Bizarre that he works backwards from his conclusion and doesn't address the correlations between IQ and success (i.e; the average IQ of intellectually demanding professions such as physicists). Equally bizarre that he implies the IQ test is prejudiced against "the poor" and women, what IQ test is structured to provide better results to the affluent or the male? These points seem to almost defeat the cultural argument most individuals attempting to debunk IQ tests make. Has the guy ever taken an IQ test himself to see what kind of questions are asked? His argument vaguely reminds me of right-wingers who say Planned Parenthood is bad *today* because some of it's founders were eugenicists. This is simply a cut-and-dry ad hominem attack that is irrelevant to modern IQ testing.
@@ratbatnufftime2861 That's incorrect. It's correlated to income and increasingly so in our technology driven world. How many coders, physicians, and attorneys have an IQ below 100?
He was born on my son's birthday who was murdered at the age of 21. My son was a killed through gun violence. My son's death inspired my writing of my Book Oh' Child of the Lord..
You could have also went back in history when black was at the counter in Woolworth or Lewis crossing the bridge being beaten. I am always surprise all the tech. And nobody look interesting.
@Twenty Faces how is the test racist? Genuinely curious. I agree with almost everything in this video but that statement really stood out as wrong. Or at least a stretch. It's pretty clear socioeconomic issues and history will have an impact on the results. This in my opinion is the primary reason for the disparity in scoring. Not that the test itself is somehow racist.
I disagree with Ibram X. Kendi on one point. Most black kids in this country are poor. The median black family is worth $1700. We are a poor people. These are Federal Reserve stats.
Excellent work. The only critique I have is that I wish Kendi was more explicit about how racism is an essential feature of American capitalism and so anti-racism MUST be anti-capitalist.
Yes exactly, for example on how capitalism requires cheap labor to function, and how racism and constant belittling of black people has legitimized and justified the use of quasi free workforce for centuries, giving the capitalists an unfair advantage and allowing them to accumulate much whealth in a relatively short period of time. Anti-racism would then need to be anti-capitalist because when addressing the issue of racism seriously, some of the policies would, purposefully or not, tackle social disparities, of which level of wages are an important part of. Capitalism has partially overcome this problem by outsourcing most of the cheap labor, that is why the Anti-racism and anti-capitalism struggles needs to put themselves at a worlwide level in the long run in my opinion.
@RED PILL PORTAL huh. Any specific supporting evidence for your hyperbolic blanket statement? Are you saying I and/or Kendi are Communists so must believe in predatory systems. Are you familiar with American or Western history?? Or any history for that matter?
Can someone explain how a test can be racist? Racism isn’t the cause of every problem, but it can be made to be by continuing to focus everything through the lens of race
"The activism" (and by extension, the sort that Mr. Kendi offers as anti-racism) "is a way for useless people to feel important, even if their activism" (read false gospel) "is counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole." - Thomas Sowell
So, the best you comment you can make on a video concerning current race issues is one black man who the vast majority of people of colour don't agree with and who's entire career depended upon his acceptance into white institutions and your point is what? I LOVE how yt racists like yourself tell on themselves by only selectively considering the ideas of pickmes like Sowell and Cadence Owens, who have strong internalised racism and tend to enable the violence of white neocolonialism so long as they get a pat on the back and some dollars in their pocket. Funny how you only like Black thinkers who don't challenge your preconceptions or comfort at all. Funny how you seem to think people like Kendi are damaging 'the fabric of society' by advocating for equity, where as you don't seem to consider white domestic terrorist shoot ups and a damage to society. What a joke you are.
@Alice Amell - You missed the point entirely. Sowell contends that the type of "activism" Kendi promotes is the kind that hurts everyone. Not just Blacks. And that's the point. His sort of "activism" is based on nothing more than wishful thinking - and is grounded in a failed 19th century political philosophy that has been a miserable failure everywhere its been tried.
Yes, it's a great book. I read it in one of my classes while doing my masters! I love the first chapter about Colombus, the Indians, and human progress. I thought it was fascinating!
As someone who has autism I've felt a personal responsibility to check the history of IQ tests and how broken they are. But of course I don't have the influence to create wide discussion about it. Thank you for talking about it.
@Nathan Gatten there's millions of discussion groups you could check out. Especially now because people think vaccines cause autism. My nephew has a high end autism and he's bad ass. He's taking karate now so nobody will ever talk shit to his face. I have mad respect for my nephew lil' Mike.
Eric Brooks, Truth is, caucasians are a flawed race, which is why they are constantly trying to prove how smart they think they are. A many of scholars argues that racism, the threat of nuclear war, environmental pollution, and other social problems are the result of the behavior, values, and psychology of the white race. Who in their "right-mind" would want to follow or be a part of those destructive qualities?
