Elijah Anderson - The Cosmopolitan Canopy

[@AndrewWilliams-pl8tz]

Fantastic! I love this concept from Elijah, still very applicable to many public places globally today.

[@rexracernj7696]

Hmm...perceptive thoughts, set in my home city. It's quite true that anyone in a setting in which they're a visible minority can encounter a confrontational moment from someone in the more predominant population. The key thing is to NOT let that define one's whole experience there, to recognize that the confrontational person, in many cases, is just a "bad one" among a larger population that isn't so hostile, and thus not begin habitually shying away from such places. Of course, I've personally seen a few, rare situations in which such a confrontational person harassed a visible minority member and the larger crowd did nothing to help, seen it happen with blacks or Latinos in "white spaces" AND to whites in "black spaces" too. I'm a mixed-race guy BTW.

[@juhalee9516]

permission to use for the class discussion

[@TheBrainwavesChannel]

Juha you have my permission to this video for class discussion. Thanks for asking. - Bob