Yesterday I overheard a few teenagers talking about Obama at the bus stop.
"You know he's from Africa. What I'm saying is that could be you or me."
"True"
True.
A Black President and First Lady in the White House obviously does not wash away the persistent racial inequities in the US. But a pedagogy of hope goes a long way to battle misery, like the kind we see in Kiri Davis' short film A Girl Like Me:
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I show this video to my pre-service teachers at Fairmont State University in West Virginia to illustrate the relationship between literacy, identity, and power! Then we read Purcell-Gates "As soon as she opened her mouth..." to understand how Appalachian language has been marginalized and contributes to the persistent high illustrated rates in West Virginia.
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