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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.83,0:00:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to talk to you about my kids.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.74,0:00:08.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I know everyone thinks\Nthat their kid is the most fantastic,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.42,0:00:10.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most beautiful kid that ever lived.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.35,0:00:12.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But mine really are.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.62,0:00:13.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.96,0:00:16.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have 696 kids,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.35,0:00:20.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they are the most intelligent,\Ninventive, innovative,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.83,0:00:24.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brilliant and powerful kids\Nthat you'll ever meet.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.26,0:00:30.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Any student I've had the honor of teaching\Nin my classroom is my kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.70,0:00:34.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, because their "real"\Nparents aren't rich
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.54,0:00:37.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, I argue, because they\Nare mostly of color,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.44,0:00:39.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they will seldom get to see in themselves
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.98,0:00:42.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the awesomeness that I see in them.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.84,0:00:45.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because what I see in them is myself --
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.90,0:00:48.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or what would have been myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.64,0:00:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am the daughter of two hardworking,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.06,0:00:54.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,college-educated, African-American parents
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.70,0:00:57.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who chose careers as public servants:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.44,0:01:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my father, a minister;\Nmy mother, an educator.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.08,0:01:04.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wealth was never the primary\Nambition in our house.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.98,0:01:06.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because of this lack of wealth,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.76,0:01:08.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we lived in a neighborhood\Nthat lacked wealth,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.100,0:01:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and henceforth a school system\Nthat lacked wealth.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.31,0:01:16.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Luckily, however, we struck\Nthe educational jackpot
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.17,0:01:18.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a voluntary desegregation program
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.57,0:01:21.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that buses inner-city kids --\Nblack and brown --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.96,0:01:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out to suburban schools -- rich and white.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.29,0:01:29.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At five years old, I had to take\Nan hour-long bus ride
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.07,0:01:31.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a faraway place
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.16,0:01:32.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get a better education.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.52,0:01:38.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At five years old, I thought\Neveryone had a life just like mine.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.62,0:01:40.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought everyone went to school
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.68,0:01:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and were the only ones\Nusing the brown crayons
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.06,0:01:44.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to color in their family portraits,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.75,0:01:47.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while everyone else was using\Nthe peach-colored ones.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.56,0:01:52.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At five years old, I thought\Neveryone was just like me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.79,0:01:56.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as I got older, I started\Nnoticing things, like:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.95,0:01:59.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How come my neighborhood friend\Ndon't have to wake up
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.53,0:02:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at five o'clock in the morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.10,0:02:03.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and go to a school that's an hour away?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.28,0:02:06.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How come I'm learning to play the violin
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.55,0:02:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while my neighborhood friends\Ndon't even have a music class?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.04,0:02:14.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why were my neighborhood friends\Nlearning and reading material
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.61,0:02:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I had done two to three years prior?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.88,0:02:19.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, as I got older,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.76,0:02:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started to have\Nthis unlawful feeling in my belly,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.72,0:02:28.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like I was doing something\Nthat I wasn't supposed to be doing;
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.65,0:02:31.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taking something that wasn't mine;
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.82,0:02:33.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,receiving a gift,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.54,0:02:35.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but with someone else's name on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.93,0:02:39.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All these amazing things\Nthat I was being exposed to
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.46,0:02:41.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and experiencing,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.18,0:02:44.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt I wasn't really supposed to have.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.19,0:02:49.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wasn't supposed to have a library,\Nfully equipped athletic facilities,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.24,0:02:51.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or safe fields to play in.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.21,0:02:54.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wasn't supposed to have\Ntheatre departments
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.48,0:02:56.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with seasonal plays and concerts --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.87,0:02:59.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,digital, visual, performing arts.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.60,0:03:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wasn't supposed to have\Nfully resourced biology or chemistry labs,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.28,0:03:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,school buses that brought me door-to-door,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.11,0:03:09.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,freshly prepared school lunches
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.56,0:03:11.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even air conditioning.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.13,0:03:14.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are things my kids don't get.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.66,0:03:16.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, as I got older,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.22,0:03:19.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while I was grateful\Nfor this amazing opportunity
