Name: 【TED】Reniqua Allen: The story we tell about millennials -- and who we leave out (The story we tell about millennials -- and who we leave out | Reniqua Allen)
Uploaded: 2019-07-29T13:27:23.000Z
Duration: 11 min 29 s
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Troy is the kind of millennial that think pieces are made of.

and convinced that he is smarter than people give him credit for.

His favorite topics of conversation are girls, sneakers and cars --

not a surprise for someone who was a teenager just a few years ago.

they reveal the patterns of someone who is scared,

Now Troy also embodies the many positive qualities

and has tried gigs in both the licit and underground economies,

he had been employed as a golf caddy at a local country club,

who often never even acknowledged his existence.

Before that, he sold sneakers on Facebook.

He even tried selling candy bars and water bottles,

but he wasn't making enough money to help his parents out

So Troy saw how hard his immigrant mother from Jamaica worked

and right now, he's trying to figure out his next steps.

quick money, at least for a while, gives young men and women like him

though he said he mainly did it because he wanted stability.

is that he still believes in the American dream.

Now, I don't know if Troy's dreams came true.

He disappeared from the program for troubled youth that he was involved in

Troy was happy that someone listened to his dreams

when I think of the reality that so many young, black millennials face

that so many black millennials have to endure

in a world that tells them they can anything they want to be

but actually doesn't sit down to listen to their dreams

And we really need to listen to this generation

if we hope to have a healthy and civil society going forward,

they make up a fair chunk of the US and the world population.

a group that is often labeled as entitled, lazy, overeducated,

the conversations often swirl around avocado toast,

overpriced lattes and fancy jobs abroad --

you probably have heard all these things before.

Actress Lena Dunham may be the media's representation

but Troy and other voices like his are also part of the story.

In fact, millennials are the largest and most diverse adult population

44 percent of all American millennials are nonwhite,

but often, you wouldn't even know it at all.

Now sure, there are similarities within this population

Perhaps many of us do love avocado toast and lattes --

often between millennials of color and white millennials.

it seems as though we're virtually living in different worlds.

a group that I have researched for a book I recently wrote,

are the perfect example of the blind spot that we have

we get ID'd more at voter registration booths,

we have higher numbers of unemployment --

even when we do go to college, I should say --

【TED】Reniqua Allen: The story we tell about millennials -- and who we leave out (The story we tell about millennials -- and who we leave out | Reniqua Allen)

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【TED】Reniqua Allen: The story we tell about millennials -- and who we leave out (The story we tell about millennials -- and who we leave out | Reniqua Allen)

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