Race is a fiction. Racism is not: Francys Johnson at TEDxUGA
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- If you had to guess, how much of your life is determined by the color of your skin, your heritage, or your cultural background? Francys Johnson explores the evolution of race relations in America and particularly the south. He challenges us to debunk the fiction that is race and to understand that people matter more.
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One of the few things I'm proud of as a Georgian is this man
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You have something else to be proud of, Fani Willis and Fulton County election workers and officials. Greetings from the blue state of California.
Thank you for carrying forth those beautiful names. Your children will always have an opportunity for conversation. I had to look at when this talk took place 8 years ago, and indeed the politicians are today busy dividing. I would love to hear you speak today.
for everyone complaining about it being contradictory the first racism he is reffering to is our association of ethnicity as race ie. brown is hispanic latino south american central american etc. white is european, scandanavian, baltic, eastern european, etc. You get the idea. hes reffering to it as race not ethnicity because its what we identify with commonly instead of trying to be politically correct and use the term ethnicity and risk confusing people. At least thats what i read into it and it sounds like he definitly understood what hes talking about
i regret checking the comments.
Usually reading comments on anything about an -ism is pretty depressing.
that's going to be the title of my memoir.
Why? Can't handle people debating this guy's opinion?
@@monamonfared7287 And I will buy it and read it.
Great talk. great speaker.
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Wow. Amazing words.
Thank you for Being ❤️
So informative thank you for Powerful speech.
I need to learn from him when presenting and speaking to people. He speaks with such meaning, power and accuracy to know what he is saying.
He literally has the speech pattern and cadence of MLK Jr. Its incredible
Just not the enlightenment of MLK. Race Hustlers are parasites.
What a speaker! Wow!
Powerful!
"Race is legally constructed, socially maintained, politically expedient, and still confers too many economic benefits."
Thank you Sir
Trying to think of a comment to post for the video. But, you already summed up all I can think to say.
Great talk, thanks for uploading!
I agree with most of this talk. But I'm confused when he says "race doesn't exist" ( which I agree) then says"we must confront race". Maybe he meant"confront racism".
He's saying we need to confront our belief in it. In many people's minds, race is a "real" thing still.
Races do exist. They're very distinguishable. Humanity is composed of races.
@@bonsummers2657 that is not science.
“The science of genetics demonstrates that humans cannot be divided into biologically distinct subcategories”; and it “challenges the traditional concept of different races of humans as biologically separate and distinct. This is validated by many decades of research.” In other words, “race itself is a social construct,” with no biological basis.
And the Human Genome Project has confirmed that the genomes found around the globe are 99.9 percent identical in every person. Hence, the very idea of different “races” is nonsense.
@@TheChrisAFigaro it absolutely is science as a matter of both morphology and genetics, which is validated by all of humanity with decades of additional research. You would have to be blind and and basically non-sensory to think otherwise.
99.9 percent is of no bearing on this matter, and it isn't precise nor consistent,… it's up there, and, were also about 98.7% percent similar in the regards you mention with chimps/bonobos. Genetics on a micro scale make a substantial difference on morphology(which is genetics also), and even brain/cultural function.
Understand that interbreeding and clinal populations occur.
@@bonsummers2657 Of course, there are minor differences between various ethnic groups: behavioural, physical, linguistic and so on, and most of those differences are due to one’s culture and experiences. As Einstein observed, “the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment” that people experience during development, by the structure of the society in which they grow up, “by the tradition of that society, and by its appraisal of particular types of behaviour.”
Your arguments seem to be coming from an evolutionist and darwinistic mindset. Please know that that is very dangerous thinking. It's no wonder why evolution started racism.
Geez smh this guy speaks just like MLK, plus he’s from Georgia… that’s crazy
Okay
Excellent!!
Love this talk!
Yidtziak Bagelstein
"you say race doesn't exist, so how can racism exist? checkmate anti-racists"
it exists in the form of ignorant people discriminating on the basis of putting people in categories based on unscientific premises. jesus christ, it's not that hard to understand this
That's what I'm killing myself to explain! x')
Don't kill me, you know if they have a daughter her name will be Harriet or Sojourner✌🏾
UNITE THE AMERICAS.... North, Central and South America !
and he is quite right go to the plant kingdom or the animal kingdom there's animals and there's different species if you're trying to say that someone is different because of their ethnic background for the color of their eyes or hair you're saying that they're a different species I don't think when it came to our history especially from a Biblical Foundation that we were separated as being separate species or all part of the human race human race there isn't different races there's only one just like there's only one canine but there are different breeds but that does not make them a different species from being canine and if a person can't understand that logic that they need to go back to school we're all part of One race the human race and saying anything different is saying that they're of a different species dogs and cats are both animals but they're two totally different species I don't think there's one person out there that you can't turn inside out and be able to recognize them of being anything less than being a human and being of the human race
No, it's about the distinctive groupifferences which are variances of a given species.
