What interests me about the unanimous decision by U.S. Soccer's board of directors is that it verbalized a message that the soccer establishment has been sending to black Americans for decades: This sport is not for you.
I think most people do, but expressing it, verbalizing it, isn't something we practice.
"This is the first time I'm expressing it, verbalizing it, I'd never really made the connection before but yes, everything that's happened has pretty much been from people finding me through Twitter.
The second I heard it verbalized by Marc Andreessen -- founder of Netscape, co-founder of Ning (platform for social networking) and an angel investor in EQAL -- I realized why user-generated content works on YouTube.
When the hashtag first burst onto the blogosphere, it verbalized a rage against an American policing system that treated African Americans as unimportant trash, as dispensable as toilet tissue.
But this would not count as an awareness unless combined with the further ability to sort it out or verbalize it; consciousness cannot reveal an object to us unless we discriminate it, and the process of discrimination requires verbalization.
It is important to note that the text converted into speech is designed to start every time the terminal is shaken, which means that the application does not remember where it stopped verbalizing previously.
"I feel like it sounds hokey to verbalize it," Lum says, "but I'm really interested in these kind of Utopian ideas of infinite possibilities that we can shape our own realities with very simple gestures and very simple materials: even taking found things from the trash, we can make our own spaces and a way of living through junk.
Regardless of whether or not she verbalized it, Kyle knew it was a yes and with the help of family and friends, one month later they were married.
"I think a team going through a season after a championship, even though you can verbalize it and give examples and talk about it historically what it was like, it's probably a little bit more profound when you actually experience it," Belichick said at the time.
