3.4 Bullet Points

1. I think that the assistant chief was worried that the mural would stir controversy that the department would rather not deal with. Religion and anything affiliated with it tends to do that. The main factor that probably motivated his decision was that the department is in charge of security and the mural is a risk factor for vandalism, protest, and other possible unnecessary time sinks for the department.

Ideally, i think that the people affected should have tried to set a second meeting with the assistant chief of police and maybe the department itself before letting the assistant chief leave. This way, the assistant chief doesn't leave thinking that he had it his way only to be confronted later with something different. Also, confronting him then and there wouldn't be ideal as both sides weren't prepared for a confrontation yet.

2. "I" separates itself from the "We" due to the nature of individuality. The individual has their own set of beliefs, motivations, abilities, and other attributes and qualities that can be called his or her own. What brings "I" and "We" together is when multiple individuals bring something positive (unique or not) to the table. "We" are actually individual "I"s working together in different ways to accomplish the same goal.

The multiple levels of "I" that i saw were the people as individuals, the students who were connected to each other VS the community they were going to help, and the artists, students, community partners, the teacher, etc VS the assistant chief's idea. The multiple levels of "we" were the educated students VS the "at-risk" artists, the people that saw the mural as a source of empowerment VS those who saw the mural as a source of controversy, and the community as a whole. In other words, the multiple levels of "I" ranged from individuals to a broad group of people with something that binds them together, and the multiple levels of "we" ranged from the same broad group of people as "I", to the entire community as a whole.