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of Conversations with Coleman. Okay, so today I'm finally going to give a full account of what

happened with my TED Talk. In the intro to my debate with Jamel Bowie, I mentioned that there was some inner turmoil

at TEDs surrounding the release of my talk, but I left it there.

Now I'm at liberty to give a full account of what exactly happened with the release of my TED Talk.

So let's go back to the start.

This past April, I gave a talk at the yearly

TED conference in Vancouver, Canada. In that talk, I defended colorblindness, which is the idea

that we should treat people without regard to race, both in our personal lives and in our public policy.

That's also the topic of my upcoming book. Even though a majority of Americans

believe that colorblind policies are the right approach to governing a racially diverse society,

we live in a strange moment where many of our elites believe that colorblindness is actually

a Trojan horse for white supremacy. Taking that viewpoint seriously, while ultimately refuting it, was the point

of my talk. As you might imagine, Ted is a well-oiled machine. So in the weeks and months leading

up to the conference, I wrote my talk, revised it in coordination with Ted's curation team,

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