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A clip from Baratunde Thurston's TED Talk "How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time" from TED2019
Baratunde Thurston explores the phenomenon of white Americans calling the police on Black Americans who have committed the crimes of … eating, walking or generally "living while Black." In this profound, thought-provoking and often hilarious talk, he reveals the power of language to change stories of trauma into stories of healing — while challenging us all to level up.
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They know what they are doing when they call the police for simple things….stop acting dumb.
That’s the point the speaker is making
Watch Gothix.
Eric July is another awesome dude.
Antonio Gramsci would be proud…
The ratio gives me some hope…
Honestly this is a really good take. One of the most damaging modern concepts that people have been tricked into believing is that of the hegemony.
For those who believe in it, please take a moment to remember it’s a concept that is unfalsifiable. Much like a belief in a god, a ‘hegemonic force’ is defined as being all-encompassing and resisting detection. Absence of evidence for it’s existence is then interpreted as evidence of it’s existence. Would you believe me if I tried to sell you an invisible, intangible, unusable car?
Wait, this is from TED2019…Why is it being shared now?
@Lane Atkinson I know. Do you ever heard about rhetorical questions? You just don’t get it, right?
@Netter Junge “Do you ever heard” Nice grammar
@Netter Junge I don’t think you know what a rhetorical question is…
This channel constantly reuploads many videos. Somehow all the snowflakes get triggered by videos like this and only ask why this video is being reuploaded by conveniently ignoring all the other reuploads which have nothing to do with race or gender and whatever else you crybabies get so easily riled up about.
@Lane Atkinson I’m german. How many languages can you speak? By the way, thats not an argument.
@Mussi93 Snowflakes? Really? Watch the video again. Thats called a snowflake. A pathetic whiner. When it comes to this specific topic, TED has only cringe content like this, but for sure, no agenda, right? Maybe Donald is focussing on that specific topic. I don’t watch every single video from TED myself, especially nowadays. TED isn’t interesting anymore, too much bias, too much agenda. But when it comes to this divisive and hateful content i will not be quiet!
If you’re watching this now and thinking maybe he is right than Google these names, Justine Damond, Dillon Taylor, Tony Timpa. Dude’s selling wolf tickets.
Came to see if the comments got turned off. So far so good — but I don’t believe we will make it.
You can’t even comment properly. I said nothing the FBI stats don’t corroborate, yet I get shadow banned. Anyway the likes ratio speaks for itself. We, the silent majority are tiring of this bs.
dislikes getting removed. you are a russian bot ofc
@DepresssedOne if the like ratio was a current liabilities ratio TED would be out of business.
Everyone should always have their vehicles road legal. Everyone should always be ready for a traffic stop in the way described.
Lmao, Ted never change.
“I haven’t watched Ted in a while, I wonder if any good stuff has been posted recently”
“…oh”
what’s wrong with it?
Really?? Really?? Wow
I’m sorry that you got pulled over for driving a car that is not street legal
But guys it isn’t criminal if nobody knows and if someone finds out clearly its their fault and everyone else’s.
To those of us who are building our lives from zero, with no backups, no inheritance, no connections, Just us and our plans. May the Almighty God bless you financially and Give you the strength to fight through all obstacles that comes your way
Thank you
Thanks for introducing me to Mrs Rose Robert
Mrs Rose Robert has changed my financial status for the best. All thanks to my aunt who introduced her to me.
Her success stories is everywhere
Who’s this professional everyone is talking about I always see her post on top comment on every YouTube video I watch………
I think I’m interested how can I get in touch with Mrs Rose Robert………..
We are a human doesn’t matter what is the skin colour ,all of us here to give a message to the world.