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.26,0:03:20.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I was being given,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.93,0:03:23.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was this ever-present pang of:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.21,0:03:26.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what about everyone else?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.14,0:03:30.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are thousands\Nof other kids just like me,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.53,0:03:32.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who deserve this, too.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.29,0:03:34.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why doesn't everyone get this?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.45,0:03:38.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why is a high-quality education\Nonly exclusive to the rich?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.63,0:03:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was like I had some sort\Nof survivor's remorse.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.22,0:03:45.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of my neighborhood friends\Nwere experiencing
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.98,0:03:47.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an educational train wreck
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.83,0:03:51.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I was saved from through a bus ride.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.07,0:03:54.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was like an educational Moses screaming,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.58,0:03:56.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Let my people go ...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.22,0:03:58.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to high-quality schools!"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.08,0:03:59.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.52,0:04:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd seen firsthand how the other half\Nwas being treated and educated.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.10,0:04:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd seen the educational promised land,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.07,0:04:11.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I could not for the life of me\Njustify the disparity.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.55,0:04:18.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I now teach in the very same school system\Nfrom which I sought refuge.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.87,0:04:23.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know firsthand the tools\Nthat were given to me as a student,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.43,0:04:27.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now as a teacher, I don't have\Naccess to those same tools
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.38,0:04:28.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to give my students.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.45,0:04:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There have been countless nights\Nwhen I've cried in frustration,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.05,0:04:35.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anger
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.35,0:04:36.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sorrow,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.76,0:04:40.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I can't teach my kids\Nthe way that I was taught,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.58,0:04:44.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I don't have access\Nto the same resources or tools
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.80,0:04:46.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that were used to teach me.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.39,0:04:49.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My kids deserve so much better.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.27,0:04:53.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We sit and we keep banging\Nour heads again this term:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.16,0:04:55.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Achievement gap, achievement gap!"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.46,0:04:59.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it really that hard to understand
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.42,0:05:02.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why these kids perform well\Nand these kids don't?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.67,0:05:04.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, really.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.66,0:05:06.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we've got it all wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.96,0:05:08.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.14,0:05:10.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as Gloria Ladson-Billings says,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.25,0:05:14.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should flip our paradigm and our language\Nand call it was it really is.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.52,0:05:17.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not an achievement gap;
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.88,0:05:19.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's an education debt,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.42,0:05:25.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for all of the foregone schooling\Nresources that were never invested
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.72,0:05:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the education of the black\Nand brown child over time.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.82,0:05:33.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A little-known secret in American history
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.87,0:05:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that the only American institution\Ncreated specifically for people of color
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.71,0:05:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the American slave trade --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.87,0:05:43.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some would argue the prison system,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.84,0:05:46.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that's another topic\Nfor another TED Talk.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.09,0:05:47.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.65,0:05:51.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The public school system of this country\Nwas built, bought and paid for
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.97,0:05:56.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,using commerce generated\Nfrom the slave trade and slave labor.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.65,0:06:00.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While African-Americans were enslaved\Nand prohibited from schooling,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.64,0:06:03.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their labor established\Nthe very institution
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.82,0:06:05.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from which they were excluded.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.04,0:06:11.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ever since then, every court case,\Neducational policy, reform,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.14,0:06:14.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been an attempt\Nto retrofit the design,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.42,0:06:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than just stopping\Nand acknowledging:
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.11,0:06:19.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've had it all wrong from the beginning.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.24,0:06:25.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An oversimplification\Nof American educational history.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.31,0:06:26.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, just bear with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.68,0:06:30.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blacks were kept out -- you know,\Nthe whole slavery thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.26,0:06:33.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With the help\Nof philanthropic white people,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.36,0:06:34.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they built their own schools.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.94,0:06:37.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Separate but equal was OK.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.73,0:06:40.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But while we all know\Nthings were indeed separate,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.48,0:06:42.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were in no ways equal.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.57,0:06:47.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enter Brown v. the Board of Education\Nof Topeka, Kansas in 1954;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.76,0:06:50.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,legal separation of the races\Nis now illegal.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.90,0:06:58.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But very few people pay attention\Nto all of the court cases since then,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.15,0:07:03.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that have undone the educational\Npromised land for every child
