Dear Mr. Baldwin From, DTE 2017 by Sonal https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017 As you read " A Talk to Teachers" by James Balwin, pick 1 quote. Write a letter (use formal letter writing format) to Mr. Baldwin, reflecting on how his words and this quote in particular integrates with what you are learning in 390/DTE so far regarding race and culture. Upload the letter to this Padlet, place your name in the Title part of the post and include the direct quote you are picking from "A Talk to Teachers." en-us 2017-06-21 06:07:41 UTC 2023-02-27 20:39:22 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/24162912/5cdd272527a3ea064d14107cc62aa9af/baldwin_and_me.jpg Hi DTE 2017-18 Crew sonal https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180080395 Looking forward to seeing how you connect with Baldwin.  LOVE, SONAL]]> 2017-08-03 22:43:06 UTC https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180080395 Ivan Tiet tonypresent https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180223407 “Therefore it is almost impossible for any Negro child to discover anything about his actual history.  The reason is that this “animal,” once he suspects his own worth, once he starts believing that he is a man, has begun to attack the entire power structure.  This is why America has spent such a long time keeping the Negro in his place. 

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]]> 2017-08-07 01:49:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180223407 Henna Bianchini https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180231427 “The government is the creation of the people. It is responsible to the people. And the people are responsible for it. No American has the right to allow the present government to say, when Negro children are being bombed and hosed and shot and beaten all over the Deep South, that there is nothing we can do about it.” ]]> 2017-08-07 03:04:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180231427 Carly Nathan carly_nathan https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180292755 2017-08-07 18:23:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180292755 Yumi Look https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180299032 "It is not really a ‘Negro revolution’ that is upsetting the country. What is upsetting the country is a sense of its own identity."]]> 2017-08-07 19:36:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180299032 Emma Tadlock-Goldsmith https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180317549 "If, for example, one managed to change the curriculum in all the schools so that Negroes learned more about themselves and their real contributions to this culture, you would be liberating not only Negroes, you’d be liberating white people who know nothing about their own history.  And the reason is that if you are compelled to lie about one aspect of anybody’s history, you must lie about it all." ]]> 2017-08-08 00:32:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180317549 “The crucial paradox which confronts us here is that the whole process of education occurs within a social framework and is designed to perpetuate the aims of society.” ~James Baldwin katya_meltaus https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180319951 2017-08-08 00:58:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180319951 Teresa Del Real https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180342113 "I would teach him that if he intends to get to be a man, he must at once decide that his is stronger than this conspiracy and they he must never make his peace with it.  And that one of his weapons for refusing to make his peace with it and for destroying it depends on what he decides he is worth."]]> 2017-08-08 06:29:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180342113 Jordan Anderson jordanpcanderson https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180348017 "What I am trying to suggest here is that in the doing of all this for 100 years or more, it is the American white man who has long since lost his grip on reality.]]> 2017-08-08 08:16:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180348017 Jayme Kritzler https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180387930 “It is not really a ‘Negro revolution’ that is upsetting the country. What is upsetting the country is a sense of its own identity. If, for example, one managed to change the curriculum in all the schools so that Negroes learned more about themselves and their real contributions to this culture, you would be liberating not only Negroes, you’d be liberating white people who know nothing about their own history.”

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]]> 2017-08-08 16:46:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180387930 Andy Acosta andy_acosta https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180403270 "The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not.  To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity." ]]> 2017-08-08 18:54:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180403270 Maisy Bolgatz https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180420492 “What is upsetting the country is a sense of its own identity.”

]]> 2017-08-08 22:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180420492 April Schlenk april_schlenk https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180438992 "If...one managed to change the curriculum in all the schools so that Negroes learned more about themselves and their real contributions to this culture, you would be liberating not only Negroes, you'd be liberating white people who know nothing about their own history."]]> 2017-08-09 02:45:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180438992 Meredith Witt https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180440935  
What societies really, ideally, want is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society.  If a society succeeds in this, that society is about to perish.  The obligation of anyone who thinks of himself as responsible is to examine society and try to change it and to fight it – at no matter what risk.  This is the only hope society has.  This is the only way societies change.
]]> 2017-08-09 03:10:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180440935 "…must understand that in the attempt to correct so many generations of bad faith and cruelty, when it is operating not only in the classroom but in society, you will meet the most fantastic, the most brutal, and the most determined resistance." maximusprime5150 https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180444423 2017-08-09 04:01:59 UTC https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180444423 Elijah Behar https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180445362 "It is not really a “Negro revolution” that is upsetting the country.  What is upsetting the country is a sense of its own identity...]]> 2017-08-09 04:16:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180445362 Ryan Derham https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180448386 "If, for example, one managed to change the curriculum in all the schools so that 
Negroes learned more about themselves and their real contributions to this culture, you would be liberating not only Negroes, you’d be liberating white people who know nothing about their own history."
]]> 2017-08-09 04:45:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180448386 Paula Hansen https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180449619 “It is not really a “Negro revolution” that is upsetting this country. What is upsetting this country is a sense of its own identity. If, for example, one managed to change curriculum in all the schools so that Negroes learned more about themselves, and their real contributions in this culture, you would be liberating not only Negroes, you’d be liberating White people who know nothing about their history.” ]]> 2017-08-09 04:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180449619 Oliver Wolken https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180450729 "The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not.  To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity."]]> 2017-08-09 05:17:18 UTC https://padlet.com/sonal/Baldwin2017/wish/180450729