Oh my God! So I took some feminism classes in college and I realized the kinds of sexists beliefs I had about women and even about myself. In order to feel like I had power in the world, I had adopted sexist attitudes so that, if I put other women below me in an attempt to be "one of the boys," maybe I could achieve a higher status even though I was a woman. Now don't get me wrong, my personality and thinking are very male, but that doesn't mean that I should degrade other women. The point of being against bigotry is that you let people be people, even if they do embody the classic stereotypes or not. I can't say that, as a feminist, I think women must be just like men or even that men are a monolith. All these ideas that we have about people in whatever group we put them in have narrowed what is acceptable behavior and it's not erasing that bigotry to insist that everyone purposely not fulfill any stereotype. This has a big impact upon women because there's the wife and mother role that's stereotypical, but it's not a rebellion to insist that women who want to do this never do so. It's not about erasing any one personality; it's about letting people be people, just like me, you, and all of us.
It's because we live in a patriarchy. Anything "woman" is considered beneath anything "man". Men are considered the default. Yet, look at the world and l the problems patriarchy has brought us. Tell me if that's what we want to continue?
So rare to see, watch and listen to a human being who is at the same time so humane and so knowledgeable! Kudos to Dr. Ibram. I'll look forward to reading his books.
You don't need to raise children to be anti racist. You just need to expose them to people different from them early in life. It becomes clear right away we are all the same.
yes you do if you're interested in seeing the end of racism - it's a system that is part and parcel of capitalism. Colorblind liberalism actually feeds and supports racism.
@Alice AmellThe truth is what it is and its ugly and undeniable. How the message is packaged though is important. Not all benefactors benefit equally. Painting with a broad brush and using totalitizing statements (racist/anti-racist) like Kendi and his lik WILL alienate needed allies in the fight for justice. This is exactly the type of rhetoric that the right wing media sphere loves. Just look at all the accusations of CRT in K-12 education and the policymaking that followed. Hearts and minds, honey vs vinegar and all that jazz.
so japan which is around 99% japanese is not a capitalist country. or south korea which does not have racial minorities as far as i know. intellectuals can create fantasy utopias also. karl marx is the jesus christ of the university class. i believe in some things marx and christ said, but i don’t buy either of there ideology as workable in the real world. every system has its drawbacks. you don’t see the university professors set an example by giving their money or position away. wait til someone tells them it’s their year to wrk as a garbage man and you’ll see them bring out their i.q.test to get out of that.
It's a fact that the racist person usually deny its own racism and even calls out other people racist, just like was done by the El Paso shooter. This fact is so resemblance on Antisemitism.
The thing I have always found weird about this value placed on the darkness of someone's skin is that you'll have a racist going to the tanning bed or lying out in the sun... to get darker skin. Why should skin that needs the sun to darken be better than skin that's already dark? It seemed like the most absurd thing to me. I also have brown eyes and I considered getting green contacts. I never did it because they cost more than the regular contacts and then I found that contacts dry out my eyes too much. My mom has light eyes and she married a man with brown eyes because she thinks that darker eyes are nicer. In some ways, we always think that grass is greener on the other side but, if that's the case, we shouldn't be bigots against the people who were born with something that we have to work to get. It's just completely absurd.
Completely agree. And skin that needs to have sun to get darker will more than likely develop melanoma due to tanning. Further shows that light skin isn't suited to be dark. What it comes down to is we all bleed red. No one is better or worse because of our genetic make up.
14:00 Kendi calls himself a historian and continues to say racism and slavery began with capitalism. Racism is a form of tribalism, that has existed long before capitalism. So has slavery.
Incorrect. What you are referring to (prejudice and tribalism) are distinct and separate from what is being discussed. Racism is directly related to the emergence of eugenics in the 20th century, which under the guise of 'science' put forward the idea of race as a fact (including the false idea that white people were more 'evolved', and other races more 'animal like') enabling the dehumanisation of non-white people for easier exploitation under capitalism. The repercussions of this ideology are still being dealt with today. The reason that it appears otherwise to you is that you have grown up in a world still informed and effected by racist power structures which encourage you to conflate prejudice with racism so as to make racism seem 'eternal' and not recognize the specifics of its functioning, the role of structural power, nor analyse your own part in the system, nor mount any significant resistance to it. Before you critique a historian, know your technical terms and history.
@@bloodbuddy7 the othering of people different from us is older than capitalism or the 20th century. The 20th century eugenics is just an evolution of that. What he is doing is an old anti-capitalist trick that intentionally conflates anything bad with capitalism.
