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In this lively talk and performance, artist and TED Fellow Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin offers a sneak peek of her forthcoming musical "At Buffalo." Drawing on archival material from the 1901 Pan-American Exhibition, a world's fair held in Buffalo, New York, the show examines conflicting representations of black identity exhibited at the fair — highlighting unsettlingly familiar parallels between American society at the turn of the century and today, and asking: Are we all still part of the show?
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Jhon Flores no
New least interesting ted talk ever
Maybe, but Brittney Cooper and time being a white construct has to be the TED nadir.
They weren’t forced to preform right??? Shut up with this poor me stuff
I didn’t see any self-pity in the video. Just looks like some history buff turned an archive into a musical. I don’t get why people are getting riled up.
do one please explain how’s what I said is racist? I could just as easily say she was being racist towards white people.
John C Ted talks aren’t supposed to be about old timey race baiting musicals.
asking why you are racist… is actually rayciss guy… c’mon its like 2020 nearly… admit your sins
do one what makes me racist? Go ahead I’ll wait
I thought TED was about science and logic. This is just leftist SJW propaganda.
You must not know too much about TED.
@11STARFIRE BERNIE campaigned for Hillary even after she stole it from him. SUPPORT whomever the DNC chooses like Bernie will again.
And for that you will be called racist
@Hayden H
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Can’t wait for the white identity version.
@TvetovNato they don’t have anything to do with identity.
If someone made that, a civil war would start.. they can make a movie called “white men can’t jump” and it’s cool. If they made a movie called “black man can’t swim”…. cancelled!!!!
Do you know the history behind Black ppl not learning how to swim?
Jasmine S yes I do. Did you know that the CDC said that 70% of blacks and 60% of Latino children don’t know how to swim… there hasn’t been a “whites only” swimming pool or beach since the end of the civil rights movement… your rebuttal please
Jasmine S I assume you got triggered and googled it based on your passive aggressive comment lol
Must’ve subscribed to Ted Africa by accident
WOW! Bravo!
lol
how about recovering old and forgotten slave songs to preform and archive them?
So why is this on TED exactly?
I guess this is the entertaiment part of TED (Technology, Entertaimeent and Design)
@Jonathan Devon first we must define ‘entertainment’
@Mike Maloney True
Because you get to do whatever you want when you’re black
@Greatius Iterfector Lol anti racism is pointless stuff? Maybe saying things like that is why the world isnt getting any better.
Maybe you’d like ted talk on stuff like medicine and science advancement, or the spiritual new age stuff of loving yourself? bunch of useless stuff
Watch as we pretend to face the same racism that we imagine our great great great grandparents did…wheee!
Mike Maloney THIS COMMENT YESSSSSS ☝️☝️☝️☝️
Hate to say it but you’re correct.
Can I see this in Mexican?
Thank you for working to bring these stories to the stage and to the forefront. They are important. This is a great way to examine history and apply its lessons to how we can make our present better for all.
You should check out TEDs pro pédôphilé videos, since you love them so much.
Oh look a fat white girl with a black guy fetish.
How new and exciting
@TheSwoleBroscientist dude, that was uncalled for.
Ted talk now is all about tokenism
Only having read the title:
There is nothing like “black identity”. I wish the time comes soon, when we look back on identity politics and ask ourselves “what were we even thinking?” like with wearing bell-bottoms … or actual racism.
Being black, is not the same as “being liberal”. No one can tell what your politics is just by looking at you, but everyone can tell you are black, and there are distinct social experiences, that happen simply because the person is black. The collection of these experiences forms a sort of identity, which is why black people can relate to each other in a way that people of say, caucasian skin, cannot, wherever we are, whatever we are doing, and although we are different, we all have similar experiences, because we are black.
I love musicals and history, and this looks really interesting. My only response to what’s in the comment section is that there are solid points on both sides thus far. Yes of course it’s important to aknowledge our past mistakes like this, but it could’ve also just been for show (considering it was the world’s fair and part of it is meant for entertainment). As well, I agree with the comments about how if you were to make say a musical about the racism shown towards irish immigrants throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, or the life of a white immigrant coming through Ellis Island, or say a white kid trying to play basketball and other kids being jerks to him because of his race, people would be mad. So, while this is an amazing idea for a musical and I support it, I can see how some people are mad. Just my thoughts
It’s not like people are “mad” like they were treated unfairly.
People are annoyed on how unnecessary this video is on TED, where you expect to learn about “technology, education, design” and not about how “woke” the TED staff is. Is there no single place on earth, where identity politics can be left out?
@txcwt that is a conpletely fair statement and I have no argument for that. In my experience with Ted, most of these more moral or “woke” questions and talks have been on Tedx, so your statement makes complete sense
cringefest
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@do one There is only one race and we’re all in it together.
I am regularly amazed by people free of a the cultural chains of the past who then focus radically on past events that are now meaningless in order to project delusional beliefs about things that are not happening or do not matter.
America has gone coo coo and everyone knows. Jesus Christ nothing will ever be the same. People are so goddamn angry.
@First Name Last Name Yes, I am. Though this presentation is merely an indicator of the bigotry that demands expression from the ignorant. On other issues I am seething, and I no longer give a damn if there is a Civil War. I would welcome it. The Left cannot be allowed to ever have power again, cannot be trusted in any political office, and must be devastated until they can no longer sit up, let alone stand.
@Kenneth Slayor Left is best!
Oh great. Historical racism that applies to modern day freedom that everyone in the country shares.
The recollection of history is never for nothing.
Allowing a version of history to domination our thoughts about how we came to the present isn’t always right.
There is of course more than one side to any account ever told by a human.
When I hear students at the school where I work say, “This that or the other thing is so because my ancestors were slaves.” I’ll always ask, “Which ones of your ancestors were slaves?” To this day I’ve of yet not had a student answer with a specific relative in a particular situation. Not surprising is this situation, because most of these students were born 150 years after slavery was abolished. That would make any potential slave relative a great, great, great grandparent. Most people can not readily identify a specific thing in their life that is directly a result of how and what their great, great, great grandparent experienced in life.
I know how my life has been influenced by being the second generation born of Jewish German immigrants to the US. I can see somewhere between zero and nil influence of the great, great grandparents on my grandchildren. I would not however suggest they forget how the Holocaust cause by certain German people ravaged generations. For them however it is more of a general history than something that cause direct manifestations in their own life.
BTW 1/4 of grandparents were black American.