Pause for a moment, that human eyes that can love the various types and colours of any dog. But, come to this human race, what has become of US? Dogs lead a better life, good foods, check-up at the vet, a cosy sleeping place, etc.
Thank you for the talk. While racism is obviously a stain on human culture that won’t wash out, to deny the existence of race is to deny reality. I think we can make so much more progress when we recognize truth without injecting our bias. While all races do have a common ancestor, that ancestor likely (with as much knowledge we have today) existed about 400,000 years ago. From that time on, humanoids migrated to various places across the earth without intermingling afterwards. We can tell someone’s race by their appearance, bone structure, DNA, and so much more. And this even helps us discover who is more susceptible to illness, etc.
So while the belief in racial superiority is bad, we still need to acknowledge that we can clearly see with our eyes that race exists. We should remain vigilant of people who might use the knowledge of race and eugenics to take advantage of others and maintain a higher code of ethics and morals.
God bless brother.
Race isnt real
Its not “denying reality”
Human beings are all built the same
All have skeletal structures, nervous systems, organs etc
Skin color has nothing to do with that
Race is nothing but a social construct that the left uses to divide people
What ab mixed people like me… I jus look at everyone as a individual. It’s that easy. Ignore the drama and bs.
Very informative
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DNA and physiology are exactly the same. Culture can be different or the same. Iceman inheritance?? Really??? Just shows how uninformed you are.
He's right. Problem is nobody's listening. That lie has been set too deep.
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"Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free."
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Culture is just the fenotype of a population.
Iq is genetic like everything else.
There will always be deviants and outliers.
Haplogroup is a better term than race.
Plato described this 2500 years ago in the myth of the metals
Crime is not a result of poverty, its a result of RELATIV poverty.
Mixing groups with large diffrence in iq creates RELATIV poverty and political polarisation.
Go ahead and tell it like it is
Amen
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GOD, whom we have to answer to when this is all over, will not be concern about what race you are, but have you treated that brother or sister, no matter what color, like HE has treated us with mercy, grace, and Love no matter how they treated you. The human race is what matters, and this is HIS concern; can we live in harmony with one another and work together to make a community that is focused on one thing, LOVE. The only way this will happen is that we follow the Master of Love, Jesus. We have to see things from His perspective, because the human race was made by Him and for Him, so the way to get the answers to racism is to get to know the architect of the human race which created us out of his Love.
Amen - and "He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth"..... and "Eve is the mother of all living..."
You need to differentiate what exists really but exists only in our minds and not in reality ( religion, race, superstitions, etc.) from what exists in reality (our actions and what we do). So, if I belief you are a witch-woman, it is a fiction because a witch in reality does not exist. But if I kill you (from thinking of you being dangerous due to my perception of you as a witch), that becomes part of reality. Killing is real, discrimination is real - those are all actions that take place in reality. But what ridiculous and unreal thoughts go on in our heads is really nothing but imagination. The most important thing to do is not let our imagination lead to actual violence and killing. Imagination, even if negative, should be left within the realm of 'freedom of thought' but never let go outside of our minds to the means of violence or other physical harm.
Nonsense this is just the new secular religion of the post-1945 West in the same way that there are differences in between tigers and lions orangutans and chimpanzees red squirrels and grey squirrels Dobermans and chihuahuas there are differences in the human species call it race or phenotype or whatever you like but it's there and it is distinct and unique. Being a Native American is not a social contract and neither is being anything else those people deserve the dignity and Humanity of being preserved
I can say the same thing but in a much more brief way:
Religion is a social construct (fiction that exists in people's minds but not in reality). Indeed, religion is fiction. But religious intolerance is not. Gender is fiction, but genderism is not. Race is fiction, but racism is not.
To summarise, our beleifs and ideas are all fiction, but our actions (arising out of those ideas and beleifs) are not fiction.
Everything you said is fiction. You have an IQ of about 70 if you are lucky.
See if you can answer this question (no one ever does or can), and if you can't you must think very carefully, even if it hurts (as it probably will) until you can see where your statement is impossible. Are you ready? How can there be 'racism'.. if there is no such thing as 'race'?
Race is real. It's the differences between us as man like color and bone structures etc.
Nope!
Race is a social construct in science humans are just one no different races but different phenotypes which can vary in your own family too so yes race isn’t real.
@@mohammadgm8463 Rubbish, there are genetic differences between the races which is why African people are more susceptible to sickle cell anemia and Tay-Sachs disease is more likely to occur among people of Ashkenazi (eastern and central European) Jewish or French. What you are trying to gaslight people into believing is that any difference we see between a lion or a pet cat are an illusion, if that's the case then I dare you to walk up to a lion and sit next to it.