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.45,0:07:06.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Brown v. Board intended.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.44,0:07:10.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some argue that today our schools\Nare now more segregated
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.18,0:07:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than they ever were before we tried\Nto desegregate them in the first place.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.96,0:07:19.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Teaching my kids about desegregation,\Nthe Little Rock Nine,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.58,0:07:20.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Civil Rights Movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.91,0:07:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a real awkward moment in my classroom,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.26,0:07:26.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I have to hear\Nthe voice of a child ask,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.94,0:07:31.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If schools were desegregated in 1954,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.27,0:07:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how come there are no white kids here?"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.59,0:07:35.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.07,0:07:36.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These kids aren't dumb.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.29,0:07:39.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They know exactly what's happening,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.54,0:07:40.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what's not.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.53,0:07:43.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They know that when it comes to schooling,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.67,0:07:46.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,black lives don't matter
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.08,0:07:48.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they never have.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.32,0:07:56.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For years, I tried desperately\Nto cultivate in my kids a love of reading.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.42,0:08:00.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd amassed a modest classroom library
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.30,0:08:03.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of books I'd accumulated\Nfrom secondhand shops,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.62,0:08:06.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thrift stores, attics -- you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.11,0:08:08.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But whenever I said those dreadful words,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.60,0:08:10.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Take out a book and read,"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.82,0:08:13.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you'd think I'd just declared war.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.27,0:08:14.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was torture.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.69,0:08:16.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One day,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.18,0:08:20.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after I'd heard about this website\Ncalled DonorsChoose,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.34,0:08:22.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where classroom teachers create wish lists
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.68,0:08:24.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of items they need for their classroom
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.81,0:08:27.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and anonymous donors fulfill them,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.36,0:08:31.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I figured I'd go out on a limb\Nand just make a wish list
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.38,0:08:34.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the teenager's dream library.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.70,0:08:39.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over 200 brand-new books\Nwere sent to my room piece by piece.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.67,0:08:45.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every day there were new deliveries\Nand my kids would exclaim with glee,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.27,0:08:47.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This feels like Christmas!"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.25,0:08:48.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.35,0:08:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then they'd say,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.54,0:08:52.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Ms. Sumner, where did\Nthese books come from?"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.44,0:08:53.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I'd reply,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.68,0:08:57.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Strangers from all over the country\Nwanted you to have these."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.27,0:09:00.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then they'd say, almost suspiciously,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.47,0:09:04.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But they're brand-new."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.22,0:09:05.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.25,0:09:06.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To which I'd reply,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.85,0:09:08.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You deserve brand-new books."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.14,0:09:13.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The whole experience hit home\Nfor me when one of my girls,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.58,0:09:16.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as she peeled open a crisp paperback said,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.58,0:09:21.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Ms. Sumner -- you know,\NI figured you bought these books,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.98,0:09:24.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'cause you teachers\Nare always buying us stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.16,0:09:29.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But to know that a stranger,\Nsomeone I don't even know,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.21,0:09:30.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cares this much about me
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.48,0:09:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is pretty cool."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.87,0:09:36.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Knowing that strangers\Nwill take care of you
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.52,0:09:38.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a privilege my kids aren't afforded.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.34,0:09:41.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ever since the donation,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.81,0:09:45.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there has been a steady stream of kids\Nsigning out books to take home,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.69,0:09:48.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then returning them\Nwith the exclamation,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.37,0:09:49.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This one was good!"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.99,0:09:51.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.06,0:09:53.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now when I say,\N"Take out a book and read,"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.38,0:09:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kids rush to my library.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.85,0:09:58.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't that they didn't want to read,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.92,0:10:03.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but instead, they'd gladly read\Nif the resources were there.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.58,0:10:07.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Institutionally speaking,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.26,0:10:11.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our public school system has never\Ndone right by the black and brown child.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.07,0:10:14.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We keep focusing on the end results
