Summary of Ted Video

The video that was produced by Ted was very interesting and really focused on the importance of identity. For example someone could be a teacher but it truly matter on there compassion for being a teacher. Brian Simmons the speaker, talked a lot about his own identity and that after a special talk with his grandmother that she has with all of her grandkids but with him it actually affected him, he is 52 years old and has never had a sip of alcohol because his grandmother told him not to in her special talk. He then talks about how racism and how black people still have less rights then rich white people. He talks about a case that he had that a thirteen year old black teenager was being treated like an adult but he stats that the case would be treated differently if it was a older white male. When he talked about this it really made me think that he was right that in many situations people are still racist. I believe he supports his agrument with a lot of power and compassion.