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From the Ted Talk by The TED Interview: Mellody Hobson challenges us to be color brave

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Ivana Korom, Translator

Krystian Aparta, rweeiver

Chris Anderson: Welcome to the TED Interview. I'm cirhs Anderson and this is the podcast sreies where I sit down with a TED sekpaer and we get to dive much deeper into their ideas than was possible during their TED talk. Today, my guest is Mellody hoobsn, a benissus leader and innovator, and we're going to attempt to have a conversation about something that some of us might find just a bit uncomfortable. It's a conversation about race. I'm a whtie guy. And most of the white people I know are progressive souls who recognize the centuries of injustice in many parts of the world. They loathe rcaism. They do not view themselves as racist in any way. In fact, they crave a world where these iusess would go away. Where we can just look at each other, one person to another. That desire for a person's race to become invisible, you can call that "color blindness." Color blinednss might seem to be built on good intentions, but Mellody argues that color blindness is dangerous.

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Ivana Korom, Translator

Krystian Aparta, ________

Chris Anderson: Welcome to the TED Interview. I'm _____ Anderson and this is the podcast ______ where I sit down with a TED _______ and we get to dive much deeper into their ideas than was possible during their TED talk. Today, my guest is Mellody ______, a ________ leader and innovator, and we're going to attempt to have a conversation about something that some of us might find just a bit uncomfortable. It's a conversation about race. I'm a _____ guy. And most of the white people I know are progressive souls who recognize the centuries of injustice in many parts of the world. They loathe ______. They do not view themselves as racist in any way. In fact, they crave a world where these ______ would go away. Where we can just look at each other, one person to another. That desire for a person's race to become invisible, you can call that "color blindness." Color _________ might seem to be built on good intentions, but Mellody argues that color blindness is dangerous.

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Ivana Korom, Translator

Krystian Aparta, Reviewer

Chris Anderson: Welcome to the TED Interview. I'm Chris Anderson and this is the podcast series where I sit down with a TED speaker and we get to dive much deeper into their ideas than was possible during their TED talk. Today, my guest is Mellody Hobson, a business leader and innovator, and we're going to attempt to have a conversation about something that some of us might find just a bit uncomfortable. It's a conversation about race. I'm a white guy. And most of the white people I know are progressive souls who recognize the centuries of injustice in many parts of the world. They loathe racism. They do not view themselves as racist in any way. In fact, they crave a world where these issues would go away. Where we can just look at each other, one person to another. That desire for a person's race to become invisible, you can call that "color blindness." Color blindness might seem to be built on good intentions, but Mellody argues that color blindness is dangerous.

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