The lie that invented racism | John Biewen

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To understand and eradicate racist thinking, start at the beginning. That's what journalist and documentarian John Biewen did, leading to a trove of surprising and thought-provoking information on the "origins" of race. He shares his findings, supplying answers to fundamental questions about racism — and lays out an exemplary path for practicing effective allyship.

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52 Comments on The lie that invented racism | John Biewen

  1. Trading right now will be at the of every wise individual’s list. In 2years you’ll be ecstatic with the decision you made today

    • You chose a wrong video for this comment ,the word trading left me so confused before i figured out that y’all are bots.

    • @Shantanu Thakare
      Its best to Report these bots as spam whenever you see them.
      The report button is with the reply button, in case someone doesnt know.

    • @Wisdom Francis And a big chance that you won’t be able to make the choice of what to buy. You will have to be obedient or they will take your fake digital money away from you. Trading is the best way to do business, not with money.

  2. If you think something is messed up and wrong, 9/10ths of the time follow the money and you will find out its just people trying to exploit other people. Always follow the money.

    • @Joshua Jamison “Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.” -Ayn Rand

      Racism can be overcome.. but not if we continue to identity with our unchosen differences instead of unite around chosen similarities. Racism ultimately stems from fear of the unknown and lack of trust in our own selves. Determinism and a lack of understanding of free will leads a person to jump to conclusions about another individual.. and make irrational judgements of that person based on characteristics such as skin color or biological lineage etc. #Objectivism is the only moral philosophy I’ve found yet that actually defends all individuals, regardless of supposed “race.”

    • @Brad Becker I mean no disrespect when I say this but you can’t open with insulting someone by calling them “Sherlock” which is colloquially known as an insult of intelligence, then arguing I am misleading by being vague when the very sentence is vague about whether I’m intentionally doing so or unintentionally doing so. While espousing self-interest and then trying to take the moral high ground.
      And then say its “nothing personal” and try to hide behind loved ones like a victim.

      I’m not an anti-capitalist or a pro-capitalist. I only even responded to your comment on the simple principle suspecting that you where trolling and/or sealioning and/or piggybacking off my comment so as to push you own personal agenda.

      In fact the only reason I am responding now, is simply so that anyone looking at our conversion who has half a brain cell can come to a reasonable conclusion. So feel feel free to point out logical incongruecies, grammar errors, and philosophical divides but be aware I only replied to draw attention to this:

      Noone knows who we are. We could both be trolls. Bots. But I dont like people hijacking my stuff and acting rude simply to make points they could have just made on the actual post.

  3. Let’s talk about Race baby

    Let’s talk about you and me

    Let’s talk about all the good things and the bad things.

    Let’s talk about Race.

  4. Cabe-nos a nós humanos quebrar essa forma de olhar para as pessoas, e passar-mos a olhar de forma igualitária em todos os sentidos.

  5. Come to India to see all sorts of discrimination, with their extensive applications.
    In here, children are deliberately trained to resort to discriminatory behavior at their homes.

    • @Debra Lynn Paxton
      A bit like 1 in 4 children growing up in poverty back in the US. And its just… Accepted as normal. Clawing yourself out of absolute depravity is just part of the american dreeeeeeam.

      Every time I go to the US, there is always somebody that comes up to me and it seems everybody has a story. As if they are rehearsing to play the lead role in the movie about their own lives. -Whats your story, they say. Then they proceed to tell me how they came up from absolute rock bottom poverty without access to healthcare, proper education or housing. And then they say stuff like “And now I make six figures, six figures, man” With such PRIDE. And how blessed they are for having come through that. Only in america, only in america could my journey be possible, they say.

      I used to say stuff like, well, youknow… These things are really not what other countries struggle with. But I have since learned that you cannot get between an american and his opportunity to wave the flag.

      See. The difference between poverty in the US and third world poverty is that Americas poor are surrounded by tall buildings, fancy cars, all those potential riches that they will never take part in. There is this sense that any day now, any time soon, its gonna be MY time to shine.

      Its like BEING american is to have a lottery ticket. And so even americas poorest dont want to tear down the system and build something new, modern and good for all. Because then their lottery ticket is suddenly worthless and it will never be their time to have it all. They will just be… Normal. Average citizens.

      This is why Idol, X-Factor and these talent shows on TV are the most popular shows on TV. Because they get to see average people making it big over night. And they get to vote and take some ownership of their success. Their journey. Their story.

    • @Janusha While I can appreciate your comment, it seems that you may have misunderstood my initial comments… I am completely against any kind of caste system/classification/class system that impedes the life course of any person in the world. Relegating individuals to any class/position, etc., is also slavery.

    • @Debra Lynn Paxton
      Yes yes I totally get it and obviously I was going on a bit of a rant. But its easy to talk about poverty and problems in other countries, isnt it.

      And class systems impeding the life course of people.. Is exactly what I was talking about too. Poverty breeds poverty.

  6. Ele mesmo diz que muito antes houve escravos para depois dizer que foi a caneta que levou à escravidão. O homem não dá atenção ao que diz?!
    Os níveis do Ted devem estar a ir pelo cano abaixo!!

  7. More views of Ibram X Kendi:

    “Kendi provoked controversy when he tweeted about the relationship between Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s third Supreme Court nominee, and two of her seven children, who had been adopted from an orphanage in Haiti. Kendi said:

    Some White colonizers ‘adopted’ Black children. They ‘civilized’ these ‘savage’ children in the ‘superior’ ways of White people, while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial, while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity. And whether this is Barrett or not is not the point. It is a belief too many White people have: if they have or adopt a child of color, then they can’t be racist.”

    • While I agree that there is a multitude of ‘trending virtue signalling’ in this present, global insanity, it is plausibly(not just possibly) incorrect for one to assume/imply, state out-right, that Justice Coney -Barrett and other adoptive parents have adopted children of other races as a way to relieve (insert race here) guilt. Love and the desire to relieve suffering were most likely the basis for their decision(s) to adopt. People of all races have adopted children of other races, whether tangibly/physically/legally or intangibly, e.g., spiritually.

    • @Debra Lynn Paxton Political figures do it for the same reason they serve a few years in the military. It’s about creating a record of service, looks good on the CV.

    • You reckon. What evidence have you to believe that they adopted to virtue signal and escape the shame of being white. What does that even mean, there is no shame in being white.

    • Excellent point ♥ Many of us in the world are of ‘mixed race’ ♥From a medical/forensic standpoint, every person is classified by their dental plates, Mongoloid, Negroid, Caucasoid, and most of are at least 2 or more of those, thus, all of the arguments about race are a moot point.

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