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A more equal world starts with you. Citing a formative moment from her own life, equity advocate Nita Mosby Tyler highlights why showing up and fighting for others who face injustices beyond your own lived experience leads to a fairer, more just future for all.
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Remy Lebeau
August 12, 2020 at 9:39 pm
You can keep your communist and identity oppression Olympics “utopia” world. In fact you can shove it. You know nothing of justice and the impossible task of making peace in the world.
Kex
August 12, 2020 at 9:58 pm
A wonderful talk from a wonderful woman.
Jeff Censored!
August 12, 2020 at 9:59 pm
TED = NWO!
Honest Person
August 12, 2020 at 10:17 pm
Just look at Chris Anderson’s obsequious interview with the dupers delight “vaccine” man.
Hayden H
August 12, 2020 at 11:58 pm
Only inner city masses are that pliable.
J P
August 12, 2020 at 10:04 pm
Forced “diversity” IS terrorism against White people in our own White created nation(s).
Matt C
August 13, 2020 at 12:04 am
If you honestly believe that minorities obtaining equal status to you is terrorism, then maybe you would be more comfortable in 1930s Berlin.
Tom Warlitner
August 12, 2020 at 10:23 pm
I got news for this lady. We are all tired. I will never know what her message is because I bailed at 00:47. 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ojaededajuice
August 12, 2020 at 11:44 pm
Tom Warlitner lol ya probably should have watched the video
Matt C
August 13, 2020 at 12:02 am
It’s truly sad that you formed an opinion on a 10-minute video after 47 seconds of listening. Forming a strong opinion based solely on speculation is a symptom of the growing pandemic of willful ignorance in this country.
Tom Warlitner
August 13, 2020 at 1:00 am
@DeathnoteBB You just confirmed everything I predicted. I’m tired of the this group vs that bs. Tired of hearing about how I have it so much better and how my problems will never compare to “theirs”. Tired of how it’s perpetually my duty to make the approved choices regarding the “victims”. Everyone feels “marginalized” by something. It’s sad the amount of selfish, imaginative people who think it’s all about them. Helping others or “live and let live” is not enough. The “marginalized” need me to conform that this is their world too by limiting my place in it. I wonder how many will actually read and consider my comment? How many will throw the same tired responses? Because they see this as their world and can’t understand why so many are oppressing them by living in it and not complying with their wishes? Sorry, you caught me on a bad day.
Tom Warlitner
August 13, 2020 at 1:02 am
@ojaededajuice What did I miss? I’m sure it was yet another “education” on how I can be better. We get it. I’ll tell you what. I’ll go back and watch it.
Tom Warlitner
August 13, 2020 at 1:11 am
@Matt C Not really. My opinion comes from seeing the same video 100 times and not thinking 101 will finally make me realize how the world’s full of better people than me and how I should change my selfish ways to accommodate them. But I’m about to watch it so I’ll get back to you.
Fabio Fernandes
August 12, 2020 at 10:28 pm
Just from the thumbnail i can tell this gonna be epic sjw bs… I don’t even need to watch
Matt C
August 12, 2020 at 11:57 pm
That’s the problem in our society today. “I think I know what this is going to be, so I don’t need to hear them.” It’s really sad that our culture is validating willful ignorance.
Esther B.
August 12, 2020 at 10:29 pm
So inspiring.
Stellar Archive Fan
August 12, 2020 at 10:46 pm
Lol a more just world would decimate people and let wild plants and animals consume their corpses.
People are the most murderous race on the planet, the most destructive to plantlife, the most selfish thing on the planet with resources, and is slowly starving the wilderness. You really don’t want TRUE justice 😂
DeathnoteBB
August 12, 2020 at 11:30 pm
Chill
علي عماد ميران سلمان
August 12, 2020 at 10:47 pm
Arabic translation ?!! ):
Darwin
August 12, 2020 at 10:48 pm
👏👏👏
Little Sweep
August 12, 2020 at 11:09 pm
Who else is watching this in 2020??
Lucas Gabriel
August 12, 2020 at 11:10 pm
that’s it if we want justice we all need to speak up and call out the little injustices day to day
Hayden H
August 12, 2020 at 11:57 pm
We need more Karens willing to speak out.
