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From the Ted Talk by Dread Scott: How art can shape America's conversation about freedom

Unscramble the Blue Letters


People wrote long and short answers. Thousands of people engaged with the work in a lot of different languages. Some of the ppeloe said, "I'm a German girl. If we Germans would admire our flag as you all do, we would be called Nazis again. I think you do have too much trouble about this flag." "I think that the artist should be rrueetnd to his heritage, i.e., the jguenls of Africa, and then he can svheol manure in his artistic way." "This flag I'm standing on stands for everything oppressive in this system: the mruder of the iindans and all the oppressed around the world, including my brother who was shot by a pig, who kicked over his body to 'make sure the nigger was dead.' That pig was waenrig the flag. Thank you, Dread Scott, for this opportunity." "As a veteran dnifneedg the flag, I personally would never dfeend your stupid ass! You should be shot!" — US Navy Seal Team.

Open Cloze


People wrote long and short answers. Thousands of people engaged with the work in a lot of different languages. Some of the ______ said, "I'm a German girl. If we Germans would admire our flag as you all do, we would be called Nazis again. I think you do have too much trouble about this flag." "I think that the artist should be ________ to his heritage, i.e., the _______ of Africa, and then he can ______ manure in his artistic way." "This flag I'm standing on stands for everything oppressive in this system: the ______ of the _______ and all the oppressed around the world, including my brother who was shot by a pig, who kicked over his body to 'make sure the nigger was dead.' That pig was _______ the flag. Thank you, Dread Scott, for this opportunity." "As a veteran _________ the flag, I personally would never ______ your stupid ass! You should be shot!" — US Navy Seal Team.

Solution


  1. murder
  2. people
  3. indians
  4. wearing
  5. defend
  6. returned
  7. defending
  8. shovel
  9. jungles

Original Text


People wrote long and short answers. Thousands of people engaged with the work in a lot of different languages. Some of the people said, "I'm a German girl. If we Germans would admire our flag as you all do, we would be called Nazis again. I think you do have too much trouble about this flag." "I think that the artist should be returned to his heritage, i.e., the jungles of Africa, and then he can shovel manure in his artistic way." "This flag I'm standing on stands for everything oppressive in this system: the murder of the Indians and all the oppressed around the world, including my brother who was shot by a pig, who kicked over his body to 'make sure the nigger was dead.' That pig was wearing the flag. Thank you, Dread Scott, for this opportunity." "As a veteran defending the flag, I personally would never defend your stupid ass! You should be shot!" — US Navy Seal Team.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
american flag 2
photo montage 2
photo shoot 2


Important Words


  1. admire
  2. africa
  3. answers
  4. artist
  5. artistic
  6. body
  7. brother
  8. called
  9. dead
  10. defend
  11. defending
  12. dread
  13. engaged
  14. flag
  15. german
  16. germans
  17. girl
  18. heritage
  19. including
  20. indians
  21. jungles
  22. kicked
  23. languages
  24. long
  25. lot
  26. manure
  27. murder
  28. navy
  29. nazis
  30. nigger
  31. opportunity
  32. oppressed
  33. oppressive
  34. people
  35. personally
  36. pig
  37. returned
  38. scott
  39. seal
  40. short
  41. shot
  42. shovel
  43. standing
  44. stands
  45. stupid
  46. team
  47. thousands
  48. trouble
  49. veteran
  50. wearing
  51. work
  52. world
  53. wrote