@@paulelago9453 As I literally just explained, racism is not merely the 'othering of people different from us'. Your dedication to not being able to see the distinction (nor address eugenics and its impact) is telling. Then again, I don't expect much nuance or reality from a capitalist pig. Checked the temperature recently? See you sweating as both sea levels and global awareness rise, but I'm suuuuuuuuuure the global temperature rise has nothing to do with mass industrialisation and dirty fossil fuels trying to support the capitalist machine... because 'industry' in the meaning of 'trying hard to do something' has always existed, right? These kinds of idiotic semantic games only obscure reality to those more present in their mental acrobatics and excuses than reality. The rest of us are less deluded. Oh, and: NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR.
Thank you so much Ibram for your intellectual insight! Your research is much needed today, for treatment of people of colour due to racist behavior and infrastructure needs to be challenged and demolished! And education is the key!
His wearing the light contact lens reminds me of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. It’s good Ibram X.Kendi evolved and grew to love his blackness. He’s a handsome black man. Colorism is a beast that still plagues our black community.
Kendi an example of how to be a good analyst but how a good analyst can halt the critical process where analysis transitions to synthesis. The racist systems he categorizes are dependent on the hierarchy controlled by capitalism. Without the replacement of capitalism with human based socialism that eliminates race as a category going forward , anti racism becomes the paradox to maintain all forms of capitalist repression.
“The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” - Ibram Kendi
What a tragedy. To think that in just a tiny sliver of hundreds of thousands of years that we have been living in tribes we could possibly come together and not have some residual prejudice for our neighbors who have more in common then we may give them credit for. We are not ready and it is painfully obvious.
I will say one thing about not doing any kind of art for the others who might take it in. Anyone who is not you can't have the same experiences as you. The only way to truly become a human community is for us to be able to take in the individuality and the humanity of others. If we create art in order to catch the attention of certain people, we are neither going to succeed in defining their interests in our arts nor of expressing the very reason why art is created. We all need to be able to see someone's soul in what they create so that we can see their humanity and we can learn things that we would never be able to learn otherwise in our current human forms. The most striking example for me, as a white person, is when we started to see instances of police brutality towards black people. Before I saw the beating of Rodney King when I was barely a teenager, I had heard some second or third hand reports from my black friends about how the police treated them. It's not that I didn't believe the stories, but when I saw the video of the police beating Rodney King for no good reason, it created this visceral anger in me because I know the police would never treat me that way. The point is that we need to seek out the art of other people because this is the only way to know what humanity is as a whole and how we are interacting with each other. This is the only way to create peace because once you can see other people as being your sisters and brothers in humanity, you can start to really be human yourself.
The bottom line is that the people in charge rig the system so that they always look like they deserve to be ahead. What flows out of that are racist, sexism, ablism, bigotry against the poor, etc. because the goal of the elites is to create a system in which only their progeny will succeed and to try to convince everyone that the reason they maintain their power is because of merit, not unfair advantage. They have to make people think that it's our fault if we are poor and, by extension, that they deserve their wealth because they are superior. I love how Kendi hits the nail right on the head with this. The tactic of the elites is to keep the majority of us from calling out how unfair it all is and standing together by dividing those of us who they are subjugating. We have to come to realize that the ones subjugating us are ultimately the same ones subjugating nearly everyone else.
Arguments sound more like opinion. Basically he is saying the history of these tests used within the context of their time invalidate the tool of standard tests of any kind today. These people are against any, any benchmarking. Why? They don't like their results. It is racist if I cannot compete on an equal level and never gave the same effort? Nevermind that Indians, Middle Easterners, and all East Asians excel. They just don't count. Don't even consider the fact that they take the test many times in a second language and STILL score higher. In other countries they have these tests BECAUSE they are fair. In America some say they are wrong because we don't like the outcome. Not saying the test should be everything, work ethic, drive, personal direction and luck play half. Standard testing is an important indicator, especially across schools and as a general indicator of... aptitude. If a student has straight As and scores 800 maybe they are not as capable as their school would like you to think. Maybe a student has Bs in a rigorous school but gets a 1200... We need to protect hardworking students from grade inflation. We need to fight this weakness and pandering to the children of our society. We need to examine outcomes objectively and look truth in the face.
His book Stamped From The Beginning; The Definitive History Of Racist Ideas In America is very good. I will be purchasing his next book. Very brilliant brother.
Reparation is a pipe dream. I would like to say "I'm not racist" but to tell the truth I am sure I am. I see it as an age old problem. Humans have always been jealous of one another. We want what others have. One way for us to make our selves feel better is to point out some one else that we believe to be lesser. We are all animals living together. We fight over the scraps. Some one is always going to be on top. Until we practice the idea that all people are equal the cancer of racism will continue to grow.
