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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Marcy Forti — Union College student on diversity and acceptance
Description: Marcy Forti, in her 2018 Berne-Knox-Westerlo valedictory address, used a phrase from Southern African philosophy, Ubuntu, often translated as “I am because we are,” which she felt spoke to the way she was raised in the close-knit, rural Hilltown community. The BKW superintendent, Timothy Mundell, has modified the phrase to “They are because we are” to use as the school district’s motto. “I was really touched that my little 18-year-old musings had an impact,” says Forti in this week’s podcast. She wishes, as well, that students would learn about the South African culture that produced that philosophy. Forti is now a junior at...