Matt C
August 13, 2020 at 12:14 am
I speak up for groups I’m not a part of, and that seems to be her takeaway message. I fully support it and wish more people would do it.
Billy Goof
August 12, 2020 at 11:41 pm
Woke nonsense.
Wolfman Roy
August 12, 2020 at 11:46 pm
Wake up, to many things, inactions, and actions here never make any logical sence. The church today is a Pharisitical parasite that waste resources by leasing buildings, houses, and suites that sit empty 70% of a month while homeless die from extremities in the weather. Humans are the worst kinds of mammals and animals because we waste more than we need and this extends all the way from the smallest of valuable commodities all the way up to our own equals. These Antichrist Churches should be all inclusive, explaining how everything here fits together as a whole reasonable, scientific, logical system that was created and exists because of, and through the almost diabolical mad scientist type workings of this, HE-MAN/IT/SHE-RA, Eternally lit lightning Sun God/Goddess/Godless bringer of Life and Death. I say, “Godless,” because this God has no God that He-She looks up towards as a role model and also be genderless or full of genders perfectly, so the term Godmore might also work I suppose. My point is that just as in, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, or even a rubics cube, so to must you flip this world over to recieve more clarity, enlightenment, They Liiiiiive!! sunglasses, Buried Treasures, etc.
Hayden H
August 13, 2020 at 12:00 am
Except when it comes to investing in homes. No one one wants to buy or sell in certain neighborhoods.
Rebecca Leeman
August 13, 2020 at 12:08 am
By “no one” you mean you and your white buddies. Just speak straight.
Dont be a coward.
CHARISMA SUPERPOWERS
August 13, 2020 at 12:05 am
Communicate. Even when it’s uncomfortable or uneasy. One of the best ways to heal, is simply getting everything out.
Matt C
August 13, 2020 at 12:12 am
Also, educating ourselves about what others are going through, rather than sitting and waiting to be educated, is important. 🙂
Zenn Exile
August 13, 2020 at 12:07 am
Justice is not what the world needs. The world needs freedom, empowerment, and a complete and permanent moratorium on the monopolization of opportunity. We could end all poverty and empower every child born, on every corner of this rock, with access to the breadth of human knowledge in less than 5 years. But are we gonna?
Matt C
August 13, 2020 at 12:12 am
The problem is reaching people with education from valid sources. We are currently dealing with two pandemics in this country: COVID and anti-intellectualism, where many people approach issues with a, “My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge” mentality.
Joshua Harper
August 13, 2020 at 12:10 am
While I don’t support her actual notions, I absolutely stand behind her description of how to execute meaningful change in the world. She understands that the game MUST BE PLAYED or no change will ever occur. You either are experienced enough in life to understand the game and play it well or you’re a bumbling child whining about how the game is unfair. Sadly, modern efforts resemble a “divide and conquer” mentality and will continue to fail on the national scale.
ST7A Bad Karma
August 13, 2020 at 12:17 am
We can start by ending slavery and illicit slave trades in Africa and Asia.
daxter956
August 13, 2020 at 12:30 am
Damn, the bigot intellectuals on TED gotta be real salty to dislike THIS video…
J. M.
August 13, 2020 at 12:53 am
If you quit making up bs about racism existing it wont anymore
Buildings1772
August 13, 2020 at 12:59 am
remarkable how few people here in the comments haven’t watched the video.
raharu000
August 13, 2020 at 12:59 am
“Why don’t men lead the charge for pay equity for women?”
Just because there is an inequality does not necessarily mean there is unjust discrimination. Sorry, the gender pay gap has not been proven to be due to sexism. Men work longer hours, do more dangerous jobs, and are more aggressive negotiators for salary. Obviously there is some level of sexism, but it isn’t clear at all to what degree. To just make a blanket statement implying people deserve pay equity just because they’re women isn’t very smart.
Elijah
August 13, 2020 at 1:15 am
YASSSS. PREACH.
