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Privilege Means Just Having Two Good Choices | Xavier Ramey | TEDxChicago

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Xavier Ramey helps organizations shift their cultural and engagement strategies to increase diversity and socioeconomic equity. A native of the North Lawndale community, he shows us Chicago through his eyes and offers real solutions to poverty, crime, and racism if we can honestly examine the impact of our individual life decisions. Xavier is the founder of Justice Informed, a new firm based in Chicago that consults with businesses, nonprofits, churches, and foundations to benchmark, catalyze, and shift their cultural and engagement strategies to increase diversity and socioeconomic equity by leveraging accountable partnerships informed with on-the-ground leaders. A native Chicagoan, by way of the North Lawndale community, he is a recognizable voice and writer on the topics of community and economic development, American culture and history, policing and policy violence, and connecting principles of spiritual faith to our lived human experience. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

11 Comments

@sasmelkev 5 years ago

He spoke to us today. Ver admirable

@womenwhodarellc5732 8 years ago

“Yes, Paul Ramey has this incredible, incredible son.” Well done Xavier Ramey!

@williamndavi8606 6 years ago

That red line exists in so many of our cities.Met him in the month of June 2012 in Nairobi,Kenya. Witty with two left feet. Great dude. May God watch over the city of Chicago during these terrible times....we will prevail

@kyraocity 7 years ago

Brilliant talk!! Power and compassion in a unique voice organizing knowledge for true justice and peace!

@AnneHeaton 6 years ago

Thank you Xavier.

@latinovoicedonreggie 3 years ago

Nice

@yvettemoyo5954 3 years ago

“It’s the best time to be an African American and I am still afraid of the police.”

@miahipop987 7 years ago

I am from a former communist country and I watching for some time videos about privilege. First of all I think you are privileged for living in USA. Do you think live is difficult? What about living in a country where the minimum salary is 4-5 dollars per hour?

Second regarding this video I and my colleagues were privileged in one area. We have school choice and tough exams. As an idea American SAT is at the level of smart 8th grade children.

@jamespossible2601 2 years ago

an "imported people" not "immigrants." ...THIS!!!

@AnneHeaton 6 years ago

oh man, the paul ryan picture and the fact they are millenials. poignant.

@bonniebabyboo3095 7 years ago

I find the speaker "pompous," being self indulged. Great he made it but, he did not do it alone, some of those "priviledged" had exteneded hands to his success, else where the funds come from? Too, to be successful in the world ones must be literate to the monopoly of economics which is mastered by the "so-called" priviledged.

The white individual moved into the speaker's crime ridden neighborhood, having brought friends, does not mean he did so to "connect or intergrate" with the inhabitants. Such crime riddled neighborhoods property value depreciates to being pennies on the dollar. Bringing in friends was their strategy to monopolize on swaggered property values, eventually being raised by the newcomers, resulting in gentrification: forcing out the poor and oppressed for the more desired middle-class.

Segregation is actually "forced" on those seeking stable communities lacking in criminal activities. For some unknown reason, blacks allow their communities and properties to depeciate. They "allow" their children to take over their neighborhoods and schools. Perhaps TEDx Talks will have a speaker to address this "reason."

I find this speaker "blaming" some others for segregation whereby "any," regardless of race, also having "priviledge," would segregate selves from war zone communities.