We Are Not a Melting Pot | Michelle Silverthorn | TEDxLakeForestCollege

[@desmondehoppie4758]

Very Informative and Important

[@kenweiss7114]

Excellent Excellent Excellent

[@curtainup9]

Great talk and great presenter

[@annaroon]

This was an eye opening talk. I appreciate the insight and I have a better understanding of implicit bias and racism.

[@ginaquien343]

Melting pots don’t work

[@mrpumperknuckles1631]

Yeah I put my rocks and leafs into my pot but they don’t make chicken dumplings

[@sjacks3281]

it is odd how the melting pot idea came into being when the U.S. was never intended to be a melting pot, let alone integrated. George Washington wrote a letter to a Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island in it he said "May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid." Integration had to be forced on the U.S. through protests. Europeans that conquered Turtle Island tried to assimilate indigenous people. They forbid them from practicing their own customs. They took their children away from them and forced them to adopt European customs or killed them. Europeans brought Africans to Turtle Island and forbid them from practicing their own customs. All the while, Europeans adopted African and indigenous customs they thought were cool while degrading Africans and indigenous people for the same customs. BUT, there is a sort of melting happening Asian Americans are grouped together even though they hardly share common cultures. European Americans are grouped together and often lose touch with the customs of their country of origin. African Americans are grouped together even though we are not a monolith, don't come from the same places and don't have the same ancestry.

[@AiAi-td3lw]

I have a really good question, is America moving forward or backward?

[@lialia2268]

It’s been getting worse since it was founded. But, it is functioning EXACTLY how it’s founders wanted it to.

[@morrowseer415]

It is moving neither forward or backward. It is moving apart. People, especially those who say they are accepting, are not willing to accept everybody. We are becoming too polarized and insulting each other because of differing ideals, and it is so sad. There is probably a group that even you are not willing to accept, whether that be race-based, political, or religion-based, there is probably someone you are not willing to accept, and it won't get that much better until we are willing to accept each other: ALL of each other.

[@sjacks3281]

the world operates on a pendulum. Some things get better and some things get worse and those things change constantly.

[@simonkalland6557]

Who's here for social studies

[@llorzz]

Awesome presentation

[@techiewiskers]

her:ending the masking is a start 2020:Sorry that a'int gonna happen

[@specmage1247]

Oh who cares! Glad she made it here and went to law school to make a bunch of money. She lost me 3 minutes in.

[@jamessweeney5459]

Who's here for AP Human Geo

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hey james.

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@@ryanotoole1379 what's up

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nothing much how r u doing@@jamessweeney5459

[@morrowseer415]

I as well!

[@milofigallo9759]

My man James, I just had to close the window and almost missed this

[@rtalways]

We need homie the clown to come back why does Ted x give a soap box to an educated woman with a chip on her shoulder I came from a for. Country also biased racism is so miniscule

[@womenwhodarellc5732]

Love those third graders. Great story of how racism is learned.

[@faanengaaw7357]

I think the problem is whites need to be more & more open to colored people then vice versa.

[@martthesling]

😂

[@kokabauer5784]

why i need to watch this in geography man i dont understand anything

[@DonJacin]

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