![]() ![]() ![]() Then the disgusting talk about developments in the nearby (much more developed and equipped) white school and the statement how white people will study STEM whilst Black people will do well in sports so that all little heads which were otherwise proud to graduate went down on their chest in sadness and destruction of dreams or hope that things will be better. What was striking for me the most was the audacity of white people (or white folks as Angelou reports her Black community was calling them) in deliberately not showing respect and calling Black women Ms as they would with a white woman and coming to a graduation ceremony and just taking a seat leaving a Black school official without a seat to seat on. Lous, then California and how she navigated more progressive states, differences between segregated Arkansas and more progressive St Louis and California. The book describes a lived experience of racism and intimate feelings of a Black woman, girl in the large part of the book, and her growing up in a segregated Arkansas, then moving to St. I knew about racism in America, particularly in the 1920s but this book describes more than that. ![]() If you ever wondered why the Black Lives Matter movement is kicking off, this book will tell you why. As part of the #WECAN project’s book club, our next book to discuss is Maya Angelou’s famous book ‘I know why the caged bird sings’, which I heard about but never read. ![]()
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