Fubbster
August 13, 2020 at 1:27 am
I was half on board when she started talking about how she has to fight for rights like she had to in the civil rights movement, today. And then she mentioned that there was a pay inequality between men and women. Then she completely lost me
Айдай Бекайдар
August 13, 2020 at 4:17 am
thank you so much ✨❤️❤️❤️
Easy English
August 13, 2020 at 4:40 am
Very nice
S M
August 13, 2020 at 5:20 am
Are you a good person? Take this test!
Hans Franz
August 13, 2020 at 5:24 am
231 Trump fans don’t like that truth.
The power of Books
August 13, 2020 at 5:49 am
I really want justice to triumph everywhere but today it fades more and more into our daily lives
Shada
August 13, 2020 at 6:12 am
the comment about JFK being an “unlikely ally” towards the civil rights movement is more than a little concerning honestly. He wasn’t, he did it because he realized the country would collapse otherwise.
ExiledExia
August 13, 2020 at 6:28 am
First of all: YouTube, kill yourself for adding so much adds through a video.
Second: this is such an inspiring and beautiful video!
Aditya Bagdi
August 13, 2020 at 7:26 am
Someday…
Aldo
August 13, 2020 at 7:48 am
We can start by making sure that women aren’t treated like it’s 1153 AD in the middle-east
aristochat3
August 13, 2020 at 8:01 am
Why didn’t she just set up a ballerina school, Instead of waiting for white people to deliver everything? The ally is just a patronizing racist.
Rae Fishman
August 13, 2020 at 8:34 am
Live love and courage. Inspire
Malcolm Jones
August 13, 2020 at 9:28 am
TED = WOKE = Identity politics.
BLM is by definition racism.
All lives matter
Sait
August 13, 2020 at 9:31 am
Why are there no Turkish subtitles?
Sait
August 13, 2020 at 9:31 am
?
Il Bugiardo dell'Umbria
August 13, 2020 at 12:37 pm
@Sait nobody cares
Isa XiB
August 13, 2020 at 10:16 am
…or help the natives of historic Palestine against the racist pseudoisraelite invasion of their homeland.
Don’t buy or cooperate with the racist neoisraelites.
asianhippy
August 13, 2020 at 10:34 am
How lazy! Uploading old TedX talks to Ted Talks. TedX is garbage and you are bringing to Ted Talks? Sad, silly people.
Rafael Lopes
August 13, 2020 at 2:22 pm
TedX might be garbage but the lady is still right
asianhippy
August 13, 2020 at 2:32 pm
@Rafael Lopes She wants others to be shields for her. I don’t need anyone to be a shield for me. She is just playing the victim card.
Lisa Love Ministries
August 13, 2020 at 11:12 am
Seek God daily.💕
Proverbs 3:5-6
MIS
August 13, 2020 at 11:17 am
Why…is he lost ?
Thomas Richardson
August 13, 2020 at 11:47 am
The fact that each of her points got such applause makes it clear that this talk was given to the complete wrong crowd. She makes a great point about the power of “unlikely allies”, but it sounds like the whole audience are “likely allies”
This is just preaching to the choir
Joshua Harper
August 13, 2020 at 11:57 am
Look up how expensive being an audience member is and it’ll become clear why that is the case.
Matt C
August 13, 2020 at 5:17 pm
The trouble is that the people this needs to reach don’t have any interest in helping anyone but themselves.
Shaun Riley
August 14, 2020 at 4:06 am
That’s The Progressive Way…. Alienate everyone and destroy everything
FBeckenbauer4
August 14, 2020 at 10:24 am
@Matt C Nobody owes anyone any help. The people that need to be preached to are the ones doing the wrong thing, the criminals in communities where snitching is not socially acceptable. Go there, change their perspective on life, then they won’t be a burden on their community and the country and everyone can benefit. Instead of preaching about these imagined mass racists that are everywhere apparently.
Il Bugiardo dell'Umbria
August 13, 2020 at 12:46 pm
More leftist propaganda from TED, you know, the usual
Matt C
August 13, 2020 at 5:19 pm
Has it ever occurred to you WHY most intellectuals who are educated, credentialed, and well-traveled are liberal? It’s because it’s nearly impossible to be conservative – socially, at least – when you have seen the world from a broader perspective.
larhule
August 13, 2020 at 4:02 pm
White people, especially poor whites, are tired of hearing about their white privilege from wealthy blacks. Be an ally and stand against the systemic oppression whites and Asians endure in the form of Affirmative Action.
