White people in white towns (video)

Rich Benjamin (TED, Summer 2015); Crystal Quintero, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

 

My road trip through whitest towns in US

Goebbels: "Keep things stirred up and boiling"

As North America becomes more and more multicultural, Rich Benjamin noticed that some communities are actually getting less diverse. So he took out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA -- and moved in. In this funny, honest, and very human TED talk, he shares what he learned as a black man in Whitetopia.

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