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From the Ted Talk by Glenn Cantave: How augmented reality is changing activism

Unscramble the Blue Letters


My name is gelnn, I'm 25, and I don't know my real last name. It's not uncommon in America. Most black people in this country are walking around with a slave owner's last name. Black history has been systemically erased and altered for centuries.

As I give this talk, there are more than 700 Confederate monuments standing nationwide. These were erected to honor cternoafede soldiers who fhuogt to maintain saervly — mostly in the South — from the 1890s to the 1950s, when Jim Crow laws enforcing racial segregation were in full effect. To this day, bclak ploepe are forced to connfort monuments of slaveholders in our public spaces. These memorials are a physical rtpenrotseiaen of a system that is actively working to define whose lives matter and whose lives do not.

Open Cloze


My name is _____, I'm 25, and I don't know my real last name. It's not uncommon in America. Most black people in this country are walking around with a slave owner's last name. Black history has been systemically erased and altered for centuries.

As I give this talk, there are more than 700 Confederate monuments standing nationwide. These were erected to honor ___________ soldiers who ______ to maintain _______ — mostly in the South — from the 1890s to the 1950s, when Jim Crow laws enforcing racial segregation were in full effect. To this day, _____ ______ are forced to ________ monuments of slaveholders in our public spaces. These memorials are a physical ______________ of a system that is actively working to define whose lives matter and whose lives do not.

Solution


  1. black
  2. slavery
  3. people
  4. glenn
  5. representation
  6. fought
  7. confederate
  8. confront

Original Text


My name is Glenn, I'm 25, and I don't know my real last name. It's not uncommon in America. Most black people in this country are walking around with a slave owner's last name. Black history has been systemically erased and altered for centuries.

As I give this talk, there are more than 700 Confederate monuments standing nationwide. These were erected to honor Confederate soldiers who fought to maintain slavery — mostly in the South — from the 1890s to the 1950s, when Jim Crow laws enforcing racial segregation were in full effect. To this day, black people are forced to confront monuments of slaveholders in our public spaces. These memorials are a physical representation of a system that is actively working to define whose lives matter and whose lives do not.

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Important Words


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