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From the Ted Talk by Brittney Cooper: The racial politics of time

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I believe the future is what we make it. But first, we have to decide that time belongs to all of us. No, we don't all get equal time, but we can dedice that the time we do get is just and free. We can stop making your zip code the primary dntemreinat of your lifespan. We can stop stealing learning time from black children through excessive use of suspensions and expulsions. We can stop stealing time from black people through long pierdos of incarceration for nonviolent crimes. The pcolie can stop sintlaeg time and black lives through use of excessive force.

I believe the frtuue is what we make it. But we can't get there on colored people's time or white time or your time or even my time. It's our time. Ours.

Open Cloze


I believe the future is what we make it. But first, we have to decide that time belongs to all of us. No, we don't all get equal time, but we can ______ that the time we do get is just and free. We can stop making your zip code the primary ___________ of your lifespan. We can stop stealing learning time from black children through excessive use of suspensions and expulsions. We can stop stealing time from black people through long _______ of incarceration for nonviolent crimes. The ______ can stop ________ time and black lives through use of excessive force.

I believe the ______ is what we make it. But we can't get there on colored people's time or white time or your time or even my time. It's our time. Ours.

Solution


  1. determinant
  2. periods
  3. stealing
  4. police
  5. future
  6. decide

Original Text


I believe the future is what we make it. But first, we have to decide that time belongs to all of us. No, we don't all get equal time, but we can decide that the time we do get is just and free. We can stop making your zip code the primary determinant of your lifespan. We can stop stealing learning time from black children through excessive use of suspensions and expulsions. We can stop stealing time from black people through long periods of incarceration for nonviolent crimes. The police can stop stealing time and black lives through use of excessive force.

I believe the future is what we make it. But we can't get there on colored people's time or white time or your time or even my time. It's our time. Ours.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
black people 8
white people 5
zip code 4
social inclusion 3
voting rights 3
children born 3
stop stealing 3
political conditions 2
historical part 2
black lives 2
racial struggles 2
voter id 2
orleans zip 2
years longer 2
black children 2
lost moments 2
stealing time 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
orleans zip code 2
stop stealing time 2

Important Words


  1. belongs
  2. black
  3. children
  4. code
  5. colored
  6. crimes
  7. decide
  8. determinant
  9. equal
  10. excessive
  11. expulsions
  12. force
  13. free
  14. future
  15. incarceration
  16. learning
  17. lifespan
  18. lives
  19. long
  20. making
  21. nonviolent
  22. people
  23. periods
  24. police
  25. primary
  26. stealing
  27. stop
  28. suspensions
  29. time
  30. white
  31. zip