Taking Up Space | Yale University | Netflix

Shows like Dear White People - Show matter because they're based on real-life experiences. Here's what it looks like off-screen when Black folk take it upon themselves to create community despite being one of a few.
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[@africanliving294]

She’s so well spoken. I’m crying because I could never 😭😭

[@amalzuhair4495]

Nina Neenaah don’t you ever bring yourself down just because you can’t “speak properly” or to the standards of the man doesn’t mean you’re not just as smart or just as beautiful or just as important.

[@Ms.Opinionated]

Hi African Chai, I am not sure if you are aware of this or not; saying a black person is"well spoken" is an insult, it feeds into stereotypes about black folk. People have said that to me my whole life and it was /is insulting to me and my parents. Please receive this with love. One 💘 Peace and hair grease

[@ElevateResumeDesign]

You guys make me proud 🥲

[@knjedwards9037]

I'm so proud of this young lady it' takes a lot of courage to stand up for right instead of excepting the wrong and doing nothing about it I'm pulling for you believing in you and trusting God will lead and guide you to ultimate success.

[@AshleyObasi]

This is soooo important! Thank you Netflix for creating this type of content. It's so important to highlight the experience black students face at PWI's. This is the first step to change, the institutions that be can no longer hide their flaws. They must address the racial bias on campus and provide resources to change them.

[@Stormaggedonx]

She’s getting her bachelors and masters at the same time? My hero wow

[@darkmage4648]

I spent my college life just taking exams and sleeping. I'm amazed how much these students are able to do.

[@mstrulygolden]

This is amazing! Great job Netflix. Kudos young scholars. Continued success to you all!

[@ripvanwinkle6449]

As their stock prices plummet and membership declines.

[@selenem3967]

She's such a great singer! Oh my god

[@knockout563]

This was pretty beautiful, Black folk never cease to amaze me. I love my people !

[@einc70]

Interesting documentaries intelligent kids. 👍👍

[@Malado365]

*Correction* Intelligent adults!

[@kaleshaknight5561]

Loved the short doc and I loved the spirit of all the youth! Ashtan’s voice is amazing! Keep rising!

[@IslamicIns1ghts]

this was beautiful. I love the message behind this 💕

[@baileysims7861]

i loveeee this video. also this girl can SING.

[@CommanderJon919]

Those glasses are 🔥🔥

[@battlegirldeb]

So many of you are missing the point. Racism can be found anywhere today even at our Universities. It is how we as a people learn to deal and change. In this video you miss a school singer group that is made up of people from all races trying to make it better for everyone.

[@jenisedai]

You know that drugs, gangs, etc. take place in white communities, too, right? Those are just social problems in our society, full stop. They aren't limited to a single race, and a single race isn't the problem.

[@jenisedai]

1. No, it's not worse. Meth and opiods are plaguing white communities far more than black ones, we just don't hear about it as much because opiods are still technically legal and meth happens largely out in the country. White people don't like to talk about people of their own race doing bad stuff, so that's another reason it doesn't make the news. 2. There's no reason to protest black on black murders, any more than there's a reason to protest white on white murders. They protest when it's minority cops killing black people, too. It isn't a race problem as much as it is a power problem, but black people are overwhelmingly the victims of these attacks. They're also much more likely to get the cops called on them for doing normal things like taking a nap or waiting under an overhang for their Uber. 3. When it comes to who kills who, raw numbers are deceptive. There are more than twice as many white people in the US than there are black people, so it's entirely normal that more white people would be killed. Statistically, there are a higher percentage of black people being killed by white people than vice versa. There's also a HUGE percentage more women being killed by men than vice versa... but we won't get into that right now. 4. Most black people in the US are middle class and have no more interaction with gangs than the average white person- IOW, seeing it on TV. A tiny minority of black people, white people, Asian people, Hispanic people, etc. are involved in gangs. Blaming this on gangs is ridiculous. The vast majority of murders happen for other reasons, like domestic arguments or disagreements between people who know each other that has nothing to do with drugs or gangs. 5. In communities where gangs exist, they aren't there and active for no reason. Gangs proliferate in areas that are without hope. They have poor education, poor job prospects, and see no way out of their situation. They get told to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, but they have no boots. Until jobs can be created in those communities and the people can see a way out of the cycle of intergenerational poverty, things will never change.

