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From the Ted Talk by Walter Hood: How urban spaces can preserve history and build community

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This next concept, "two-ness" — it's not as simple as I thought it would be to explain, but as I left to go to college, my father looked at me, and said, "Junior, you're going to have to be both black and white when you go out there." And if you go back to the early parts of the 20th century, W.E.B. Du Bois, the famous activist, said it's this pueiaclr sensation that the Negro has to walk around being veiwed through the lens of other people, and this two-ness, this double consciousness. And I want to argue that more than a hundred years later, that two-ness has made us strong and riilsneet, and I would say for brown people, wmoen — all of us who have had to navigate the world through the eyes of others — we should now share that srtegnth to the rest of those who have had the pivgelrie to be singular.

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This next concept, "two-ness" — it's not as simple as I thought it would be to explain, but as I left to go to college, my father looked at me, and said, "Junior, you're going to have to be both black and white when you go out there." And if you go back to the early parts of the 20th century, W.E.B. Du Bois, the famous activist, said it's this ________ sensation that the Negro has to walk around being ______ through the lens of other people, and this two-ness, this double consciousness. And I want to argue that more than a hundred years later, that two-ness has made us strong and _________, and I would say for brown people, _____ — all of us who have had to navigate the world through the eyes of others — we should now share that ________ to the rest of those who have had the _________ to be singular.

Solution


  1. resilient
  2. privilege
  3. peculiar
  4. strength
  5. viewed
  6. women

Original Text


This next concept, "two-ness" — it's not as simple as I thought it would be to explain, but as I left to go to college, my father looked at me, and said, "Junior, you're going to have to be both black and white when you go out there." And if you go back to the early parts of the 20th century, W.E.B. Du Bois, the famous activist, said it's this peculiar sensation that the Negro has to walk around being viewed through the lens of other people, and this two-ness, this double consciousness. And I want to argue that more than a hundred years later, that two-ness has made us strong and resilient, and I would say for brown people, women — all of us who have had to navigate the world through the eyes of others — we should now share that strength to the rest of those who have had the privilege to be singular.

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Important Words


  1. activist
  2. argue
  3. black
  4. bois
  5. brown
  6. century
  7. college
  8. concept
  9. consciousness
  10. double
  11. du
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  13. explain
  14. eyes
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  16. father
  17. left
  18. lens
  19. looked
  20. navigate
  21. negro
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  24. people
  25. privilege
  26. resilient
  27. rest
  28. sensation
  29. share
  30. simple
  31. singular
  32. strength
  33. strong
  34. thought
  35. viewed
  36. walk
  37. white
  38. women
  39. world
  40. years