The case for a new Great Migration in the US | Charles M. Blow

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🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Social progress in the United States often seems to take two steps forward and one step back, with hard-fought civil rights wins countered by a seemingly inevitable backlash. In this spirited talk, writer Charles M. Blow makes the case that history, inverted, suggests a potential path forward. It's an unapologetically provocative proposal that Blow thinks just might spark a real shift toward equality in the US.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:10.0	I'm Elise Hume.
0:12.0	Writer Charles Blow has a provocative plan
0:14.6	to access true racial equality in the US.
0:17.8	It doesn't require marches or pleading
0:20.0	with people in charge of the federal government.
0:22.3	In his 2023 talk from Ted Women,
0:24.5	he shares his vision for shifting power
0:27.1	and makes a case for why it could work after the break.
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0:37.0	Stay tuned after this talk to hear a sneak peek of this week's episode.
0:41.0	In the summer of 2020, after the murder of George Floyd,
0:47.0	we saw one of the largest series of protests for racial justice
0:52.0	in American history.
0:55.0	Millions of people, mostly young,
0:57.4	a plurality, white, poured into the streets
1:00.8	to assert that black lives matter
1:02.9	and to demand police accountability and racial justice.
1:07.6	Some optimistically thought that this was
1:10.5	the beginning of a racial reckoning. We painted murals on the streets, we took down statues.
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