[@jenisedai]

I'm not talking about drug addiction either, I'm talking about drug related crime. The problem of black gangs are being overstated by you, that's what I was trying to say. Gangs (of any kind, by any race) FLOURISH in severely poor areas, I never said they were limited to them. But that is where you are more likely to find them. I find your insistence on blaming black gangs frustrating. Gangs and drugs aren't the problem, they're symptoms. You can't solve the problem by magically wiping out gangs, or drugs. Both of them point to a deeper problem, which is what I was getting to at the end of my last post. You can't have an honest discussion without acknowledging the disadvantages these communities face. Whether you're talking about the (largely minority) urban poor in cities, the (largely white) rural poor, or the poverty found in many tribal reservations, the problem comes down to not having adequate education and not having adequate career prospects within those communities that would make that education worthwhile. Without jobs to look forward to, they see no reason to strive for a better education. Without a decent education, they aren't qualified for better jobs. It's amazing what can happen when a poor community has a business or two open within the community that employs people from that community and sells to people outside the community. It's an influx of much needed capital that has wide reaching results. Instead, our capital has become more and more concentrated, and more and more out of reach of the average citizen.

[@Mdb0514]

Yes, so many people are missing the point indeed. I don’t know how you can watch this video and not see, or hear or empathize with these peoples experiences of racism. If things like this can happen at Yale, there is no hope. I can’t believe someone would be denied entrance to a party because of their color AT YALE?

[@ripvanwinkle6449]

You can also find racism in the Netflix originals. It's okay though. You can't be racist to white people.

[@arlenev1726]

Meanwhile I’m failing math and social studies 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@tristiandavis6852]

Lol

[@katrinadas4953]

Her braids r so cute

[@dwightswan2265]

They are culturally appropriated braids from Native Americans.

[@lightkingz]

They are doing activism right, you need inclusion of non people of color if you want a real chance to get actual change because the public at large can easily identify a receive the message more easily, it’s a big part of the civil rights movement that helped to push it forward by spreading across the country

[@rosemariewildflower1]

Is it that people of color need to incorporate white voice to be heard? Or do white people need to learn to listen to the negative experiences of people of color without feeling threatened or defensive? Having non-people of color speak up for minorities only solidifies the status quo.

[@stephaniehernandez1592]

The world is not only made up of black and white.

[@aidasall4815]

@@rosemariewildflower1 - exactly !!

[@beearaba]

Loving this! It needs to continue to be talked about. #sharing #takingupspace

[@prim6162]

l love how she says "police need to receive training in how you should respond to certain situations"...That's true most police do need such training or at list just being aware.

[@raimotoni5665]

She's quite articulate. She will have a fantastic career as a narrator.

[@dwebb5708]

Beautiful story

[@cardion411]

Loved. Loved. Loved this.

[@gabriellejohn8048]

She’s so amazing

[@RivaTheDiva]

Def lookin forward to seeing this

[@monikabailey4594]

I can’t wait to watch this!!!!

[@QueenZsWorld]

I admire her boldness. wow.

[@leauxdaniels8155]

The straightening of the hair thing was opposite for me. When I would wear my hair straight I received many compliments from non black ppl and got hit on more by white guys. When I wore my hair straight , black ppl complimented me the most

[@ericam3287]

Amazing!!!

[@jdwm516]

Wow! So proud 😁👍🏾

[@VanessaAttah]

she's beautiful!

[@Katie-bu9zw]

Yale University!! Is my dream school! I want to pursue criminal justice! And this inspired me! Thank you Netflix

[@nuthig8968]

I get so jealous when Black women wear their hair natural in braids or have those crazy curly afros like DAMN. Y'all are gorgeous I wish my hair could do things like that.

[@dogsye9218]

I love her glasses

[@rosewood3294]

Her communication skills are strong AF. Goals

[@theafromath]

She looks just like issa❤️

[@Skullman367]

I wish we could get more Black people talking about astronomy, computer science, artificial intelligence, medicine, philosophy of technology… etc. Talking about race is not only intellectually easy, but is simply too controversial nowadays with the “anti racism” ideology turning to a pseudo-religion.

[@migimuis3564]

Beautiful❤️❤️

[@prabhatkumarhacker]

I think someone should make documentary on the discrimination of schedule cast student by professor in India they are more racist than anyone .

[@vanikasumbly9746]

that's not racism, it's casteism.

[@bodhi821345]

Loving this Taking Up Space series.

[@lucassoares7907]

go marco polo. go.go.go!!

[@kwakunyarko6371]

Is there one of these for Princeton by any chance?? It’s hard to get to know these schools well from my couch, but Corona virus is shutting down all of America😭😭. Sincerely, Prospective Black Princeton Student ‘24

[@juaquinastor3706]

It’s crazy how they make their side look like this and then you actually see the events they’re talking about

[@VanessaAttah]

being black at a PWI is making me much 'blacker' too. from my hair, to my style, to my friends.

