Hi, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hugh. We are in the midst of a real reckoning this summer over racial injustice in the U.S. and in other countries. It's highlighting how when it comes to social issues, those in the majority often stay quiet about displays of prejudice and stereotyping.

So here's an idea to consider.

What if white people spoke up and helped lead the charge for racial equity?

In her 2019 TEDx Mile High talk, equity advocate Nita Mosby-Tyler explains the power

of unlikely allies to inspire real change.

You can ask anyone you want, and they will tell you that they are sick and tired of fighting for justice.

People of color and members of the LGBT community

are tired of carrying the burden

of speaking up and stepping up

even when they're being silenced

and pushed back down.

And white allies

and cis allies are tired too. Tired of being told they're doing it

wrong or that it isn't even their place to show up at all. This fatigue is impacting all of us.

And in fact, I believe we won't succeed until we approach justice in a new way.

I grew up in the middle of the civil rights movement, in the segregated South. As a five-year-old

girl, I was very interested in ballet. It seemed to be the five-year-old girl, I was very interested in ballet. It seemed to be the

five-year-old girl thing to do in the 1960s. My mother took me to a ballet school. You know,

the kind of school that had teachers that talked about your gifts and talents, knowing that

you'd never be a ballerina.

When we arrived, they said nicely that they did not accept Negroes.

We got back in the car as if we were just leaving a grocery store that was out of orange juice.

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