Just belonging: finding the courage to interrupt bias | Kori Carew | TEDxYouth@KC

A moment of racial tension presents a choice. Will we be silent about implicit and unconscious bias, or will we interrupt bias for ourselves and others? Justice, belonging, and community are at stake.
Kori Carew is a community builder who generates awareness and understanding of critical human issues by creating the space and climate for open dialogue that is meaningful, enables people to expand their perspective and drive positive change.
With grace and truth, she is a disruptor, womanist and social justice advocate. With a multi-national, multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual family background she brings a keen sensitivity to belonging and inclusion across differences and creating space for the under-represented. Kori pushes against the paradigms that divide communities and hold back individual potential, and at the center of her perspectives and passion is her faith. Kori Carew is a feminist and social justice advocate who was born in Canada, grew up as a Sierra Leonean, raised in Nigeria pushing against paradigms that attempt to dictate the direction of individual choices and -isms that divide communities.
Using advocacy and organizational strategy to address structural barriers to diversity in the workplace, she brings an incisive voice unapologetic questioning of the status quo, and a lifelong fascination of human potential to empowering women and marginalized people and improving inclusion.
Kori's drive toward redefining the circle of belonging fuels her work in the marketplace as well as in her community. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@noelgarrett2030]

This is such an amazing...and extremely important...TED Talk. Take 20 minutes and listen to this amazing person!

[@essentialmichele]

Thank you for speaking on this important topic. You are making a better future for us and for our children. I am going to listen to it again! If only we would all make space for each other and truly listen to others experiences the world would be a better place.

[@claireholden9720]

Thank you so much for sharing your story, for challenging us to share our own and for giving us guidelines on how to engage in these important conversations. My cultural mentor and I have grown so much together. It's amazing what happens when we create safe spaces where there is no judgement and where we're willing to show up with humble curiosity and vulnerability. Such an inspiring talk.

[@temiy2k1]

Excellent talk. Thanks for the courage and inspiration. I like that you provide concrete alternatives to the current discourse.

[@bespokenOxford]

Thank you so much. I love your start and end line. So true. I will do courage more as a result of your courage and eloquence in this talk.

[@michellemartinbonner601]

Thank you for being courageous and doing the work that must be done.

[@brigidcannon8130]

Thank you, Kori for giving voice to your life experience and sharing the TRUTH that we all need to hear. Blessings and keep helping us all to eliminate Racism. Peace and prayer, Sr. Brigid Cannon, OP

[@JarrettMeek]

Finding the courage to interrupt bias helps create belonging when people are marginalized. The examples and insights here are so helpful.

[@dominikaXOX]

This was so powerful, important and poetic. Well said, thank you for your vulnerability and courage.

[@Wanettepoems]

Well spoken, all of this.

[@liberty-matrix]

"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is. He confuses it with feeling." ~Thomas Sowell

[@johnbrink382]

This is an excellent and refreshing perspective piece. I am very surprised this has gotten < 5k views. Space needs to be made for ALL experiences at the table, shifting away from a dynamic where only the person with the most powerful and painful life experiences gets to talk. Kori nailed it.

[@koricarew5379]

Help me spread the word. Share the talk with friends and colleagues. Set up coffee dates to watch and discuss the ideas and explore with others how you can practice them.

[@freshencounter]

Yes. Like and share is how videos get around. This one is worth a moment.

[@dominickscalise7263]

Thank you for your vulnerability and challenge!!!! Many important points, esp love the discussion of listening w/out telling others how they SHOULD feel

[@arlinegeorge6967]

How messy,how pain full we will go on n on. Beautiful impressive amazing soul. Very inspiring. Pray more n more amazing souls like you multiply and create humanity where love and hope exist. Thank you, bless you. All your dreams come true. So rightly said courage is a practice,

[@kcmodickens]

I'm Listening.

[@louisacaldwell9951]

Thank you!

[@PeaceBeStill908]

Powerful speech! Thanks!

[@korirae2000]

These things need to be heard and repeated. I am listening. I am sharing and I am acting.

[@Chemicalevent]

This is one of my favorite ted talks

[@academicenglish4615]

Eloquent and powerful.

[@Michael-on9kn]

amazing

[@debbieogenyi6836]

Brilliant ❤️👏🏽

[@mackieme8927]

Courage doing the thing you don’t want to do! ❤

[@hostingmaster]

There is not Your Truths and My Truth, There is Only Truth

[@ayakmajok8337]

Good on her. Well done Kori! :)

[@freshencounter]

❤️

[@dogloverlcp]

Though I've never been made to feel less than because of the color of my skin (I don't use the word race), I have been marginalized because of my gender or economic status. You have spoken to me here, loudly. Thank you.

