In our modern free-spoken society, there is a word that we still hold taboo. A word with a terrible history of being used to abuse, oppress, and subdue. Just six little letters all jumbled together that cause damage that we may never mend. Here I recommend Tim Mention's song Prejudice. He starts off with this dark blue lighting with a subdued tone. Red lights come up on stage and the shift in music is much more upbeat. The answer is obvious. Race and racism, as manifested in slavery, segregation, lynchings, Jim Crow, profiling, and police brutality, is America's original sin? Whereas we have no history of prejudice and bigotry based
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.