I am releasing something into the world, and it's filled with joy and pain and sadness and much absurdity. My official TED talk is live, and you can find it at https://baratunde.com/livingwhileblack The title: "How to deconstruct racism one headline at a time" The topic: That strange, frustrating, unsurprising, phenomenon of white people calling the police on people who are just #livingwhileblack. The process: I literally collected every story of the #BBQBecky type, immersing myself in all that I could find, and in those headlines I spotted a pattern which turned into a key which unlocked a truth... about the nature and structure of oppression, and about how we can imagine our way into something much better, a sort of mutual liberation.
