Reclaiming Rural
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Reclaiming Rural

Talking Right About Children

Seneca Rogers wants to remind us that kids aren’t politics, they are kids.

Seneca this past spring in downtown Burlington. Photo by author.

He was told he couldn’t learn.

There wasn’t a lot of reason given to Seneca Rogers’ parents about why his teachers thought he wouldn’t be able to learn; it’s just what they were told. “I guess they based it off that I was a talkative kid– and I did talk. A lot!” But…

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Reclaiming Rural is a project of Down Home North Carolina. We are reclaiming what it means to live in and be from the rural South.

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Gwen Frisbie-Fulton

Mother. Southerner. Storyteller. Bread and Roses. #race #class #poverty #gender #equity #children #egalitarianorganizing #bottomupstorytelling *views my own*