[@alika207]

I love you!

[@jessieb9099]

It’s a good talk, not necessarily new in ideas, but is good, repeated over and over until “kindness reaches a flood tide” to borrow from a quote from Mohammed Ali. Everyone wants to be heard, to have others willing to listen and understand.enough to show consideration. We are all human beings no more no less than another. Biblical guidance is to first love. May God bless each day we reach forward to be curious and courageous enough to know love and belonging human matters most.

[@manuelaguilar-nh9un]

In this kind of oproblems,we need to be patience ,happen to mant times,thanks,we need to teach good behave

[@oesterle6]

You know in that first story, I was thinking that she should just be considering it the security guard's(?) problem -- period. The problem being how he looks at the world. If he is ready to be more aware, he will think of what he did and realize the injustice he carried out. Otherwise, he will probably will not be changed at this point.

[@dianewiegel7136]

we need to do better an enforcing the laws, so their lives will change

[@daniel51020]

White denial of racism only makes the issues and harm of racism work. People need to take responsibility and heal their white shame and guilt. People with dark skin have other healing to do -- related to the system of racism and injustice. Yes, many people have areas where they have some privilege and many people have areas where they are disadvantaged or marginalised. Acknowledging these things honestly and opening starts to change the dynamic to one of mutual respect, understanding and empathetic. It's not always easy to start with listening and observing ourselves and others, yet it's vital. As Kori Carew said, we need to "Cultivate curiosity" -- especially for people who do not come from the social groups we identify with.

[@alain3768]

For the rest, I did listen and agree with you (her) on creating space for each other; listening emphatically , speaking up but also being curious and so I ask you Miss +Kori Carew : why did you mention the world (yes, just once, I know) because I really do not like to be dragged into this specific conversation that isn't meant for me. I'm sorry for all uncomfortable feelings you may feel with my 2 comments, so please be well, be strong & God bless you...

[@risinginvirgo]

Only 15K views???? What

[@BobSmith-cl6rg]

Far to many

[@traviscooley3417]

These marginalizations can get deadly.

[@hostingmaster]

Anecdotes does not make the Rule

[@baconcool898]

pluh

[@JohnDoe-jt5lb]

You're not marginalized, you're protected. I was forced to serve in the military in my country, option would have been jail. Whenever there's a dangerous situation at work, they ask me to handle it. Not the women, not the obese, not the weak. Me.

[@beinghimself]

Read the end of bias by jessica nordell. I know people like you might not read any useful book and might think of propaganda and uncool and victimising to describe people like this woman. But i’m just asking you to read one book. Thank you for being understandable

[@JohnDoe-jt5lb]

@@beinghimself I'm not reading anything some rando suggests. If you have an argument, present it. If not, you'll be treated with indifference.

[@beinghimself]

@@JohnDoe-jt5lb i have more than twenty arguments, with much more ideas for you to grasp. I consider you as someone who knows none of those. Considering each one of the arguments i tend to present are generally long detailed explanations with examples of biased behaviour i could provide from my memory and imagination, it would take me way more than what you would be able to read. There is a reason it takes whole books to explain concepts, and there is a reason people like you only exist in comment sections where too little can be said and the conversation is mostly biased. I do not suffer from the biases presented in that book, and i value my time greatly, so i apologise for not taking my time to explain for you, the action that is encouraged in this video

[@JohnDoe-jt5lb]

@@beinghimself you just admitted to being brainwashed by BS you can't justify. Happy new year anyway.

[@beinghimself]

@@JohnDoe-jt5lb i didn’t. But whatever helps you sleep at night

[@jazz105]

Thank God affirmative action was removed. I kept getting opportunities that my White or East Asian friends would not recieve because of their lack of color. Yes, POC's have struggled due to discrimination, but in the past decade I have noticed that companies and businesses have only cared about diversity and giving opportunities to POC just to fulfill a quota and their self-virtue. It's a spit in the face. I want to know that I earned my place because of my hard work and not because I am not white. Ridiculous. Terrible talk, She ignored the struggles and experiences of her coworker just as they ignored hers. Like talking to a brick wall.

[@genius11433]

I appreciate the talk, but I think that it is incomplete. There's a concrete example of how a conversation is _not_ supposed to go, but no example of how that same conversation _should_ go. Furthermore, in the conversation from 5:51 - 10:00, most people would say that you did everything *right* ; you showed the white man a perspective that he did not consider. If that's actually the *wrong* way to do things, *what does the right way look like* ? You gave principles, but no counterexample to show what those principles look like in practice.