{"id":53047,"date":"2017-03-29T01:17:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T01:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53047"},"modified":"2017-03-29T01:17:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T01:17:35","slug":"rachel-dolezals-tedx-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53047","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Dolezal\u2019s TEDx Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/rachel-dolezals-tedx-talk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Rachel Dolezal\u2019s TEDx Talk<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\" target=\"_blank\">TED Blog<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TED<\/a> (Technology, Entertainment, and Design)<br \/>\n2016-11-02<\/p>\n<p><strong>The TED Editors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In April 2016, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rachel_Dolezal\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Dolezal<\/a> spoke at an independently organized <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TED_(conference)#TEDx\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx<\/a> event held at a university. As you may know, Ms. Dolezal is a former president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/naacpspokane.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">NAACP\u2019s Spokane<\/a> chapter who sparked a national debate and resigned after the public discovered that she was a white woman identifying herself as a black woman.<\/p>\n<p>Recently she announced on TV that she had recorded \u201ca TED Talk.\u201d Some of you were upset by this. Indeed, the news surprised us too, because we knew she hadn\u2019t spoken at a TED event. But it turned out she had spoken at one of the thousands of TEDx events that are held around the world.<\/p>\n<p>TEDx organizers host events independent of TED, and they have the freedom to invite speakers they feel are relevant to their communities. These volunteers find thousands of new voices all over the world \u2014 many of which would not otherwise be heard \u2014 including some of our most beloved, well-known speakers, people like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bren%C3%A9_Brown\" target=\"_blank\">Brene Brown<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simon_Sinek\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Sinek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What TEDx organizers have achieved collectively\u00a0is remarkable.\u00a0But, yes, some of them occasionally share ideas we don\u2019t stand behind&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire letter and watch the talk <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/rachel-dolezals-tedx-talk\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What TEDx organizers have achieved collectively\u00a0is remarkable.\u00a0But, yes, some of them occasionally share ideas we don\u2019t stand behind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,20,842],"tags":[20241,19985,26707],"class_list":["post-53047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-ted","tag-ted-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53048,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53047\/revisions\/53048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}