Male Speaker 1: Questions about what part of you.

 
Female Speaker 1:  I've had some questions about abolitionism.
 
Male Speaker 2: Ashton, do you have something?
 
Ashton: Are abolitionist person I'm supposed to [inaudible]
[00:00:07] talk just like that do not do a very swell job. 

Female Speaker 1: So I'd like someone else to expand to the entire class for like
those.

Male Speaker 2: Okay. So this group wants to know more about abolitionism.
Does anyone have anything.

Female Speaker 2: Chase will teach you.

 
Female Speaker 1 Yes, Chase. 

Chase: I can teach you.

Female Speaker 1: Teach.

 
[Crosstalk]
 
Chase: What do you want to know about it?
 
Female Speaker 1: How in everyday we didn't learn anything.
 
Chase: It was the movement to end slavery.

Male Speaker 2: Let's bring the volume down. It shall only be one of us talking,
right? Hey.
 
[Crosstalk]
 
Male Speaker 3: It's that kinda [inaudible] [00:00:34] now it's hearing you.

Chase:  It was the movement to end slavery. It was a social and political
push to eliminate slaves and to amend all racial discrimination and segregation. One of the
main people was Harriet Tubman. She was an American abolitionist. She was born into
slavery and escaped. She made 13 attempts to rescue slaves and rescued about 30 -- 70.
They tried to get immediate emanation of all slaves in 1830. It provoked hostile responses
from north through south with violent mobs and burning of male legs with abolition --
abolitionist literature.
Male Speaker 1: Okay. So I think we got the idea [inaudible] [00:01:15]to end
slavery. 
 
Female Speaker 1:  Thank you so much, Chase.
 
[Crosstalk]

Male Speaker 2: That doesn't mean we start talking. So your group had

something pretty interesting to say about abolitionism in the modern day. What was that?
 
Chase: I did. There's still slavery. So like it didn't eliminate all of it, but it did
eliminate a portion of it. 

Male Speaker 2: Yeah. There's still slavery going in certain countries and even
here in the United States. 

Male Speaker 4: Where at in the US?

Male Speaker 2: So it's not usually like how we pictured it back then, but it's still
happening.

Male Speaker 5: Around the US, where exactly?

 
Male Speaker 3: You guys have some slaves.

Male Speaker 2: Probably I don't know. I mean, it's different places. They have
people working in like factories for no pay. People who aren't allowed sleep, stuff like that.
There's, I think you guys have been [inaudible] [00:01:54] there's in fact slavery.

[Crosstalk]

Female Speaker 1: The worst place is school. We're not to go to ahead to go to

school.
 
Female Speaker 2:  Same here.

Male Speaker 2: Okay. So who else has something to say about this
discussion? 

[Crosstalk]

Male Speaker 2: Hey. I said I'm calling you?

Female Speaker 1: Are we still talking about abolitionism?

Male Speaker 2: Not necessarily. We can talk about something else if you want.

Female Speaker 1: Okay.

Male Speaker 2: What did your group discuss?

Female Speaker 1: Well, we discussed all of the topics.

Female Speaker 2: Really?

Male Speaker 6: I hope so.

 
[Crosstalk]

Male Speaker 5: What is the trendiest one?

 
Ashton: I would say abolition.
 
Male Speaker 3: Yeah. We want to know about that.
 
Male Speaker 5: Yeah.
 
Female Speaker 1: Probably, the... I don't know. So they were all actors.
 
Male Speaker 1: They wanted [inaudible] [00:02:26].
 
Male Speaker 2: Give us one.
 
Female Speaker 2: Well, Alex had the slave or the education and prison reform.
And that was interesting because they need to have better... Yeah. Children need to be able
to learn.

Male Speaker 2:  Children need to be able to learn. So you think the education
needs to be reformed today too? Do we need another reform? 
 
Male Speaker 1: Yeah.
 
Female Speaker 2: Yes.
 
Male Speaker 3: No.
 
Chase: No.
 
Male Speaker 2: No? Do you think education is fine? Do you guys don't think
your education is fine?

Female Speaker 2: Yeah.

[Crosstalk]
 
Male Speaker 3: No. 
 
Female Speaker 2: Education extension.
 
[Crosstalk]
 
Female Speaker 2: Yeah. I think education should be free. 

