Recognizing Privilege: Power to All People | Michael Yates | TEDxTexasStateUniversity

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  • Опубликовано: 11 янв 2018
  • Everyone will walk away from this talk knowing something about privilege! Often times the thing that separates us from other people is the way we are viewing ourselves. What if we could all come together by viewing ourselves in a different way? Mike tells us how to come together in power! Michael Yates has been working in education for the last seven years as a college readiness tutor, education programs coordinator and a teacher. Michael is a proud graduate of Texas State University with undergraduate degrees in Applied Sociology and Communication Studies. He is currently pursuing his graduate degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Western Governors University. He has coached basketball for the last eight years and is a licensed USA basketball coach. Outside of school Mr. Yates hosts speech and debate camps and public speaking workshops for adult professionals through his organization, Rising Star Speech. He is also a regular contributor for an online publication called We Are Teachers. Mr. Yates has a wife, Alexandria, and three children, Austin, Brooklyn, and London. 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

Комментарии • 79

  • @mikaylav4081
    @mikaylav4081 Год назад +4

    His cadance is awesome! Makes you feel like he's talking to a respected friend, doesn't feel robotic at all.

  • @romelllane7583
    @romelllane7583 Год назад +4

    Great speech Michael, hopefully your audience takes it to heart. Appreciate your vision...

  • @semigloss
    @semigloss 4 года назад +26

    Love the idea of helping students understand that they already have some power through the backpack metaphor. As educators, our job is to help students fill that backpack with the powers they need to succeed and rise above their circumstances.

  • @arlinegeorge6967
    @arlinegeorge6967 3 года назад +3

    Great amazing impressive soul. Pray more n more amazing souls rise n shine. Thank you, bless you. All your dreams come true. Culture of power may help color religion or status.

  • @pearlshin14
    @pearlshin14 3 года назад +4

    I came here for some bad explanetion about white privilige and how we should turn it down or give more power to everyone else but us.
    I left with some wholesome thoughts instead. Because this man gets it.

  • @butterflymagicwithhottea9291
    @butterflymagicwithhottea9291 4 года назад +6

    Very empowering message - thank you

  • @marielavona5855
    @marielavona5855 4 месяца назад

    thank you you have some power tool!

  • @mariateresathoreson2589
    @mariateresathoreson2589 5 лет назад +20

    Thank you... for the backpack power. As a woman of color, this is something I can definitely use!

  • @fabricemikobi2173
    @fabricemikobi2173 4 года назад +5

    Powerful message.

  • @jubilantsleep
    @jubilantsleep 4 года назад +3

    HISD in the house!

  • @brodiejr4real
    @brodiejr4real 5 лет назад +6

    Outstandingly powerful! My backpack is full!

  • @seanobu
    @seanobu 6 лет назад +11

    Aye my teacher Mr. Yates talking about us

  • @aidencary2948
    @aidencary2948 6 лет назад +18

    dude this guy was my god damn 7th grade teacher

    • @torros3334
      @torros3334 5 лет назад +2

      OMG SAME

    • @meprimate
      @meprimate 5 лет назад +2

      he is my 7 grade teacher

    • @torros3334
      @torros3334 5 лет назад

      Jim Foster does he make you do graded do nows, exit tickets, and make you answer all questions in SEE format?

  • @charlieanderson8743
    @charlieanderson8743 2 года назад +1

    Hey Ik him

  • @maxcorbett5304
    @maxcorbett5304 6 лет назад +2

    Me Yates is this about Chris torrilie

  • @ange-5961
    @ange-5961 4 года назад +20

    Privilege isn't about what you've gone through. It's about what you haven't had to go through.

    • @ourfatherswar3464
      @ourfatherswar3464 4 года назад +1

      Ange - curious question are you saying we are all privileged? With blacks being slaves and Jews being burned alive ect

    • @petepersimmons7938
      @petepersimmons7938 2 года назад +2

      What have you had to go through?

    • @Sapanator
      @Sapanator 2 года назад +1

      What's your privilege?

    • @LordRykard9376
      @LordRykard9376 Год назад +1

      @@petepersimmons7938 She hasn't had to go through anything.

    • @Jason-zw3ln
      @Jason-zw3ln 5 месяцев назад

      @@Sapanatorme when

  • @Camarosindahood
    @Camarosindahood 2 года назад +5

    I cant imagine the mentality of people that think treating people the same regardless of race is somehow a bad thing, and that doing the opposite will somehow lead to unity.

