Patricia Leary Letter Exchange Summary

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In the letter exchange by Patricia Leary, there is a part where the theme is meaning and interpretation. She describes an example about the confederate flag and how it is used as a symbol of white supremacy. There can be a different opinion about what it actually means. “Something can even carry a meaning that has a larger life of its own, regardless of the meaning ascribed to it by a particular person. For example, the flag of the Confederacy carries the meaning of white supremacy, even if a particular person thinks it only means “tradition.”” The next paragraph she compares it to the Black Lives Matter movement and states, “ Unless you speak for the Black Lives Matter movement you have no authority to say what those words mean to the people

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