Female Speaker 3: Yeah.

Female Speaker 2: Slavery is bad.

 
Female Speaker 4: Yeah. We're in a public school, it is free.

Chase:  I'll speak about Connor.

Male Speaker 2: Actually, Connor, you guys talk about it, right?

Female Speaker 3; Yeah.

 
Male Speaker 2: Yeah?

Chase:  Yeah.
 
Female Speaker 2: Some of it is crazy. 

Male Speaker 2: Do you wanna share with the whole class, whatever it is you're
talking about that? I'm sure is completely relevant to the situation.

Female Speaker 2: I said that we already have enough time in school and he said
we don't.

Female Speaker 1: Well, it's a little rivalry going on here. 

 
Female Speaker 2: What?
 
[Crosstalk]
 
Male Speaker 2: You thought about school?
 
Female Speaker 2: Well, how? I think I'm free because, by the time, everyone's life
is all over, there's still death [inaudible] [00:03:31]

Female Speaker 3: What?

 
Female Speaker 1: Everyone?

Female Speaker 3: Why make Connor so upset? He doesn't even know get paid
off anything. 
 
Male Speaker 2: So yeah, back during the 1800s when the first education
reformation came out, only the rich kids were the ones who were able to go to school and
all the poor kids had to go off to the factories. So if, like she said, you still can't afford it, isn't
it kind of like the same thing, you know? So there's some parallels to be made there. So,
Emily, you had something to say, right?

Emily: This topic or my other topic?

Male Speaker 2: Your other topic. Go ahead.

Emily: Our group talked most about [inaudible] [00:04:08],

so [inaudible] 
[00:04:10] about hers.
 
Female Speaker 3: I would like to have phone a friend. This is about why they're
banning alcohol or not. 
 
Emily: Yeah.

Male Speaker 2:  So the Temperance thing then?

 
Emily: The Temperance Movement.

Female Speaker 3:  Yeah. And we --

 
Male Speaker 2: What about the Temperance Movement?
 
Female Speaker 3: We don't think it should have been done.

Male Speaker 2: No?

 
Emily: Yeah. We think that --

Male Speaker 3: I still study [inaudible] [00:04:31].

Female Speaker 4: Why?

 
Male Speaker 2: Yes.

Male Speaker 1: So you guys do not believe that there should be a ban on
alcohol?
 
Female Speaker 1: No. 
 
Male Speaker 1: So you think that right now you should be able to drink?
 
Female Speaker 1: No, but we're saying --
 
Female Speaker 2: No. But we're saying that --
 
[Crosstalk]
 
Male Speaker 2: Hey, hey, hey. Let's keep it one at a time. Do you have
question?

Female Speaker 2: Why do you guys care if there's a ban on alcohol? 

Female Speaker 3: Because when I get older, I don't want it banned, but before it's
--
 
[Crosstalk]
 
Female Speaker 2: Why can't we ban it right now?
 
Female Speaker 1: But that's the law. Right now, you have to drink at a certain
age. 
 
Female Speaker 3: Yes. But when you do turn --
 
Female Speaker 4: You stopped Caleb.
 
Female Speaker 3 :... old enough. When you do --

Female Speaker 1: But when you do turn old enough, you can drink alcohol, but...

Female Speaker 3:  Yeah. But in your 21st birthday, you wanna go to Vegas and --
 
Chase:  From 18.
 
[Crosstalk]
 
Male Speaker 2: So you're supposed to go to Las Vegas --
 
[Crosstalk]

Male Speaker 2:  Here's a question I have in the vein of that. Do you think it
should be the government's job to protect you from yourself?
 
Female Speaker 2: Yes.
 
Female Speaker 3: No.
 
Male Speaker 3: No
 
Male Speaker 4: No.
 
Female Speaker 3: That's our job.
 
Male Speaker 1: That's your job.

Female Speaker 3: That's our job to make ourselves --

 
[Crosstalk]

Female Speaker 4: But that's why the [inaudible] [00:05:22] people still don't protect
themselves. 

Female Speaker 3: Well, that's their problem. 

Female Speaker 5: That's their problem. 

 
Female Speaker 1: Exactly. That's why there should be a ban on alcohol.
 
Female Speaker 3: No, it shouldn't.
 
Chase:  Right. Right. Right.