  • @donjames7971
    @donjames7971 3 года назад

    I recall a gr.8 student telling me he'd be making more than I at 18 pimping a dozen women in a demeaning manner, but disappeared the rest of the year ..

  • @OliverJamesOfc
    @OliverJamesOfc 4 года назад +7

    This video is so important, especially right now 💞

  • @janiquemthompson8724
    @janiquemthompson8724 Год назад

    Bridge the gap

  • @itsoktobehappy461
    @itsoktobehappy461 Год назад

    Who decides who else gets privileges?

  • @nicolepedley8352
    @nicolepedley8352 Год назад +1

    Heard of the term 'othering'?

  • @oliverphippen1957
    @oliverphippen1957 6 лет назад +10

    Privilege is AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ?? How do I get some ??/

    • @cm-gt8cf
      @cm-gt8cf 6 лет назад +2

      Oliver Phippen privilege doesn't need affirmative action period.

    • @Notmynamedontask
      @Notmynamedontask 5 лет назад

      I hope you know why affirmative action? If not, a quick google search can educate you if a ted talk wont :)

    • @jubilantsleep
      @jubilantsleep 4 года назад +1

      Be a white woman

    • @bretmarsh1090
      @bretmarsh1090 4 года назад

      c m burn murder loot

    • @oliverphippen1957
      @oliverphippen1957 4 года назад

      @@cm-gt8cf Then why have it ???????

  • @teenafofeena1567
    @teenafofeena1567 6 лет назад +2

    🔥🔥

  • @JasonSpitzMI50
    @JasonSpitzMI50 3 года назад

    😴💤Are we there yet 😳..😴

  • @konradhaussmann6749
    @konradhaussmann6749 2 года назад +2

    This guy stole my apple pencil once. pretty sure he sold it on facebook marketplace.

  • @yukonfarnsworth1688
    @yukonfarnsworth1688 6 лет назад +4

    Money breeds privilege and that's it.

  • @giticaravan7196
    @giticaravan7196 3 года назад

    Then we earn our privilege or our parents earn them
    !!

  • @amychasen7817
    @amychasen7817 3 года назад +8

    The 'privilege' concept is such rhetorical nonsense. And it's meant to highlight things that other people lack, not even the things held by the people with privilege themselves. Endless explanation is needed around this term. Time to chuck it.

    • @forgetmenot5683
      @forgetmenot5683 3 года назад +10

      Endless explanation is only needed because some people refuse to accept that they are privileged. It's pretty easy to understand with an open mind.

    • @himwhoisnottobenamed5427
      @himwhoisnottobenamed5427 Год назад

      @@forgetmenot5683 And what “privileges” would those be? In your own words.

    • @overheardintherapy
      @overheardintherapy 2 месяца назад

      @@himwhoisnottobenamed5427 hurdles I havent had to jump bc of various parts of self - for me those parts are primarily my whiteness and SES

  • @trueamerican624
    @trueamerican624 6 лет назад +3

    IQ privilege

  • @fernandoocampo1619
    @fernandoocampo1619 Год назад

    You lost me at texas,,,,

  • @walimorris2406
    @walimorris2406 2 года назад

    They should’ve learned this from their parents

  • @williambarabanitz3858
    @williambarabanitz3858 4 года назад +5

    I feel like I've stumbled upon some televangelist or MLM video.

  • @onetwo19
    @onetwo19 5 лет назад +5

    Such a lazy blanketing of a race as all the same. A white man with schizophrenic who has lost everything and is homeless and roams the streets talking to himself does not have privilege. Try spending time and energy getting to know someone of a different color instead of smearing them.

    • @jubilantsleep
      @jubilantsleep 4 года назад +4

      It's not a smear to say people have privilege...everyone has privilege. Some are just born with more than others.

    • @LordRykard9376
      @LordRykard9376 Год назад

      @@jubilantsleep its not because of race.

    • @jubilantsleep
      @jubilantsleep Год назад +2

      @@LordRykard9376 One privilege is definitely because of race. Sorry that hurts your feelings.

    • @LordRykard9376
      @LordRykard9376 Год назад

      @@jubilantsleep Yes, all those white homeless and white Appalachians are super privileged.
      You've been sold a lie sweety.

    • @jubilantsleep
      @jubilantsleep Год назад +1

      @@LordRykard9376 That’s not an argument. The existence of poverty does not disprove the existence of privilege.