Shayira Farmer senior project

On April 12 senior Shayira Farmer came to our Journalism class and presented her senior project on abortion. For the presentation she needed a powerpoint and a ten page research paper. Her Thesis was Abortion is murder and demeons the value of life. She said she picked the topic abortion because she wants to let people know that there are different things you can do if you do not want your child. These things were birth control, condoms, and adoption. Some of the facts she said was the U.S. has 1.2 million abortions each year. Shayira stated that in 1973 the U.S. legalized abortion. She worked with the youth empower program and stated that millions of women get abortions every day. She said that 50% of the women that got abortions did not think of any other way to not get an abortion. She also told us that abortion is the most common surgical procedure in the U.S. More Teenagers get abortions than older women in the U.S. Some of the reasons people got abortions is because they could not afford to have a child at a young age or because they have to focus on school and might have to take care of the child slack n their work. Shayira thinks that abortion should not be legal but if she was in a situation to have a child at the age she is at she would get an abortion.

Trayvon Martin

     17-year-Old Tryavon Martin was killed walking home from the store buying a drink and skittles. He was killed because he had on a hoodie, which made him look ‘suspicious’. Organization all over the country and walks was held making a statement about racial profiling. Chuck Williams stated that, “A white boy wearing a hoodie he’s a college student, a black boy wearing a hoodie is a professional thug”. This shows that black males wearing hoodies are being judged automatically as criminals or suspicious. On Friday when I went downtown there were so many people down there. At Love Park they had protesting against hoodies being a sign. There were people wearing hoodies that said on it “Do I look suspicious?” and having skittle wrappers taped on it. I think its unfair that they didn’t arrest the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman. It is a sign of racism because people always think black males in hoodies look suspicious but white males don’t. You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. It was good and nice that they held protest all over the country for Trayvon wearing a hoodie when he was killed saying he looked suspicious but people and children get killed everyday and it isn’t even paid attention to.