Watch the video below with youth, then use the questions below to have a mentoring conversation with them.
- What are the stereotypes of the "average Black girl?"
- Who is the real average Black girl according to the poet?
- The poet says that she is aspiring to be like the real average Black girl (like Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks, etc.). Who are you aspiring to be like?
- What kind of stereotypes and labels other people are trying to place on you? Why?
- How will you prove them wrong?
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