https://padlet.com/jbadillo4/yy9ot31tmxs9g2w4 7 en-us 2021-03-11 13:42:25 UTC 2021-03-11 14:30:43 UTC hello@padlet.com jbadillo4 https://padlet.com/jbadillo4/yy9ot31tmxs9g2w4/wish/1297929170 2021-03-11 13:42:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jbadillo4/yy9ot31tmxs9g2w4/wish/1297929170 jbadillo4 https://padlet.com/jbadillo4/yy9ot31tmxs9g2w4/wish/1297929173 "I'm a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call "the danger of the single story."]]> 2021-03-11 13:42:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jbadillo4/yy9ot31tmxs9g2w4/wish/1297929173 jbadillo4 https://padlet.com/jbadillo4/yy9ot31tmxs9g2w4/wish/1297929174 "Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity. "]]> 2021-03-11 13:42:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jbadillo4/yy9ot31tmxs9g2w4/wish/1297929174 jbadillo4 https://padlet.com/jbadillo4/yy9ot31tmxs9g2w4/wish/1297929176 Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with, "secondly." ]]> 2021-03-11 13:42:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jbadillo4/yy9ot31tmxs9g2w4/wish/1297929176 jbadillo4 https://padlet.com/jbadillo4/yy9ot31tmxs9g2w4/wish/1297929178 Too often a storyteller gives just one perspective, so it is important here when the speaker says she will tell the reader "a few personal stories". She provides multiple stories revealing a more complete view of her identity. I believe this is an example of using stories "to empower and humanize". The speaker tells stories to complete our understanding of how various stories together give a more complete picture of a person or place. Putting the good stories together with tales of challenges makes her relate-able and believable. ]]> 2021-03-11 13:42:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jbadillo4/yy9ot31tmxs9g2w4/wish/1297929178 jbadillo4 https://padlet.com/jbadillo4/yy9ot31tmxs9g2w4/wish/1297929181 2021-03-11 13:42:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jbadillo4/yy9ot31tmxs9g2w4/wish/1297929181 isaiahatherton https://padlet.com/jbadillo4/yy9ot31tmxs9g2w4/wish/1298134773 English speaker]]> 2021-03-11 14:18:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jbadillo4/yy9ot31tmxs9g2w4/wish/1298134773 isaiahatherton https://padlet.com/jbadillo4/yy9ot31tmxs9g2w4/wish/1298142622 "Years later, I thought about this when I left Nigeria to go to university in the United States. I was 19. My American roommate was shocked by me. She asked where I had learned to speak English so well, and was confused when I said that Nigeria happened to have English as its official language. She asked if she could listen to what she called my "tribal music,"]]> 2021-03-11 14:19:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jbadillo4/yy9ot31tmxs9g2w4/wish/1298142622 isaiahatherton https://padlet.com/jbadillo4/yy9ot31tmxs9g2w4/wish/1298163704 I think my quote connects to the passage stories matter, because when she first got to the university her roommate was shocked because she could speak English. The roommate was just relying on stereotypes about her and once she heard more stories about her she had more dignity because the roommate listened to the stories and started to understand that stereotypes are not how you define a person.]]> 2021-03-11 14:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jbadillo4/yy9ot31tmxs9g2w4/wish/1298163704