Had a wonderful time at the introduction to the Black History Month program last week :-) The program opened up with an African performance spoken in their native tongue which, in my opinion, was rhetorically genius in that it pulled viewers into what the program was about. The speakers of the day was Stanley James and his use of irony, humor, and sarcasm kept me on my toes the entire program. Learning how ignorant some people are about culture other than their own was absolutely baffling to me. "Sarah Palin thought that Africa was a country and that Martin Luther King was its leader... he [MLK] led Africans to the U.S in the 1960s because she never saw them on T.V. before then..." (Stanley James) This is just a small example of what was gone over this past wednesday; i for one can not wait until his next speech Feb. 16th!!