[@nairobersandoval755]

Love you

[@bhavya.d1897]

She is so beautiful

[@nickh9726]

Say what you want about her politics, that girl is fiiine

[@user-ku1np8bs8n]

There’s a typo in the description

[@rainxbow1365]

When will season 3 be coming out for "A series of unfortunal events?"

[@aggelosalexandris1925]

Pls make Bat Pat too 😢

[@simaofilipe8682]

This video is to my surprise actually good, I 100% agree with everything, except the email incident, I really think people and especially this students need to just reflect a bit more about the "email issue" because I believe anyone with common sense could tell that the reaction the students had was really extremely exaggerated.

[@ezequiel3897]

Netflix is Very nice

[@gillowens24]

That is horrible everyone should been loved

[@angelalexandris4716]

Where is Bat Pat?

[@benroe9490]

why are there black and white photos in the video?

[@AntonSlizzardhands]

Women like her belong in office. I'm with Ashtan.

[@katherineramirez8215]

👐🏽👐🏽👐🏽

[@sponsormyserial7789]

Race shouldn't be a factor in choosing anything, if you treat ppl with respect, ppl will treat u back equally, if not then their just botches

[@wearefunny1000]

Elim YEUNG Unfortunately, we don’t get treated with respect. So it has to be discussed

[@johnjohn1009]

The article by Prof Christakis was not racist or about cultural appropriation….

[@zaippiaz]

why the dislikes...???

[@dwightswan2265]

Some one called me a racist not too long ago. I replied "of course I am" do you think I am stupid".

[@BreyonnaMorgan18]

I'm from Louisiana. I went to Colorado for an internship. Racism is worse in Colorado.

[@NinjaThatLongboards]

The South was forced to integrate while the north and west was just assumed to be ok

[@silergal9994]

theres the thing that SAE is the target of a nother documentary about sexual assault and girls know that because girls calls it sexual assualt expected

[@ant9260]

The Halloween email thing is simply not true. I go to Yale. It's funny how people can twist things.

[@cullenmcdermott5610]

No way I was born in tn want a poli sci major and I wanna go to yale

[@sarfaraz.hosseini]

Yale and Havard need to stop discriminating against Asian Americans on admissions. Legacy admissions also need to change.

[@irvinprovost6803]

Money talks, unfortunately.

[@throughethanseyes2843]

Sarfaraz Hussein Merchant Why ?They are PRIVATE insitutions which was built on Legacy admissions;thats why the Ivy League is essentailly The Oldest Universities. And to address race exculusion.. Asians would be Probaly more than 50% of Universities Based on Test Scores and E.C and that will just Run into more problems with Angry White and Black Teens Raging about Asians Having Advantage ..The System will never be perfect

[@crazyworldthis]

They scared 😅

[@kbotero8355]

a princeton study showed that being asian is the equivalent of subtracting 100 points from the 1600 point sat while "African-American applicants receive the equivalent of 230 extra SAT points (on a 1600-point scale), and being Hispanic is worth an additional 185 SAT points"

[@kbotero8355]

i gave it. its a princeton study, which i took a straight quote out of. a quick google search and you can find it.

[@vzmo]

Hey how about bobs burgers season 8

[@kappy3098]

Can u put the 3rd season of ash vs evil please I luv that show

[@juliacamilleri5799]

❤❤❤First❤❤❤

[@jonnyjensen399]

1st

[@DrTurdsley]

Another college kid who has the world all figured out.

[@MagentaApex]

Turdsley bruh. You can not listen to this woman and not see how intelligent and aware she is. She isn't just acting like an adult, she is one

[@ripvanwinkle6449]

Would you allow her to do your taxes?

[@huelu982]

😐

[@terry_tamali]

Yeah.

[@glennbarrera8353]

No one has the world all figured out

[@notsorry4735]

The costume thing was pure evil by the students.

[@VivekPatel-vr1pl]

So much of the allure of Ivy League schools comes from the amount of exclusion they exhibit. If any Ivy tripled their enrollment within the next few years, the current students would be outraged.

[@kagomemedina1538]

Like I get it changing the name of the place but at the same time I feel like it would kind of be sticking it to Calhoun by having a large population of minorities living there

[@happypandas2069]

These comments are cancer

[@huelu982]

Is that really Yale?...elite colleges nowadays?...

[@richardberman6694]

Netflix propaganda

[@lisacadogan]

2020...racial atrocity = flag you don't like being waved!

