"Sing With Me" shows how Carlisle Jacobson, a recent college
graduate beginning a teaching career in the Washington, D.C., area
in 1998, realizes he's learning as much as he is teaching. Carlisle
brings to his work a belief that every student must, without a
doubt have opportunities to achieve anything they imagine, but
before long he's learning, through personal experiences, that many
young people don't have the advantages he enjoyed as a child of
privileged and wealthy society in the horse country of Virginia,
only a day-trip away from Washington but worlds away from its
streets plagued by crime and nearly cut off from hope. And while
Carlisle has enjoyed hunting since he was young, he discovers
firearms are used frequently in D.C. for hunting down other people,
with innocent bystanders shot as frequently as the hunters'
intended targets. His most frequent teacher in learning that he has
a lot to learn is Lucia Sanspeur, a woman unlike any he's known and
anyone he ever expected to meet. Lucia doesn't mince words and
makes clear her ideas, every one of which he hangs on in rapt
attention. Her voice captivates Carlisle from their first
encounter, and almost as quickly her ideas propel him toward
understanding that, even as he professes concern and empathy for
his students and for her, he looks at the world and other people
through a sense of wealth and privilege. The primary tenet of
Carlisle's perspective, which he acknowledges but tenaciously
wrestles to accept, is that as a white man he should exert control
over and receive respect from all other people, particularly blacks
and other minorities. Lucia, as a black woman, makes vividly clear
the problems with his perception. Carlisle's rapid education in
learning about life moves into advanced studies and his stumbling
journey toward accepting the basic prejudices in his regard for
other people nearly tumbles to a complete stop when he experiences
first-hand the violence and crime that victimize many people in the
area daily.
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