The video above is Matthew R. Kay's keynote address at the 2019 Philadelphia Writing Project conference. Rather than running it as a traditional lecture, Mr. Kay delivers his address in the style of a classroom workshop. This video serves as an EXCELLENT demonstration of how to facilitate conversations about race. Lots of easily transferable ideas for your classroom.
Matthew Kay asks us: How many times, when discussing race, is oppression the only context we ever use? How much of our classroom conversations about race involve an "overcoming White people" narrative? Why do we consistently insert White people into every conversation about Brown people?
