The Myth of Race | Melissa Weise | TEDxHolyokeCC

We talk about race as if we are certain what it is. What if race was simply a myth society creates? This talk will address the meaning of both myth and race.

Melissa is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and has been teaching social sciences at local colleges for seven years. Additionally, she has designed and implemented award winning social programs for at risk populations on both the West and East coasts. Currently, she runs her own counseling group practice and is working on designing and teaching college classes and learning communities, specifically about at-risk populations, advocacy and empowerment.

[Cottonsie]

back in college in the late 80’s i used to always say race is just a social construct. it’s not even new but ppl are finally getting it these days.

[aquarian-talk]

People in the comments section freaking out because race is and has always been a myth. Lol.

[simonsimon]

A myth is defined as ' a well-known story which was make up in the past to explain natural events or to justify religious beliefs or social customs' Homer is one of them, a Greek story teller. ICARUS!

[greatemeraldgoat]

Presenter: The Human Genome project and several genetic scientists involved have determined by DNA sequencing that race is a false concept

Chuds in the Comments: WHAT ABOUT MUH DNA TEST

[eddieotero]

My friends & I race all the time...lmao

[johnlomax]

She is quite passionate about her subject. That is obvious. Her imaginative reconstruction of Africans encountering neanderthals shows signs of extreme bias. She is illustrating neanderthals as being less than human, which modern DNA researchers are quickly finding to not be an accurate representation based on current scientific evidence. She is biased in her passion to "prove" that race doesn't exist. It does. Just not in the way that had been traditionally taught for the last one hundred to two hundred years. Just as animal breeds have their own physical characteristics, human family groups do also and they do not make one group less human than another, but they do make them unique. Different human family groups, and I mean geographical origin specific groups of humans, do have their own unique characteristics within the human family. This lady would obviously love to pepper spray me for staying this, but there is more than one valid scientific viewpoint and interpretation.

[bjrnn.]

"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.

[jean-pierremuchuba]

So poor! Please listen to Dr Sharad Paul on the myth of race. A Ted talk from NZ.

[WillVafuth]

Anthropologically, race IS biological. the are skeletal differences... Forensic anthropologists have proven this.