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The first video was very interesting to watch. She started the ted talk by talking about her love for books and how she thought as a young child that she wasn't supposed to identify with characters in these books. It seems like something white people living in america would never understand or feel.

It shocks me that her american roommate was so ignorant about the way she lives and assumed that she did not know how to use a stove.

political fear - living in a government controlled environment.


Sarah Jones - she begins talking about how one identifies and how people feel comfortable or not in their bodies. She creates characters with diversity in mind.

cultural disparities - she creates characters based mostly on people she knows.

She has a great point - she doesn't want to be forced to embrace everyone culture just because its politically correct. "if the stature of liberty could talk today she would say there's no more room"


Anna Deavere Smith - wants to show light on minorities in schools, and the school to prison pipeline. "rich kids get mischief and poor kids get jail."

people believe that young black men are a menace to society.

"the only whole heart is a broken heart."


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