Tokenized: They Wouldn't Let Her Speak

less than 1m read

·Nov 7, 2024

If I do not show up one day, you're going to scan the room and go, "Where's the black girl at?" Like, you're going to know I'm not there. So I have to be 100% on my game all the time.

I couldn't reconcile the fact that I am 100% ready for this. I'm not allowed to speak to media; I'm not allowed to speak in the house; I'm not being sent anywhere.

What kind of trick does that play on your mind? What does that do to the mind of a person when they know that the only thing that they're there for is, like, oh my God, look at this, I'm black and, oh my God, look at these, I'm a woman?

Now you're in a position where you have to decide whether there's something wrong with you—and there might be, who knows, right?—and that you're not up to scratch for the role and you're being sidelined because of your incompetence.

Or you have to decide that there's something seriously rotten behind the stage at the wonderful world of Oz and whether the people pulling the strings behind the scenes are just not exactly who they should be.

What Women in China Want | Podcast | Overheard at National Geographic

Epictetus’ Art of Winning in All Circumstances (Stoicism)

View All

Marvels of an Arctic Winter | America's National Parks

As the months of winter pass, only the heartiest of creatures will be able to survive out in the open, seemingly resigned to their fate. But under the tundra, some creatures are pulling off a small biological miracle. The hibernating ground squirrel’s bod…

Remembering the Battle of Mogadishu | No Man Left Behind

My role in that battle was a team leader with one of the platoons that went in on the air assault. I went and originally on the helicopters. When you make it out of something where others didn’t, you’re going to spend the rest of your life thanking the pe…

Wild Life | Official Trailer | National Geographic

In the very beginning, Doug and I were living in the middle of this paradise, and we said it would be incredible to save this place, just save it. Doug and Chris, you would see them together, and it was like teenage kids; he was very charming. I thought, …

Khan Academy Ed Talks with Fenesha Hubbard - Thursday, September 2

Hello and welcome to Ed Talks with Khan Academy! I am excited today to be talking to Phoenicia Hubbard, who is with NWEA, one of our partner organizations that we’ll talk more about in a minute. She is the Professional Learning Design Coordinator, so I’m …

Who Invented the Internet? And Why?

So, have you ever wondered who actually invented the internet? Some people have become zillionaires thanks to the internet. But all they did was invent clever ways of using the internet. So the person who “invented the internet” should be a gazillionaire …

Perverted Analogy Fallacy: look out for it.

So a person might make a claim like, “Uh, taxation is just because those being taxed have given, uh, implicit consent by continuing to live in a territory which is subject to the tax.” Um, and you’d like to get them to examine whether or not this idea of…

Tokenized: They Wouldn't Let Her Speak

More Articles