Jarah Polk
August 13, 2020 at 4:25 pm
Honestly just a beautiful video
Melwinkh Prergado
August 13, 2020 at 4:25 pm
Honestly just a beautiful video
William Moore
August 13, 2020 at 4:26 pm
What about those of us who don’t want your marxist idea of a “just” world? What happens if we disagree, and think that YOU are the problem instead? Gonna round me up and take me to a “re-education camp”?
Seeking Happy
August 13, 2020 at 5:15 pm
❤❤❤❤❤
Masaidio Kalenga
August 13, 2020 at 7:16 pm
We can start by refusing to buy smartphones and computers to end the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo! Hmmmmm
Yokai369
August 14, 2020 at 6:01 am
Non Sequitar Fallacy – Please grow a brain cell before you open your mouth again.
Jack Liu
August 13, 2020 at 11:04 pm
I’m sorry for your childhood experience, you’re right that they don’t know how excellent you are.
I had a bad experience facing injustice, only God who is always there for me.
Adele D
August 14, 2020 at 12:56 am
Why is there an A article? “A more”
Kostyik
August 14, 2020 at 1:23 am
wouldn’t it become ”More just worlds”?
I feel like it would change the meaning of the sentence.
Adele D
August 14, 2020 at 3:35 am
Kostyik thanks, I re-read it, you’re right
Naiem Chan
August 14, 2020 at 5:38 am
Wut
FUCK TheYoungTurks
August 14, 2020 at 2:24 am
I remember when ted talks used to be good.
Alaina Allen
August 14, 2020 at 3:17 pm
I remember when crusty old mansplaining trolls weren’t poisoning comment threads
Arch S
August 14, 2020 at 1:30 pm
The speaker calls for ‘allies’, but being an ‘ally’ will never be enough for the ‘equity and justice’ crowd. They throw about terms like ‘justice’ and ‘equity’, which have far different meanings to them, and they try to shame people into compliance with the threat of being labeled as a ‘bigot’.
I am all for treating people with respect, and making sure that everyone has access to the same quality of healthcare, education, safety and employment. What I am not for being compelled, shamed or threatened into acting or behaving a certain way.
Alaina Allen
August 14, 2020 at 2:12 pm
Amen, sister
PB Musafir
August 14, 2020 at 3:04 pm
Nice
Lorenzo Blum
August 14, 2020 at 9:40 pm
What is the carbon footprint of the military industrial complex?
James Aseltine
August 15, 2020 at 1:26 am
Sometimes da more you force it da more it goes the other way ie the law of detachment
Sazzad Hossain
August 15, 2020 at 8:15 am
Amen….Sister
Devin Heaps
August 15, 2020 at 6:48 pm
Stop hating white people and we might reconsider your perverted definition of justice.
Bread Fan
August 15, 2020 at 6:52 pm
OK, how can I put this simply…
To collectively label white people as unlikely allies in the fight to eliminate racism is racist.
To collectively label heterosexual people as unlikely allies in the fight for LGBTQ rights is bigoted.
ST7A Bad Karma
August 16, 2020 at 2:22 pm
Bread Fan they’re so woke they do not realize they’ve become the very evil they so despise. It’s amusing watching them performing mental gymnastics to justify their racist and bigoted world view, all the while spouting racist and bigoted ideologies 😂 in their banal crusade against “toxic male whiteness” .
Arhan Solo
August 16, 2020 at 6:13 pm
Is that what you took from this presentation? I think she just ask to speak up if you see something that is just not right. The more people do it the bigger change can be. But even small actions can already impact someone life. Like miss Ann…
Mosby The Gr8
August 17, 2020 at 1:13 am
–Black and native americans against immigration- sounds good.
–White people against racism- im with you there.
–Men for pay equity for women- if your doing the same job and are just as qualified, heck yeah.
–Heterosexual people defend lgbt- the ignorance is really hard to stand for. A person can be reasoned with but a crowd, not so much.
–Able bodied advocates for the disabled- was, and am