TED Talks: Ideas Worth… Spreading?

Coleman Hughes giving his TED Talk, “A Case for Color Blindness,” posted July 28 

On Saturday, I introduced you to Coleman Hughes, an up-and-coming Black Conservative whose TED Talk, in which he defended “color blindness,” I recommended. When Hughes discovered that there had been internal dissent over whether his talk should have been posted online, he published an essay in The Free Press titled “Why Is TED Scared of Color Blindness?” The next day, The Free Press published two of the many responses elicited by the essay – one from the head of TED and one from a prominent social scientist who was against the posting.

Click here to read their arguments.

And click here to listen to a debate between Coleman Hughes and Jamelle Bouie, an opinion columnist for the NYT, titled “Does Color Blindness Perpetuate Racism?”