{"id":12375,"date":"2017-06-23T14:36:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T18:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/dcbrp\/?p=12375"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:05:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:05:36","slug":"week-four-rest-in-peace-philando-castile-and-nabra-hassenen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/2017\/06\/23\/week-four-rest-in-peace-philando-castile-and-nabra-hassenen\/","title":{"rendered":"Week Four: Rest in Peace, Philando Castile and Nabra Hassenen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today, while browsing a website for inspiration about a project I\u2019m working on, I stumbled upon this article. I read it, and felt such disgust, such pain.<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s theme is culture, and having just read Dominique\u2019s article, I\u2019m thinking about culture outside of the confines of race, gender, nationality, religion, ethnicity. All of those components factor into what we define as \u201cculture,\u201d but for once, I wish people would look to the universal human culture, before they looked into things that they think they cannot identify with.<\/p>\n

Philando Castile was a human being. Human beings think, feel, love, cry, experience unimaginable joy, and unimaginable sorrow. Philando probably had nicknames. Probably made jokes that made his fianc\u00e9 roll her eyes, but smile with her heart in her throat when he wasn\u2019t watching her. He had a mother who loved him, a mother who watched chubby legs turn into gangly limbs, turn into thirty-two years of man. He had a daughter. A daughter who he\u2019ll never get to watch become a rebel, a fighter, a woman<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Alyson took me to a vigil for Nabra Hassenen. Nabra was a 17 year old girl. She wore a bright smile, and glasses, and a nose ring, and a killer sense of style, and\u2026a hijab.<\/p>\n

Now, Nabra wears the white cloth that Muslims are buried in.<\/p>\n

Nabra probably had a list of books she wanted to read, and artists that she wanted to see in concert, and things she wanted to do this summer. Nabra had<\/em> all of these things. Nabra fought for immigrants affected by the immigration ban, and probably went home later that night to do her homework.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t stop thinking about the fact that her parents are going to spend this Eid, and every Eid after it crying for their daughter. I can\u2019t stop thinking about her mother, who is going to spend the rest of her life seeing the ghost of her daughter everywhere she goes. Of her father, who had the joy of a fearless older daughter ripped away from him. Of her siblings, who might have bickered with her earlier that day, and are now regretting that. Of her siblings, who needed her help, or her advice, or who just needed a smile, or an inside joke.<\/p>\n

Philando and Nabra were human beings from completely different walks of life. They had nothing and everything in common. They had friendships, and communities, and people who loved them, people who will never get to love them.<\/p>\n

They were two human beings whose deaths have become politics. They were people who wanted to be alive more than they wanted to be movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/killed-castile-pot-smell-made-fear-life-article-1.3265188?utm_content=bufferfa05d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw Today, while browsing a website for inspiration about a project I\u2019m working on, I stumbled upon this article. I read it, and felt such disgust, such pain. This week\u2019s theme is culture, and having just read Dominique\u2019s article, I\u2019m thinking about culture outside of the confines of race, gender, nationality, religion, ethnicity. All of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15737,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375\/revisions\/15737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}