00:00A, B, C, D, E, F, G.
00:09My dad wanted to add on to our house.
00:12My father was not an educated person.
00:16He had a third grade education.
00:18He wanted a bank loan.
00:20And so he had me read that to him.
00:30There is applying for a loan.
00:33Applying to take courses.
00:36Getting your driver's license.
00:38But even beyond that, there's so many things that, you know,
00:42how do I then apply for a job?
00:43Then what's the job application look like?
00:46An employee manual.
00:49Forget doing my taxes.
00:52There's words on there that, you know, even with a degree,
00:54be like, what in the world does this mean?
00:58L-N-O-N-N-O-P.
01:05Earlier in my career, I did a lot of case management
01:07where I would help people to find employment.
01:11Just assume, like universal precautions, right?
01:14Just assume that the person doesn't know how to read
01:16because it is so common, unfortunately.
01:21Q-R-S.
01:25Statistics, they're startling.
01:30And so I think why there's not a national uproar around literacy
01:36has a lot to do with who is at the bottom right now.
01:40D-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U
01:47-U-U-U-U-U.
01:47Okay, of course the country can benefit when we have a more illiterate population,
01:53but let's be real.
01:55They benefit by having us not to be a illiterate population.
02:01You know, we need to have a thorough exploration of our history and truth-telling of our history
02:12in order for us to create any kind of resolutions.
02:17Only by being able to understand what people were thinking and feeling in previous years
02:25are we able to kind of understand and synthesize that into how things are today.
02:32And then we become aware of it and then it becomes a decision for ourselves how we're going to choose
02:39to, you know, be a part of that.
02:43Y-N-C
02:54Y-N-C