The only reason that anyone to believe this is theory is to ignore the facts. Maybe someone can theorize what to call these scholars.
Being tall or smarter than other races doesn't mean you are superior, maybe you could say it if "superiority" weren't so used by racists and kkk members. Besides it isn't really as reliable, the total mean of intelligence for "asians" is higher than all races but that is mostly thanks to their cultures being so intellect driven than race. Also the asians have more geniuses per capita since they make 1/3 of the world population, plus Usain bolt may be smart but other Africans who have been more away from africa the habitat speed is necessary may be slower than other whites. Some are better than others but thats just what makes the human race greater than any other beings.
@@gin3868 Yes, you are right Gin. Your culture sure can set the pace of your life. Africa has a slow easy going pace of life, Asian is tense and uptight while America is on a fast track going nowhere and everywhere at the same time. I am an American and people moving here from other countries get overwhelmed a lot of the time. But they soon learn to speed up a bit or get crushed in the fray. I have had 9 high school exchange students, had one child from Russia live with us from healing the children, always made it my business to welcome foreign people to our community and be their for them when they need help. I also helped one college student from China. So much fun learning about their culture. It's the next best thing to traveling that I can think of!!!
Race is a thing and there are genetic differences in some people. That is just part of evolution
But they're on a gradient and all differences in traits are not dependent on one another. They are also on a spectrum and have a gradient.
This relatively new concept of "races" is a social construct with no scientific basis.
So if races don't exist then neither does racism, since one is correlated to the other. Shouldn't "racism" be instead called "hatred", since we are all "the same"?
Seth Keenan Racism exists despite the fact that race is a social political construction because people have BEhaved as though it exists for 400 years. Racism doesn't have to mean hatred because racism is about systems that privilege white people and disadvantage people of color. No, we are not all the "same." We are of different ethnicities, colors, genders, gender identities, backgrounds, cultures…
***** I see Cultural Marxism has indoctrinated you well.
Seth Keenan I think he is making an academic move here. There is obvious racial prejudice in our society. The thing is, there is no basis to claim that the social construction of "race" creates any of the differences that are the basis for the prejudice. It is much like the famous Blue Eye Brown Eye experiments. There is no real difference between those with blue eyes and those with brown eyes. Still, immense prejudices developed. The prejudice exists without any basis. Both are true - racism exists without any biological basis for the concept of race. There is no contradiction.
+Yidtziak Bagelstein Discrimination exists though you can't deny that. Racism is the discrimination of skin colour.
***** Not exactly, racism denotes "race", not skin color. Shouldn't that be called "colorism"? "Colorfobic"?
Why is it that people try to say race isn't real?
Of course its real! Its just not important is all.
People say that race isn't real because it isn't. There is no scientific basis for the categorization of human beings beyond the species - homo sapiens.
Because liberals would like to say that everyone is not only equal but the same. Next they will have a "study" showing that men and women are exactly physically the same, except for a few cosmetic differences. In fact, often women are stronger physically then men of the same age and fitness level. Its amazing what the "right" study can say. The fact that people of one race score 15 points lower in IQ tests then another race never happened either….
+Marie Payne Which is why genetic sequencing can easily tell the races apart.
Races do not exist. Genetic sequencing can determine ethnicity.
Liberals and conservatives are two sides of the same coin. Divide and conquer is the real rationale for the creation of the social construct called 'races.'
when it comes to the subject of being suppressed because of one's beliefs if we don't think that we don't have freedom in this country regardless of our background and all the people that fought and died for that that wouldn't tolerate it take these arguments that these people think that are so indignant to South America Africa Poland China and see how much Freedom that we really do have that we're not content with yes these things happened trying to say that they didn't would be insane and trying to change them would be insane also but if you're going to talk about the repression of a person because of their beliefs or because of their background take it to another country and see how far you get and I hope that they're included not just based on one particular ethnic background people throughout time have suffered and we still are if a person doesn't think that there isn't freedom in this country try to have these discussions and any of the countries I've mentioned before and see how free you really are and you should be satisfied with it and grateful for those all of those that died captive or free that paid the price for it in one of the owlet to stand
More freedom, we are not asking for it we takin' it by force . Like it or not .
Daniel Saari, I know it is easier to not have to put in capital letters and periods in your sentences. And that's ok if you are on your Facebook group or talking with friends. But it's not ok when you are speaking on a public forum like this. Please respect the rules and practice does make it easier.
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What's so funny Moshe?? I think an older Jewish man would be more respectful than to put a bunch of Ha Ha's in the comment section. So I say you are a fake, a fraud, a liar and a Russian bot.
I think he forgot that his son was real and not a hypothetical, he has zero chance of dying in infancy... already having lived through it
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Yes, he is.
