GoogleFest
Last night Brooklyn, Dimmi, and I went up to Park City to watch The Trials of Darryl Hunt, part of the Sundance Documentary series. Dimmi already wrote a great summary of the experience, so I won't bother reviewing that. Suffice it to say that we had a great time and that it was a very eye-opening experience to racism, unfairness, and prejudice in the US today, both in North Carolina (the locale of the film) and in our own lives. But that's not the point of this post.
On the way up, we were trying to contact someone that could give us exact directions to the Park City Library when Dimmi mentioned that you can send a text to GOOGL (46645) and get driving directions to any destination, along with lots of other information. We ended up getting hold of one of Brooklyn's friends, so we didn't have to use Google, but we were still impressed that it was possible.
After the show, Brooklyn saw a couple of her friends, so we met up with them. We eventually made our way outside and talked for a bit. Brooklyn remembered what Dimmi had showed us about Google and started telling her friends about it. We all ended up talking about the amazing things that Google does for about ten minutes. The producer of the movie walked past us on her way out and probably felt like she'd been a total failure; ten minutes after the show we're not even thinking about it.
Then it hit us. There we were, a group of five college students standing in the cold Park City air at 10:00 PM raving about Google for minutes on end.
What more could they ask for?
4 comments:
Excellent post!!!:)
I'm from NC, racism is alive and well I am sorry to say. But somehow I highly doubt that he was convited only because he was black and she was white--we aren't THAT backwards. Don't forget that unless you have lived in those circumstances out there you can't judge what it is like!
To anonymous:
Yellow just gave a simplified version. You should see the movie, no worries - it was a lot more complicated than that. It was simply a factor. Also, the original conviction took place twenty years ago, when it was a much stronger factor than it was in the last trial, in which he was exhonerated. In the most recent trial, many of the white churches and ministers and community groups were on the side of the defense as well.
Thanks for your concern that it be a balanced line of thought!
Maybe Google can put an end to racism!
"Don't be racist"
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