Unchain The Voice #2

In my first blog post, I talked about how you unchain your voice and the difference between snitching and speaking out . I addressed how the term snitching comes along and how it makes people feel. Through the research I made in the first blog post, I went though the steps  to snitching, to speaking out, to understand how to actually doing it.

Since my first blog post, I have come over very interesting research. I was planning to do a survey.  I made the survey about 10 questions sent it out to about 30 people. I got one response. After the response, my survey stopped letting people submit. I did not know why. I thought maybe it was just a tech problem and tried to fix it but it did not work, so I had to take another approach. I did small interviews, I spoke to multiple people in red stream about snitching. Everyone mostly had the same opinion. Everyone thought that snitching and speaking out had been mixed up in their minds. Snitching to them is not okay but speaking out was okay. This was interesting to me that they actually often got the two mixed while speaking and asked me multiple times to stop the recorder just so they could actually think about the question they were answering. I think one out of the 6 or 7 people I interviewed actually had a lot of knowledge on the difference. This shows the lack of awareness these kids have on the issue and that no one has brought it up as an issue. Some kids did not want to learn more about it, ome kids wanted to hear more. The kids that did not want to learn more about the topic were the people who knew less about it which I found very interesting.


A rapper was interviewed on YouTube about 2 years ago, and he talked about his experience in prison and snitching. He said that ¨The problem is now that to many people snitch, if people kept their mouths closed than it would be no problem,¨ is this how we are supposed to think. Snitching is to benefit others. It gives them justice that not suppose to be deserved. Gossiping, snitching, speaking out are all different, but why do people around us get to decide which one is which. People do not think that snitching is cool. Snitching is equivalent to calling some one a rat, snake, etc. It is not some thing you want to be called but is it our right to desire this for some one else. In my research, I also found out that criminals and teens are the main targeted ones to the term snitching, Prisons are actually where the term originated from. Quoted from a psychiatrist, and case manager Robert Watson. So how did teens get the term? Just like generations people pass it on. Adults pass their knowledge on to us and if their education is correct, then so is ours. I found this out when interviewing these teens in red stream. Some of their information was incorrect but maybe it was from personal experience or maybe it was just from  their peers lack of education on the issue.

http://www.atlanticrecords.com/artists/meek-mill( would not let me hyperlink )

figure 1 : OT Genasis is a rapper from the recent music video produced called ¨coco" who also claims snitching is the main problem in the streets. 

Fore more information go to annotated bibliography.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RSp0soOeHaOvbzgvcQzmUPxivlfsdZqHWdGWOnRm9C8/edit

Comments (4)

Mekhi Friend (Student 2018)
Mekhi Friend

This post made me think about a show called beyond scared straight, where they take kids to a prison and scare them. There was a prisoner who took a kid's glasses and in order to get them back he had to speak out but he was labled snitched