Writing Professor: We All Deserve to Be Heard
May 4, 2015
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In a piece in Baltimore Fishbowl, Marion Winik, assistant professor in the University of Baltimore's Klein Family School of Communications Design, explores the importance of storytelling as a way to deal with an oppressive situation—the kind of situation that resulted in last week's civil unrest in Baltimore.
"Storytelling is as important a part of the response to oppression as protest. It's the part that defines the perception of the situation, helping people understand, even people who seem to have closed their minds and hearts," Winik writes. "Every one of those kids who was throwing rocks at the Mondawmin Mall intifada the other day has stories to tell, has reasons why they are so alienated. If they could tell them, if they could be heard, they would be much less likely to resort to violence."
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