Joey Mendez Soc 122

Joey Mendez

May 14th 2018

Social Movements

Interview Summary

The push polling was probably my least favorite tactic out of all of them. Our group conducted interviews on questions that were created by each member of the group. There was a total of 15 questions that were all about race. We did not conduct the interviews as a group which was a bummer to me because it would have been cool to hear all of the answers each individual got. I personally interviewed all of the Fresno State baseball team and my family and friends. I was not surprised to see that each person's answer was pretty much the same as the others. The thing that stood out the most to me was that everyone assumed that African Americans were the most deaths by police when it was really white Americans. One thing everyone who answered the questions agreed on was that racism is a threat to our country. They did feel that their was a solution for this social problem but did not know the exact solution to fix this massive problem. One way I feel our group could have done better is work together. Yeah we made the questions together but we did not work with each other when asking people these questions. I feel this even would have been way more enjoyable if I was able to hear the answers others got from the people they interviewed. I also feel that we could have picked out one specific problem with our movement and wrote all our questions about that one topic. I do feel that our push poll questions and interviews altered peoples opinions about our issue. I feel that it opened their eyes to see what's really going on and not just reading our hearing about it on the news. The people I interviewed are now more aware that racism is a huge thing in our country.