videos to compare & contrast
In my toodling around on the internet today, I came across two different videos talking about the same thing, racism in the US. The first is pretty serious, and contains a lot of charts and statistics, which the second is deliberately irreverent and contains a lot of swearing. But I'd encourage you to watch them both. Speaking for myself, I know this is the kind of content that's going to rattle around in my head for a long time, probably become the sticky information I subconsciously connect with other things I learn down the road, because for me everything starts with striving to understand.
Anyway, they're both embedded under the cut --
This is the one with statistics, an "animated interview" with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates:
And this is the one with the swearing, a segment from the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:
...The fact that we live in a society where both of these things are realities is not a coincidence.
Anyway, they're both embedded under the cut --
This is the one with statistics, an "animated interview" with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates:
Click to viewAnd this is the one with the swearing, a segment from the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:
...The fact that we live in a society where both of these things are realities is not a coincidence.