Season 2 | Ep 18 | The Knee-High Man wants to get Sizeable
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The Knee-High man took me back to school when I first heard the word Pygmy. I am not sure if I heard it in a good way, or did someone use it as an insult. You see, I didn\'t grow up beyond 5 feet. But that didn\'t stop me from winning a beauty pageant at 18! This story from the African-American tradition of stories has travelled with the people across the seas. I can see this story as a striving for basic human dignity, a stature that gives strength, leadership, dominance and perhaps respect.
It\\u2019s a story about needs, wants and all that we want to be without knowing why!
Listen to this one, told with a little tact and sensitivity, this one can open up conversations that are difficult to have. Listen to it & tell me what do you think!
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Story Source | African American Folktales - Selected & Edited by Roger D. Abrahams
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