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...noticing that at this event, “Reverential Night at Cape Coast Castle,” many white faces filled the crowd. I thought about the Ghanaian’s insult to the Frenchman and what it must have felt like for the numerous white people who were present at this event geared toward Africans and members of the African Diaspora. Instead of guessing at their thoughts, I began to ask questions...
...might have left with a misconstrued perception of slavery and Africa. I’m happy however, that many of the white people I met left not feeling blame, but feeling the same ownership I have. Ownership of the fact that historical inequities cannot be separated from present-day circumstances; that all of our histories are intertwined in Ghana—the British, the Ashanti, the Dutch, the Fante; that while they may face some unexpected questions, they will not allow themselves to fall into the exact same vein of ignorance as their inquisitors...
...know that they’re not just saying that this array looks like this much stuff,” Barth said. “They are actually abstracting the number of items present and they are making their computations over numbers rather than over something directly perceptual...
...tells us more about the power of innate intuition in young children,” she said. “They have no training in symbolic education, yet they could make these very accurate estimations based on abstract numerical information rather than just perceptual information present in the stimulus...
Republicans present, including Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, who has served on the committee for 29 years, lauded Roberts’ qualifications and his performance during the hearings...