[Crosstalk]
 
Male Speaker 2: Okay, okay. Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Female Speaker 1: Hey. Hey. 

Male Speaker 2: We've all got different...  let's stay respectful. Okay. Did you
have something about this topic or the next one?
 
Chase:  Yeah, about this topic.
 
Male Speaker 2: About this topic? Go ahead.
 
Chase:  When you ban alcohol, they're not protecting you, they're
protecting others. 

Male Speaker 2: They're protecting others. It's like drunk driving.

 
Female Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. There's that.
 
Male Speaker 2: During the Temperance Movement where --
 
Female Speaker 3: But what if you're the person that is drunk driving?
 
Male Speaker 2: During the Temperance Movement, do you think they were
trying to protect you or others? 
 
[Crosstalk]

Male Speaker 6: Others.

 
Chase:  Normally everyone.
 
Male Speaker 6: Everyone?

Male Speaker 2: Everyone?

Male Speaker 6: No.

Male Speaker 2: Yeah?

 
Emily: The existing things, self-driving cars. 

Female Speaker 6: Yeah. I'm ready to testify.

 
Male Speaker 6: Yeah, but you know --

Female Speaker 1: Okay.

[Crosstalk]

Female Speaker 6: Yeah, but everyone has self-driving cars. 

Emily: Driving while drunk. Once you're driving --

[Crosstalk]
 
Male Speaker 2: Okay. All right. We all got different ideas, and that's good, and
that's great.  Does anyone else have any --
 
[Crosstalk]
 
Male Speaker 2: Hey. Does anybody else have a different topic different from
what we have?

Female Speaker 1: I think Macy wanted to share something about utopian

communities and transcendentalism.
 
Male Speaker 2: [Inaudible] [00:06:24] go and tell people to get up. Does
anybody have anything else to say?
 
Macy: Well, vaguely. The utopian people believe that the world becomes perfect. 
 
Emily: Nobody is perfect. Well, they believe it's self.
 
[Crosstalk]
 
Emily: They believe things to be self, like you should do it yourself,
not...
 
Male Speaker 2: Okay. So here's a question. Do you guys think we're all too
reliant on each other nowadays? 
 
Female Speaker 2: Yes.

Female Speaker 3: Yes

Male Speaker 3: No.

Male Speaker 4: No.

 
Male Speaker 2: Should we be more like --
 
Female Speaker 7: I want to say more about what I do know about race.

Female Speaker 4: Way back?

 
Female Speaker 1:  I do.

Male Speaker 2: Should we be more like the Utopianist and the

transcendentalism who said that we should take care of ourselves properly?
 
[Crosstalk]

Female Speaker 7:  I can't say no.

 
Female Speaker 3: Yes and no.

Female Speaker 2: I have my hand up.

 
Male Speaker 2: What do you think?
 
Female Speaker 3: No. I feel like you can't do everything yourself. Like I'm not
going to go and make my own clothes.
 
[Crosstalk]
 
Male Speaker 2: Do you have something else to add for anybody else or not?

[Crosstalk]

Female Speaker 1: Stop talking.

 
Male Speaker 1: Why are we chattering if we're not called then? 
 
Female Speaker 2: What we're trying to say [inaudible] [00:07:23].

Emily: So if you say we're being reliant, so say there's a 2-year-old
child, how are they supposed to just know how to make their food? They're not going to
cook.

[Crosstalk]
 
Emily: So they rely on their parents to help make them food.

Female Speaker 3: I have a question. You have to be reliant.

[Crosstalk]

Female Speaker 5: What exactly [inaudible] 

[00:07:40] was that? 

Female Speaker 3: Peopleism.

Male Speaker 2: Okay. 

 
Female Speaker 3: You said we rely too much on people, but who?
 
[Crosstalk]

Chase:  Yeah. You do. You do.

[Crosstalk]
 
Female Speaker 2: They're gonna have to rely on their mothers to support them.
 
Female Speaker 3: Exactly.

Chase:  But you can't --

 
[Crosstalk]
 
Male Speaker 2: Okay. Okay. Okay.
 
[Crosstalk]

Female Speaker 5: I rely on the school for the... like I rely on the school to educate
me.

Female Speaker 2: There are many. I didn't have a mother and –

[Crosstalk]

Female Speaker 5: People are like they...

 
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