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Thriving as an Outsider | Naeemah Elias | TEDxRoxbury
TEDx Talks· 2025-06-16 15:10
[Applause] I was attacked as an eight-year-old because I talked like a white girl. My family had just moved to a new town and one day after school, a kid grabbed me, spun me around, and scratched my face. She nearly took my left eye.This is my earliest memory of feeling like an outsider. So, code switching and roleplaying became my early survival tools. I copied how the popular kids talked and how they acted cuz my young brain decided that I needed to fit in to survive.I want you to think about a time when ...
Long Island's Secret Sauce
Alex Kantrowitz· 2025-06-15 14:01
Something about the water on Long Island that makes everybody crazy. So, I'll I'll evaluate you at the end of this and I'll determine if you're as nuts as the rest of us. We're close to New York City, but we're not quite in New York City.So, we know we have access to the show, but we know we're not part of it, and that makes us angry. Is that your Long Island. I don't see you that way already.You're giving off a vibe of a comfortable outsider. So, there are uncomfortable outsiders that are angry, but then t ...