From a scientific point of view, the concept of race has failed to obtain any consensus. For example, Australian Aborigines may look more like African blacks than Southeast Asians but in this case, genetics overrides our perceptual, classificatory schemata. If we go back in time far enough, all humans descended from Africa. Since I'm a member of the species homo sapiens that originated in Africa, I'm either an other orAfrican-Greek German-Swedish-Dane American. And proud of it.
In this special episode of the podcast, Michael Shermer talks about:
- why race still matters
- why race shouldn’t matter
- racism
- BLM (Black Lives Matter), CRT (Critical Race Theory), DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)
- Anti-bias training
- the Implicit Association Test and if it measures unconscious racism
- race and IQ and why such group differences are environmental and not genetic
- how we can achieve a post-race world.