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Marcus: No, that don't fly Ma.
Erin Gruwell: First of all I'm not anybody's mother.
Andre: No, that's not what it means.
Eva: It's a sign of respect... for you.
All of Ms. Gruwell students show respect her because she was the only person every in there life to support them and show that education is the key to be succeed in life. IN the Yosso text and the freedom writers there where some kind of support that help the children’s out in order to succeed. With anyone support you then you can be successful in live all you need is support, and it prove in both the text and the film that they bet the school system with just some kin of support.

In Yosso text it said that “Experiential knowledge describe “the process whereby knowledge
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The social meaning applied to race find their justification in an ideology of racial superiority and white privilege – an ideology of racism.” This is true because Race based on skin color and even though people where born here in America other races don’t seen them as American they see them as their ethic and culture background. The superiority group is the White people they are who have superiority because they have white privilege over the dominant group in which are the monitories. Meanwhile White privilege people are eliminated from these kinds of experiences, and they will never have a problem with this experience all thanks to one reason and it the color of their skin. The White person will not experience the injustice of minority in America instead they will shared there experiential knowledge to educate a lesson the next generation, they will educate a idea to the people that whose actions attributed the experiences. Moreover, Faber and Sherry in the Yosso text Claim counter stories distort “truth”. Here, critical race critics profess to know the “truth” and ostensibly judge when some one else distorts it. Counter stories as tools that reveal perspectives long silenced. The counter stories are now a representation of events and it meant to interpret the emotional of the experienced. So if someone translate a uniquely way by the readers own experiential knowledge. The ability to appeal response different from the empirical data that extract the hope care for each other. In Yosso text she stated a song by Los Tigres Del Norte, America, which lists all the countries south of the U.S.- Mexico border and asserts with a soft cumbia rhythm that “los Tigres del Norte dicen que soy Latino, no me quieren decir Americano…

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