[@NinjaThatLongboards]

The confederacy was fighting to maintain slavery, their traitor flag is racist as hell

[@hummingbird1016]

She has not experienced racial atrocities. Wrong use of word. Racial atrocities ware what the slaves experienced. But, she seems like a very intelligent and poised young lady. So i hope she does not dwell on racial crap. As long as no one blocks you into class or do anything to impede your ability to get an education then who cares how others feel about you?

[@tp9623]

You’re comment is a racial atrocity😒

[@reesesaddler4744]

Birukti Tsige well fact is employers/educators can’t discriminate you based on race. But as a black female, it feels wrong (at least to me) to say how bad discrimination is compared to older generations. It’s a fact most people aren’t racist, so why should I let one tiny minority affect my life? Also, this isn’t to be rude

[@NinjaThatLongboards]

FWIW, the confederate flag represents a desire to keep committing atrocities against slaves

[@dddz961]

Can we copystrike Netflix?

[@lowiq224]

I hate the part where she brings up the costume thing. If a white child wants to dress up as a black princess they should, because of course someone's going to get offended it's 2018 and everyone gets offended by something. If we just make rules that keeps people from getting offended it's going to be impossible to maintain. I don't see how it's offending anyone by dressing up as a fictional princess. The reason the police came while a black woman was sleeping was not because of black woman was sleeping but because someone was sleeping not in a dorm what was it a chair. If you see someone sleeping on a chair that you've never seen before you are probably going to call the cops. You don't know if they're going to hurt someone or if they should even be there. The hair part some people like different types of hair. A very high percentage of people like straight hair. So if you're not getting compliments because of your hair it's because people don't like it. It doesn't matter if people don't like it just ignore it. It's their opinion and you can have your opinion. I'm guessing there was a reason they named all those things for white men who owned slaves. Not because they own slaves but for a different reason that they earned. If they earned it doesn't mean you should take it away just for one reason that doesn't even involve it. If you somehow finish reading all of this please reply to me and give me your own opinion cuz, I don't want this to just be one-sided I want to see other people's opinions.

[@alexandrafoster2825]

dressing up as a black princess is not cultural appropriation.

[@lowiq224]

Alexandra Foster I agree with that

[@ripvanwinkle6449]

Please appropriate the culture of paragraph breaks.

[@lowiq224]

Rip Van WInkle what

[@ripvanwinkle6449]

A paragraph break is a single line space or an indentation (or both) marking the division between one paragraph and the next in a body of text. It is also known as a par break.

[@claudiaivy104]

wtf i thought that yale was full of smart people.

[@ripvanwinkle6449]

What is "smart"?

[@presidentofkekistan2690]

Not this perpetual victim who probably never had a hard day in her life

[@kwakunyarko6371]

Tyrion Lannister May I ask why you assumed that? Not even to be disrespectful, I’d genuinely like you understand your train of thought

[@presidentofkekistan2690]

because leftist love victim status, most of them never struggle. Whenever these kinds of SJW's say racist I'm like OK whatever they are on about it's a 99% chance it's not even slightly racist let alone out right racism.

[@swissyodeler6970]

not academically either, most blacks/hispanics get in with well below average GPAs and sat scores

[@presidentofkekistan2690]

Whenever these kinds of SJW's say racist I'm like OK whatever they are on about it's a 99% chance it's not even slightly racist let alone out right racism.

[@wearefunny1000]

Tyrion Lannister Did you watch the video?

[@stoic_guides]

Why would you want to got to a racist's party anyways? How does whining about racists help anything? Just ignore them and get on with your life, everyone's not accepted somewhere for some reason, so what. They're the ignorant ones, you should pity them. What do you expect to accomplish by constantly complaining? Live by example, do what's right, that's how you make racists look foolish. Marching doesn't change racists, an act of kindness, and resilience through persecution can change a heart.

[@janderson947]

it's hard to ignore when you can't even get into starbucks without getting profiled or called the cops on, for barbecuing, for selling water look it up you can only ignore it for so long how can you ignore something that you are getting called the cops just for being you...

[@stoic_guides]

The media exploits those instances, those aren't common occurrences throughout the US on the daily, and you know it. I never said racism doesn't happen, I said you need to stop whining about ignorant people, ignore them and get on with your life. I was harassed by store owners, cops and my community growing up just based on the way I looked, I didn't march and whine about it, I lived my life, dealt with it when I had to and moved on. The problem is everyone has an expectation that people need to like you, and treat you with respect, they don't, they won't, get over it.

