TEDxTALK: What is Race?

racism is an unethical stereotype that causes oppression and depression

and is unhealthy for everyone in the world is the

belief that one belongs to a race that is better

than another or other races.

This is called racism and it has been with us

for a long time now.

What is racism exactly?

Well, according to google, it is prejudice, discrimination or antagonism

directed against a person or people on the basis of

their membership in a particular racial or ethnic?

Great. Typically one that is a minority or marginalized.

The only reason why it is even it even exists

is because of the term race and racial categorizing.

1st Kim race and racial categorizing thinking racism.

Mm I'm lydia Thompson and I'm going to talk about

why racism even exists and the true definition of my

father is white.

My mother is black and I'm great.

Okay, well not great.

Obviously not correct.

My skin is clearly not gray.

Why not them?

I mean if you think about it, when you mix

black and white together, you get right right.

I'm like a tanner beige.

A light tanner page.

What does this mean about my parents then?

Is my father's skin really white and my mother's getting

really black.

My parents are seen as different races by the world

only through their appearance.

Why? And why are my parents identified by society received

the words black or white when they're really not, which

color would I be?

And where do I think let's recall where the idea

of racial categorizing came from During the 16th through 19th

century racial categorizing was based on nations and ethnic groups.

So at the time it wasn't associated with appearances A

little later.

However, in the mid 19th century it was based on

physical anthropology, A european physician, zoologist and taxonomists.

Carl linnaeus, the father of taxonomy, created the taxonomic system

known as binomial non click drug to classify the natural

world. He used this system to promote ill judged theories

concerning human variations.

There is that named and classified people into different species

according to shared characteristics and the way they looked.

These very super scientific theories later led to scientific racism.

This was the idea that there was an existence of

empirical evidence that supported or justified racism.

It was invented by johan frederik Blumen box.

This idea was also called biological racism.

As the racing racial categorizing categorization were biologically true.

As a mankind with specific only visual physical characteristics were

distinctly different species from each other with completely different genetic

makeup and DNA from each other.

Scientific racism, assuming genetic differences, promoted racial superiority or inferiority.

The idea that there is a ranking of races from

least most important race is over races.

Scientists have proven that we all share 99.9% of our

genomic genetic makeup.

While only 0.1% to 0.2% distinguishes somewhat distinctive communication and

physical features.

Yes, we are more related than we think we do

actually share the same ancestors.

So in biology There are rungs in a DNA molecules

that are made up of four base pairs.

This is this is where the genetic information is stored

for every wrong.

There's one base pair.

These base pairs are called adenosine, dining guanine and cytosine.

They're what form each of our genetic code individually.

So we all have different patterns of these base pairs,

which makes us who we are.

So we all have our own unique.

We have Six billion of these base parents, 46 chromosomes

and 37.2 trillion cells in our DNA structure all over

in our bodies.

Overall, We are 100 human with so much information in

our DNA.

We still have to identify ourselves As one distinct race

just because we look different from each other doesn't mean

we're biologically different.

Like we're all separate aliens who came from different planets.

Led by the scientific racism.

Race is really an idea that was socially formed and

it continues to define categories of people inadequately into groups

based on physical characteristics.

It has become an extremely fundamental term used in society

over many years since it was invented to the present

day, it's surrounded by an ideology with a set of

ideas that define racial differences whether real or imagined as

the hierarchy or minority.

Either hierarchy.

For minority, the ideology was used during slavery and it

continues to be used and spread throughout the world to

oppress even with a supposed, but then a supposed racial

group, It is used the same way an example of

that would be Colorism.

The race that is seen as hierarchy or at the

top are those who are considered white and the one

at the bottom seen as minority are those who are

considered black.

Others are other races are in between.

What if it were the opposite?

No black hierarchy.

What Nordine, no matter what the whole idea, he's unethical

and unscientific.

Doesn't matter what, what's on the outside.

But what's on the inside?

The ideology of race has been so instilled in our

minds that we assume that if someone looks a certain

way they must belong to and act like a group

or act a certain way.

Could it have been the opposite?

Yes. If race and the concept of it were invented

or brought up by say, people living in africa, they

would have used it the same way those in slavery

may have been those considered right, those from europe, no

matter where it came from or who came up with

it, it would have been used just the same.

And the concept would be wrong.

Nonetheless, There has been a census of racial categorizing around

for two, about 230 years organized by the Office of

Management and Budget.

Now this census has been changing over time In 1917

90, We had a census of three races, 1950, it

changes six races including other races.

Today, There are multiple races, but there are only five

major races on the census board.

It's a concept made for separating human beings and putting

them in boxes, Which still continues in the 21st century.

These are really just names, not racist.

They were first names for countries, then they were used

to identify and name people my with my father being

considered white and my mother being considered black.

What would I be considered as And yeah, I've been

called either white black or person of color by some

people, but to categorize me since I shared to suppose

that graces the phrase mixed race where multiracial was made

up. People such as Lena horne, Katherine johnson um Katherine

johnson er Shahidi is India making more.

They're all considered biracial though they are given the name

mixed or they're considered mixed.

They are still pushed into identifying themselves through politics and

the standards of society as one race.

Black, white american, indian, asian american and so on quote

by hospital, she said when I was little, if someone

saw me and my dad walking through like a grocery

store parking lot, woman would come up to us and

be like, sweetie, are you okay?

Because they saw a little white girl walking with a

black man, she continued, maybe people won't accept that I'm

half black, but they could be not accepting me because

I am and that's much worse.

Lenny Kravitz says um a boy approached him and his

dad um and he, the boy yelled, your father is

white and it says, I didn't understand what that was

about and why that was an issue.

That was the first day that I had to think

about it.

It just let me know.

Okay, that's how folks think.

This is how folks think so.

So racial categorizing is really a concept constructed for the

purpose of social and political reasons.

It has no factual foundation in any field of biology,

having nothing to do with genetics and DNA that has

already been proven.

Once race was made up, what does mean a thing

or problem or was invented.

It was used to categorize human beings than scientific racism

was made out by blue and bach.

And the whole idea sort of dragged on from there,

which is why race is kind of a well, very

uncomfortable topic.

Even though blue inbox including linnaeus is there is, we're

proven wrong.

We still kept the idea of race hierarchy and minority

racial categorizing is what keeps the world separated.

It is a powerful concept that has become normal, but

not scientifically true, reasonable.

It is one of the sole reasons why we have

wars, why the, why the holocaust happened, why slavery happened.

Well, depression happened many times throughout history and still happens.

This social practice sets the idea in our minds that

because someone looks a certain way, they must be from

a certain country.

No one's in the characteristics of that country or share

the same ethnicity of the country.

Racial distinctions, our only socially constructed and developed over time

many years.

Social perceptions of religion, language, family structures or physical or

mental challenges also take a long time to develop.

They are practiced and learned.

Human behaviors, not genetic traits.

Main cause of viruses, um, still even exist is because

race, the ideology of race and the concept of racial

dividing still exists.

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