"In the stories we tell children..."

It is often said that you can tell what a people value by listening to the stories they tell children.

I came across this film a few weeks ago, and remembered seeing a portion of it in a middle school french class. It means so much more now that I am older. Watch the film and tell me what you think. Don't worry! There are subtitles! Runtime: 74 mins

The Politics of Cultural Memory

The Politics of Cultural Memory

"People will not challenge us. They must treat us with silence… So watch who people quote when it comes to Black scholarship. If they’re quoted forget them… If they are considered the most ‘compelling,’ the most ‘brilliant’ what you see then is someone that does not help us. It is the invisible…

… It is the ones that we know… the ones who are not considered the best by White scholars who stand over our archives like vultures keeping our history hostage and asking as the price of admission that you trade your soul for access to the things that your ancestors inscribed. Those people that write on the backs of books that ‘this is the finest new scholar,’ that is the person that you should never quote. Rather, buy all their books, read them for the sources, get the sources yourself because what they have contributed is not a frame for interpreting but rather they have just given you a road map to the things that you need to reclaim.” - Dr. Gregory Carr

http://www.voxunion.com/?p=1978