and when teaching in atlanta, none of the 35 students i had ever heard of kurt cobain and the mostly white team we were playing with thought it was hilarious my eighth graders never heard of kurt cobain. when i explained to my students that for these white kids the reason they thought that was hilarious was the same reason my kids thought would be hilarious for someone not to know master the, everybody knows master p and i would say they don't, decrepit but everybody knows master the of the problem with that disparity is not that it matters that you know who kurt cobain or master key is but we know they will have more power and therefore my kids at the school i was teaching at were going to need to know kurt cobain or the equivalent in order to have the conversations where they would be respected and taken seriously but if we had a truly inclusive democratic conversations and it would be ok and exchange to kurt cobain was the equivalent and kids would have to explain who master he was or the equivalence but when you start saying -- you get teachers to start teaching the list because