Hi, it's Bryce Dallis Howard, guest hosting today on TED Talks Daily.

Here's a talk from an incredible TED fellow and the STEM educator Brittany Young,

a community leader tackling national issues by turning passions into opportunities for STEM education and career development.

I want you to take this journey with me. Let's set the stage. It's a Sunday in Baltimore.

It could be kids in a park when in Druitt Hill. They're watching dirt bike riders go

past, do tricks, pot willies, do stunts, they're zipping.

You can hit the engines revving, smell the gasoline.

You can see the joy and excitement in their face.

Someone's probably learning how to fix their dirt bike because the parts are way too expensive to buy.

Then they can go to school.

They can get a pop quiz or a test from a teacher. You know,

the kind we all heard and we've all hated. A train that's leaving from New York goes to Cleveland,

but they're here in Baltimore. How does this relate? They don't get it. They failed the test,

and now they can hate school. Then, the world can be turned upside down.

They can get on Facebook, on Instagram, get a call or a text.

They can watch as their friend can become a hashtag.

A kid in the wrong place, the wrong time, lost to the streets, lost to the system,

or lost to gun violence, or a kid that could be arrested for a dirt bike because in my city it can be a

misdemeanor for possession of a dirt bike this can be a likely story for black kids across the

country and states like Miami Cleveland Atlanta Philly whatever place had the dirt bike task

force now ask yourself if the thing you use to relieve your stress, if it was demonized,

but you still do it, if it was criminalized, the answer is yes. That's the reality for black people

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