punished him and his career wasdestroyed. However, Kaepernick was successful in putting forward his point that more peopleshould pay attention to the police brutality and anti-black trend faced by the black people inAmerica. Many players joined him in the trend of taking a knee and even people whopreviously supported Donald Trump (Roger Goodell and Robert Kraft), openly expressedtheir dissatisfaction and disappointment in Trump. The act of taking a knee soon became aform of protest against trump and even scientists took this opportunity to let their opinion onTrump be known. The scientists may not experience the same level of impact on the field ofscience as was in the case of Kaepernick for football. Nonetheless, it would still be enough toraise awareness for the participation and training of black scientists in science. The authorstates that fighting against injustices like racism and anti-native colonialism are important toencourage black scientists to participate more in research work, as science affects humanityas a whole and every individual’s contribution is necessary.Question 2The author states that football like academia is ‘a culture of hierarchy’. According tothis statement, the author is trying to explain that in the fields of science and football, thepower is distributed in a pyramid structure, where people who are at a superior (orhigher/powerful) position would demand respect and cultural compliance.
2PRESCOD- WEINSTEIN ESSAYQuestion 3According to the author Prescod-Weinstein, Colin Kaepernick broke a significantcultural rule by taking a knee during the national anthem. By doing so, he went against whatthe rest of the team was doing and disobeyed what the league told him to do, leading to theviolation of ‘a significant cultural rule’.Question 4 As Colin Kaepernick challenged people in ‘positions of superiority’ and defied‘cultural conformity’, the National Football League (NFL) destroyed his career as a form ofpunishment (Prescod-Weinstein). Question 5Colin Kaepernick was for his position as an internationally televised quarterback ofthe NFL. He wanted to use his position in a way that makes it possible to gain the attention ofthe white American viewers to get to know of the reality and problems faced by him forbeing a black American man. Instead of celebrating America, Kaepernick decided to take aknee during the national anthem, demanding more attention from the viewers to tackleproblems relating to the police brutality and anti-black sentiments faced by black Americans.Thus, Kaepernick uses the act of taking a knee as a form of cultural resistance by this way.Question 6According to the statement ‘Once it became apparent that taking a knee could be justanother protest against Trump, suddenly lots of folks were doing it’, the author says thatwhen people got to know that ‘taking a knee’ was a form of protest against Donald Trump, alot of people started doing it. It is due to this reason, the scientists too wanted to make their
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