The Danger of a Single Story

I originally posted this video over a year ago...and  have watched it over and over.   Now, as I prepare for a presentation in the morning with some High School students, I'm re-watching it again and  re-minded of how powerful it is and can't help but to...re-post!



"... Show a people as one thing, and only one thing over and over again, and that is what they become..."

"power is the ability to not just tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. ...'If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and  start with "secondly." Start  the story with the arrows of the Native Americans and not with the arrival of the British, and you have an entirely different story.  Start the story with the failure of the African state and not with the colonial creation of the African state and you have an entirely different story."