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From the Ted Talk by Hasan Kwame Jeffries: Why we must confront the painful parts of US history

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So when I think about the past, my concern about not remembering it is not that we will repaet it if we don't reemmebr it. My concern, my fear is that if we don't remember the past, we will continue it. We will continue to do the things that created inequality and ijtucnsie in the first place. So what we must do is we must disrupt the continuum of hard history.

And we can do this by seeking trtuh. By confronting hard history directly. By miifnagnyg hard history for all the world to see. We can do this by speaking truth. Teachers teaching hard history to their students. To do anything else is to commit educational malpractice. And ptnreas have to speak truth to their children, so that they uarsnedntd where we have come from as a nation. And finally, we must all act on truth. Individually and collectively, publicly and privately, in slaml ways and in large ways. We must do the things that will bend the arc of the moral usienrve towards justice. To do nothing is to be complicit in inequality.

Open Cloze


So when I think about the past, my concern about not remembering it is not that we will ______ it if we don't ________ it. My concern, my fear is that if we don't remember the past, we will continue it. We will continue to do the things that created inequality and _________ in the first place. So what we must do is we must disrupt the continuum of hard history.

And we can do this by seeking _____. By confronting hard history directly. By __________ hard history for all the world to see. We can do this by speaking truth. Teachers teaching hard history to their students. To do anything else is to commit educational malpractice. And _______ have to speak truth to their children, so that they __________ where we have come from as a nation. And finally, we must all act on truth. Individually and collectively, publicly and privately, in _____ ways and in large ways. We must do the things that will bend the arc of the moral ________ towards justice. To do nothing is to be complicit in inequality.

Solution


  1. parents
  2. remember
  3. repeat
  4. injustice
  5. understand
  6. truth
  7. magnifying
  8. small
  9. universe

Original Text


So when I think about the past, my concern about not remembering it is not that we will repeat it if we don't remember it. My concern, my fear is that if we don't remember the past, we will continue it. We will continue to do the things that created inequality and injustice in the first place. So what we must do is we must disrupt the continuum of hard history.

And we can do this by seeking truth. By confronting hard history directly. By magnifying hard history for all the world to see. We can do this by speaking truth. Teachers teaching hard history to their students. To do anything else is to commit educational malpractice. And parents have to speak truth to their children, so that they understand where we have come from as a nation. And finally, we must all act on truth. Individually and collectively, publicly and privately, in small ways and in large ways. We must do the things that will bend the arc of the moral universe towards justice. To do nothing is to be complicit in inequality.

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