This post isn’t actually about bodies but it relates to our class discussions about the Ferguson case and the protests in general. As I read the post from the link below, I just got more and more frustrated that people actually found offense to the protests on campus over the last two weeks. People said that it was really just shouting, disruptive and was pointless. In doing the protests I didn’t think that anyone could take offense to it but that’s obviously because I felt more invested in it so I never thought of it that way but If anyone had any interest or opinion on the protests, can you please comment about them?
This is the thread that I found on the myUMBC homepage that makes me wonder, Was anyone in class offended by the protests?
Unruly Bodies 
In my other GWST class, we are also taking about the protest that happened at UMBC concerning Ferguson and how other people are feeling about it. A lot of people said that it disturbs their daily life, but I think the whole point of a protest is to get people’s attention on the important issues and events that are happening in society and to tell people to think about these issues.
I was not offended by the protests. At the time, I felt a bit uncomfortable because I didn’t know how I fit in the movement as a white person, but I was not offended. It just so happens that there was a Christmas parade in my hometown on Sunday, and there were some Ferguson protesters there blocking the parade. I could not attend because I live so far away, but I sure enough heard about it on Facebook. I saw some of the most racist remarks about the Ferguson case online about the parade. Some of them were filled with victim-blaming of Michael Brown and others. People don’t want their lives upset by seeing these protests. I guess I am speaking about white people in particular, but they already have privilege, so what more do they need, right? Racism doesn’t exist or anything… I was angered by this because some of the things I saw were saying things like “this is a family parade” and “we don’t need that stuff here”. I was appalled because I felt like this could be a teaching moment for kids. It could have been a teaching moment in explaining racial inequality and that we should work together to make sure all people are treated fairly. If I were a parent, that’s what I’d do.