[@janderson947]

they should RESPECT YOU that is the thing people are human and not everyone brushes it off someone can have a small racial incident and brush it off some might have BIGGER racial incident and cannot brush it off or they will think it is okay and it's not when someone call the cops on you and you do NOTHING WRONG it's different up until then she is saying she knew she was black but she never though it was such an ISSUE until then and when you live on ON CAMPUS why should she always feel ostracized for the color of her skin any minority should not feel that way this person was so COMFORTABLE CALLING THE COPS ON her for no reason a little kid was called the cops for cutting a small portion of someone's grass what they are saying you make me feel uncomfortable and that it matters more than you do i think you are doing something illegal like stealing (without any proof)or you are bothering me just by BREATHING THESE PEOPLE NEVER spoke to them NOTHING THEY DID IT JUST BECAUSE and it is not right you cannot do that to everybody and think they won't come for you...

[@stoic_guides]

There's a big difference about what people should do, and what they have to do. Of course people being racist is just ignorant, but you can't stop that by complaining and playing the victim, that won't change any racist's mind. The best way to counter it is by living your life the best you can and in retaliation respond with kindness. This is a free country where you're allowed to think whatever way you want about people and act on that within the confines of the law, if they step over that they can be arrested, but outside that the best way to endure racism is not by whining and playing the victim, it's by having confidence in who you are despite what others think or do. We possibly just see this differently, I know personally that being bitter, playing the victim, and being overly focused on what others think and do concerning you is only counter productive. I also know when someone dosen't like you for the way you look, and if you act kind towards them it really catches them off guard and you know later on they're going to reflect a little deeper on their prejudices. Peace Janderson

[@princessd3966]

Ruminate how does ignoring racism help ?

[@jamiesiple7703]

sorry, not going to watch it. you can so. for a record, i have many experiences with all kind of people, and i do not get this thinking so you can have this kind of thinking it is not for myself to judge you.

[@alexandrafoster2825]

you took your time to comment about not wanting this way of thinking and not wanting to watch. So why didn't you not want to comment?

[@janderson947]

exactly when you are black you are the darkest color there is, and not it makes other people uncomfortable who care a girl got called on by someone for taking a nap it becomes a PROBLEM

[@johnfredrik5345]

Than why comment?

[@jamiesiple7703]

because i believe in love thy neighbor

[@samwhaddad]

The school is old. The people who donated get their names on buildings. It how it works.... if you don’t like it don’t go there

[@trademark3759]

For every 10 movies Netflix makes at least 1 is mediocre

[@bigballs9659]

Black this. Black that! You guys wanna be included in everything yet separate yourselves at the same time with creating black spaces. Being a racist and a "victim" seems to be the way to get ahead for blacks now. Congratulations.

[@NinjaThatLongboards]

Why can't they be included and have black spaces? Most spaces are white by default

[@wendycrawford6885]

Can we get rid of trump ????..half of all racial issues will go away.

[@yuecoocieme3541]

@hakkespade why are you under everyone's comment. Mind ya business. Jesus! 😑

[@ACTruitt]

I want more movies not race-baiting BS, Netflix. Thanks!!!

[@ezi9982]

ACTruitt sounds like another asian not wanting to hear the truth about racism!

[@ACTruitt]

That's racist.

[@tristiandavis6852]

@@ACTruitt no it's not

[@ACTruitt]

well im asian American so, next!

[@NinjaThatLongboards]

You think anything talking openly about race is race-baiting.

[@3506Dodge]

Yale has become a finishing school, not a place for a rigorous education. If a flag is an "atrocity" i fear for her ability to live in the real world.

[@shirlenecambridge6666]

3506Dodge are we not all living in the same "real world", you've just never had to be in fear because of your race from a group of people

[@presidentofkekistan2690]

I guess netflix is rich enough now to throw money out the window on BS shows like this

[@swissyodeler6970]

End affirmative action.

[@princessd3966]

waiting 90 days to change my name end racism too ..

[@swissyodeler6970]

Affirmative action is racism.

[@jewishbastard483]

Why do you race bait

[@Thesavagesouls]

Dragonetta, he has the right to give his opinion, we are not forced to shut up to protect your feelings. (It works both way ;)

[@jewishbastard483]

Thesavagesouls thank you

[@alicesheng]

G. A. Thank you.

[@ripvanwinkle6449]

"Black individual at an elite institution. " Man. That systemic racism sure does keep you down doesn't it?

[@jlhabitan50]

G.A. If you know of a documentary about such a subject matter, maybe you could pitch it to Netflix and have it picked up for their worldwide distribution.