To My Old Master

The link I'm going to show you today is nothing but amazing. We have in 9th grade talked about the slavery in the US and we are going to talk more about it after Christmas, but I just cannot wait to show you this. We have talked about how many former slaves stayed with their slave owners, because they had nowhere else to go, and were bound to a life in poverty.

The letter I am linking to is written by a former slave in 1865 (the year the American Civil War ended - remember?) and is an answer to his former slave-owner who wants him to come back to work for him.

Read this and have a goose-bump moment. I did.

How Obama Tackled the Race Issue

During the last presidental campaign, Obama managed to avoid talking about race for a very long time. That was until the media found out that he had been attending the church of the controversial minister Jeremiah Wright. In this video, by THNKR, different speechwriters who has worked for presidents (you didn't think they write their own speeches?) analyzes the speech Obama gave as an answer to the critique. This may sound boring, but trust me: if you like to learn how to use words as a weapon, you want to watch this! You can learn A LOT. Notice the different parts of the speech, emphasized by the green headlines.