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The racial politics of time | Brittney Cooper

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Transcript of "The racial politics of time"

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TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript: Cultural theorist Brittney Cooper examines racism through the lens of time, showing us how historically it has been stolen from people of color, resulting in lost moments of joy and connection, lost years of healthy quality of life and the delay of progress.

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brittany cooper´s main assertion about race and time is that your race determines your future and youre not able to change that.

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Her main assertion of time and race is that people like her do not own time, they are not able to control their own future, rather, having race determining how long you get to live.

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Cooper’s main assertion is that your race impacts how much time you have and how much you get to impact time.

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Slavery and civil rights still impact black communities to this day. It’s not something you can just “get over.”

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Brittany Coopers main assertion is that "whites own time" meaning they are on control of how much time races get and have.

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BLM movements emerged as a result to the constant racial injustice of today (ie police brutality and hate crimes)

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Slavery, and racism have impacted these communities, even today, although not on a large scale, but still leaves marks with traces of those culture are still here in the present.

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To obtain civil rights will take a lot of time as the slow burn of inequality goes out. The only way to make this burn faster is to actively fight against it.

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As we all know, the victors write the history books and they continue to do so until this day. I am from Hawaii and it is sad to see that our history has been excluded and now people only see Hawaii as a vacation spot. Some people still believe that Hawaii is full of uncivilized people who live in grass huts.

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She's saying that a certain amount of people hold time and time controls how much other races have left

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She brought up the example of BLM movements and their cause.

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Cooper is basically saying that black people have been left out to control their own future due to how they have been viewed as a waste of space, or tools.

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To get rid of this, it can't just take a few people, but every single person to rid prejudice.

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Racism has impacted BIPOC communities by putting BIPOC in different zip codes than whites which another example of whites owning time since they choose the time you get by where you live.

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All I can really say is history is written by the victors, and you can't really ever change that.

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Racism has affected our present community as i has scarred many people, and things like redlining, can be seen, the effects have not vanished.

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she claims blacks have been excluded from history and by proxy, time itself. she claims this was done by whites, hence whites control time itself.

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BLM movements happening due to the racism that is still happening.

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the stains of time still mark blacks with slavery and racism. so time still has influence over them

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race-driven protest still happen to this day. so in present time this still impacts the black community

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the future must be chased so injustice is removed. so for there to be a clear future there must be a constant battle for it to be achieved

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Cooper exclaims that time is governed by whites due to African Americans being discriminated against throughout history

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says because of whites, black people don't have time to accomplish things

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Coates states, “And I saw that what divided me from the world was not anything intrinsic to us but the actual injury done by people intent on naming us, intent on believing that what they have named us matters more than anything we could ever actually do.” Throughout time we have been categorized by shape or color or clothing that no matter what we do to alter that perception we will always be in that category making us less of humans and more akin to sheep or objects which funny enough was how African Americans were treated like in the past and to this day the category of enslaved person lingers

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Her arguement is that black people do not have enough time, not as much as white people.

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Her arguement is that black people do not have enough time, not as much as white people.

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sunny- Different zip codes can mean a shorter life span for black youth.

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sunny- Different zip codes can mean a shorter life span for black youth.

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Sunny-- first, decide time belongs to everyone. 

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Sunny-- first, decide time belongs to everyone. 

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different zip code means terrible schools which is why  student should decide what school they want to go to 

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different zip code means terrible schools which is why  student should decide what school they want to go to 

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i think her main argument is that for all of history, black people and PoC have been seen as people who take up space rather than a big part of our history. she also says that avoiding the topic of race will not simply vanish racism.

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Her main assertion is that we are not able to change time nor do people of our race have much control over their future.

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her main assertion is that the generation and time we live in now is not made to support people of color and it seems as if people really skip over and or ignore what African Americans have done in history.

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She thinks that white people control time, which makes a lot of sense to me actually.

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She thinks that white people control time, which makes a lot of sense to me actually.

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Nothing will ever change as long we keep placing the same people who have placed these system  in the first place. Step one for change is find new leaders who are willing to make a change not people that have been running for office for centuries 

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Nothing will ever change as long we keep placing the same people who have placed these system  in the first place. Step one for change is find new leaders who are willing to make a change not people that have been running for office for centuries 

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Racism and slavery still impact the life of POC today. These are not issues we can just ignore or get over.

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Time, race and history are things that are intrinsically tied together by the fact that white people have had uncontested control over it and even other's own time in various ways, up to and including individuals'(black) lifespans and rights, regardless of our own perception of racial progress.

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The very concept of racism is unforgettable as never again would something be so heinous and widely accepted all at once and it’s for this reason it cannot be easily forgotten

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The past ideologies of Black people in America still affect what people think of Blacks today.

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The past ideologies of Black people in America still affect what people think of Blacks today.

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besides mentioning how history repeats itself in civil rights movements and blm protests, she talks about the effects of gentrification in cities or places where the majority of people have been black or people of color for generations.

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To this day underrepresentation of a minority has triggered protests from anything to race to class with iconic movements like BLM being the most recent example race is at the forefront of the protest

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she talks about how we need to learn how to manage time together and allow everyone to have a “fair and free” life.

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Equality is an impossibility in a society that refuses to acknowledge their faults in order to achieve the hopeful dream of leaders like MLK we first must unite to drastically alter our very systems in place

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White people are in charge of all the big companies of things we use, so her saying Whites control time (esp of minorities) is very true

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White people are in charge of all the big companies of things we use, so her saying Whites control time (esp of minorities) is very true

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It took over 100 years for real institution change to occur for black people in America for their right to vote since the end of the American Civil War, in which the North fought for the freedom of enslaved people. Not only this, but since 2012, white lawmakers have been desperately making sure black individuals had an extremely difficult time throughout the voting process to restrict them any way they could.

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We need to fix what we see around us that is wrong, and everyone needs to make a conscious decision to do so.

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We need to fix what we see around us that is wrong, and everyone needs to make a conscious decision to do so.

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History is written by the victors as Ryan said; though the victors usually hide all the bad things they did to get to where they are. We need to expose that, not just for us but our ancestors AND our future children. If they don't know, and are taught "slavery happened but white people aren't racist anymore" that's a big lie.

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History is written by the victors as Ryan said; though the victors usually hide all the bad things they did to get to where they are. We need to expose that, not just for us but our ancestors AND our future children. If they don't know, and are taught "slavery happened but white people aren't racist anymore" that's a big lie.