So are you 😁
You said there is no such thing as race. Now you want to confront racism. Why don't you talk more about the human race.
? What do you mean?
This dude is a cry baby period. Free markets are the only way to combat wage discrimination
STFU!
Free markets are also the only way to give billionaires the ability to abuse their workers and destroy the environment.
Religion is a social construct (fiction that exists in people's minds but not in reality). Yes, indeed religion is fiction. But religious intolerance is not fiction. Gender is fiction, but genderism is not. To summarise, our beleifs and ideas are all fiction, but our actions (arising out of those ideas and beleifs) are not fiction.
What an ldlot you are. Anyone can be any religion/superstition or change it. Not so with Race. The speaker is Not Asian or Caucasian, nor can he change his race.
I think a better word to use would be "abstract" rather than "fiction." Ideas and ideologies may not be physical things that occupy time and space that can be acted upon, but that does not make them any less real than physical objects.
It takes this man five minutes of recap before he even states his point and then two minutes later he concludes that any and all differences between arbitrarily decided groups can be explained through racism. He then goes on to make the often parroted argument from statistics claiming that the race of his children affect them because people that look like them are in poor situations. He then repeats his faulty argument that because all races are essentially the same any differences in outcome can be attributed to racism. He makes logically fallacious arguments (genetic fallacy) from statistics for a second time while theorizing about his children’s future opportunity. He then concludes from his theorizing that racism is incentivized financially and politically and is socially maintained. He makes this statement without sound evidence, or any evidence that he didn’t presuppose, and expects to be taken seriously in our world where the mere suggestion of racism is a cause for public outcry or even rioting. He then talks about how the NAACP is a bastion for racial equality and common sense while ignoring the fact that it exists for the sole purpose of promoting all races except one. He then talks about a project in which Black students helped illegal aliens learn their native languages respectively and then proclaims the beauty of how people are coming together while skimming over the apparent exclusion of all Non-Blacks and then comparing all their progress to that of White people. This would indicate either that he uses White people as a default or a standard (which I doubt) or that he is measuring the progress of the project by how much they could outdo White people both of these scenarios are racist and he should know that fully.
He conflates the terms predominant with supreme making simple demographic marketing into that of “privilege”. White Privilege no less, not that the race specifics really matter because the concept is based on the genetic fallacy that because a group has a feature in common that they must share others.
He goes on to talk about struggle and progress despite the fact that he is struggling like a fish trying to climb a ladder; it makes no sense, helps noone and ultimately he looks ridiculous.
Really your brain is not working very well . An African American talk to you in English ( which is not real language) but you can't understand. You are a lost cause .
He only gets to speak for 15 minutes. You can't always give sound evidence in a 15 minute speech. The white race has no need for the NAACP, because the white race is the race doing all the battering of the darker races. He did not skim over and he is not trying to outdo white people. He did not once say the word genetic nor did he allude to any generic trait. And are not all men and women who have ambition struggling like a fish to climb a ladder to better themselves? Does not matter what color your skin is. You look and sound ridiculous with your comint. And now we all know who the true racists is. It's you.
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Race is Real. Science is Real.! We are not all the same..! 👈👌
He didn't say we're all the same, though. He said race isn't real.
@Eros Delorenzi They can't. That science has been summarily debunked. You all love holding on to things like that. Any reason to believe you're superior without having to put in the work.
Eros Delorenzi ? That has nothing to do with race as a biological concept. Phenotypes are 0.001 percent of the entire human genome. It’s a physiological concept not a biological one. All humans share 99.9 percent of our dna with eachother, that 0.01 percent is shared genealogy due to geological isolation. Not a biological one. You should probably crack open a biology book
@@jubilantsleep Of course race is real, there are genetic differences between the races which is why African people are more susceptible to sickle cell anemia and Tay-Sachs disease is more likely to occur among people of Ashkenazi (eastern and central European) Jewish or French. But let me guess, you only start bringing science into it when it agrees with your own opinions and beliefs.
Nobody is the same, that doesn't make everyone his own "race". Skin Color, eye shape and lip shape are all on a spectrum and can independently vary between people without any sharp line inbetween.
Another talk about racism,race
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Race is a biological reality
And water is dry and blue is pink.
@@nycbearff No water isn't dry and blue is not pink but race is a biological reality, it's called science.
False. It's a social construct to put humans into boxes, based on differences in some physical characteristics that are one a gradient.
Most victim olympics jargon.
More like truth.
Each race has a different average IQ. Race exists, it is biological. Nice try.
Ah.. Seteroptype threat and GCSE results..
Nope.. Seteroptype threat and GCSE results..
Look up the Human Genome project. They researched the entire human genome. We are all one.
Stereotypical ideas taught as "scientific fact" is what you are referring to. You are what is wrong with the country!
+Fig Towers
True. We are all one.