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.64,0:10:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or test results,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.03,0:10:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and getting frustrated.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.90,0:10:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We get to a catastrophe and we wonder,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.06,0:10:22.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How did it get so bad?\NHow did we get here?"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.89,0:10:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Really?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.44,0:10:27.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you neglect a child long enough,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.54,0:10:30.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you no longer have\Nthe right to be surprised
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.65,0:10:32.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when things don't turn out well.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.32,0:10:35.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stop being perplexed
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.08,0:10:36.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or confused
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.73,0:10:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or befuddled
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.68,0:10:40.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the achievement gap,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.63,0:10:41.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the income gap,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.88,0:10:43.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the incarceration rates,\
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.52,0:10:48.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whatever socioeconomic disparity\Nis the new "it" term for the moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.25,0:10:51.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The problems we have as a country
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.71,0:10:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are the problems we created as a country.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.74,0:10:58.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The quality of your education\Nis directly proportionate
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.30,0:11:00.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to your access to college,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.18,0:11:01.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your access to jobs,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.94,0:11:03.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your access to the future.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.59,0:11:10.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until we live in a world where every kid\Ncan get a high-quality education
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.89,0:11:12.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter where they live,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.45,0:11:14.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the color of their skin,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.35,0:11:18.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are things we can do\Non a macro level.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.39,0:11:22.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,School funding should not\Nbe decided by property taxes
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.98,0:11:25.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or some funky economic equation
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.23,0:11:28.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where rich kids continue\Nto benefit from state aid,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.29,0:11:32.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while poor kids are continuously\Nhaving food and resources
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.40,0:11:33.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taken from their mouths.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.75,0:11:38.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Governors, senators, mayors,\Ncity council members --
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.54,0:11:41.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we're going to call\Npublic education public education,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.42,0:11:43.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then it should be just that.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.56,0:11:46.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Otherwise, we should\Ncall it what it really is:
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.56,0:11:48.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,poverty insurance.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.21,0:11:50.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Public education:
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.68,0:11:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,keeping poor kids poor since 1954."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.79,0:11:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.73,0:12:01.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we really, as a country, believe\Nthat education is the "great equalizer,"
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.86,0:12:05.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then it should be just that:\Nequal and equitable.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.16,0:12:10.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until then, there's no democracy\Nin our democratic education.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.49,0:12:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On a mezzo level:
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.64,0:12:16.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,historically speaking, the education\Nof the black and brown child
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.87,0:12:20.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has always depended\Non the philanthropy of others.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.36,0:12:23.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And unfortunately, today it still does.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.77,0:12:28.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If your son or daughter or niece\Nor nephew or neighbor
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.16,0:12:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or little Timmy down the street
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.25,0:12:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,goes to an affluent school,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.58,0:12:35.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,challenge your school committee\Nto adopt an impoverished school
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.78,0:12:37.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or an impoverished classroom.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.84,0:12:41.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Close the divide by engaging\Nin communication
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.26,0:12:43.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and relationships that matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.05,0:12:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When resources are shared,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.03,0:12:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're not divided;
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.74,0:12:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're multiplied.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.87,0:12:51.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And on a micro level:
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.73,0:12:53.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you're a human being,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.98,0:12:55.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,donate.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.52,0:12:59.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Time, money, resources, opportunities --
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.61,0:13:01.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever is in your heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.85,0:13:05.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are websites like DonorsChoose
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.08,0:13:07.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that recognize the disparity
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.15,0:13:09.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and actually want\Nto do something about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.75,0:13:13.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is a carpenter with no tools?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.35,0:13:16.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is an actress with no stage?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.99,0:13:19.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is a scientist with no laboratory?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.86,0:13:22.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is a doctor with no equipment?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:23.27,0:13:24.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll tell you:
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.97,0:13:26.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're my kids.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.22,0:13:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shouldn't they be your kids, too?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.89,0:13:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.07,0:13:37.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)