I think it's good to be honest about these things. But I wonder if you would be racist if you grew up away from civilization. Think of those children that have been away from civilization. They are more primal than we are. They know someone is different from them, but the racism comes from thinking someone is beneath you because of those differences. If we reset and erased all of these hateful ideas, would we still develop these ideas about the differences of others. I often wonder about this...
as a his storian im thinking u are aware that the term "race" has absolutely no biological founding/meaning among human beings... there is only the human race which distinguished humans from other life species... to begin to refrain from referring to human phenotype features, such as level of melanin pigmentation in skin, eyes & hair, as "race"... i would be most happy to share the scientific method evidence that all are 1 afrikan human race... terri a.
Ask Lebron James how did he get to where he is now? He owe everything to his mother. She knew the value of commitment and found a coach who would act as a father to her son. Have you seen what Indian and Chinese parents do to make their kids excel at Steam? Simple, a lot of pressure, dedication and commitment. Asian get ready waiting for opportunity. We sit down listening to rap music, dancing, selling dope because our role model are gangsters, thieves and drug dealers. We are accommodated and poverty has become our comfort zone. Latinos are the same. They are doomed in the dope game.
IQ reflects a very narrow spectrum of intelligence. Secondly, IQ is just a test, you can enhace your score with education and practice. But saying the IQ test is racist is baloney.
It is a waste of time to argue that these test are racial biased and therefore flawed. Conservatives will never admit to that. It society finds it necessary to test peoples abilities, then progressives should be about the business of developing a 'task' that can effectively measures anyone's abilities. Test are not always accurate in predicting ones performance for a given task.
Slavery made a few white families extremely wealthy for a few generations over 150 years ago. The vast majority of Southern whites were not slaveholders, and in fact resented the institution of slavery. It's just silly to think that modern African Americans are owed any sort of money by modern whites. Whatever wealth was generated from slavery for whites was destroyed during the Civil War. Whatever whites owed blacks after that was paid for in the form of welfare. Today, the average American black is wealthier than the average white globally, and they enjoy numerous unique institutional privileges. Anyone seriously advocating black reparations is simply an anti-white racist.
It is very racist. It reflects and uses culture to formulate problems. I guaranty you, you will score very low on a test designed by the Roman Empire, or even by black people in the US.
Mutineer9 I scored 161 but IQ score are qualitative in nature and we try to quantitative it incorrectly. There are other ways to measure Bain activity in a more mechanical way . I don’t think there a reason to discuss this as IQ score do not affect your success in life . There are irrelevant and not racist in nature .
@@chadnasir6387 I agree IQ scores do not qualitative intelligence correctly. Actually we can not even define what intelligence is. What I disagree is your assessment that IQ score do not effect your success in life. In many places it was used and still used as a criteria of hiring and promotion or access to education. For example, typical English test build in same line as IQ score test and will filter people from different cultures. They will not able to pass it, not because they understand English less then some one else, but because they will not know cultural implications of questions.
Latino/Hispanic/Mexican Is not a race. Repeating it over and over again in the media will never make it true. Those people can claim minority and Caucasian at the same time.
@Peggy Wiley It's one thing to claim blood, lineage or heritage but it's something totally different to have your government recognize and provide resources, benefits and set asides as a result.
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There isn't mush to say, Trump and company are just trash! Absolute trash holes. The Republiklan party need to be boycotted.
Sorry, but if we are to fight racism we need brighter, braver, better informed fighters. I am half Native American, Quechwa. As with any argumentative feud, we must start by acknowledging facts not only wholesale denouncing everything on a single argument. Racism is real but it is our duty to demonstrably and factually show where and how it exists. As with feminism it doesn't suffice to say "because there are power inequalities across cultural collectives and sexes therefore there is racism and sexism on every difference" We should be brave and assume the hard work of meticulously finding the concrete instances in which racism works, utlining its cultural, psychological, political and economic incentives. Moral considerations are necessary but after we do the analytic and descriptive work. Otherwise we play into the hands of this racist dynamics.
Here is your problem (and our problem as a society), Women and men actually exist!!! Race does not exist! There are no European groups, on the face of this planet that have skin that is "snow white", there are no groups on this planet that have skin that is coal BLACK! The creation of RACIAL categories which the U.S. govt still uses (when a Cop stops me they will put BLACK as my race on the ticket, same thing with U.S. Census, and most applications including Bank loans, and Jobs us BLACK & WHITE categorizing as well). Please tell me what country a BLACK person comes from and what country a White person comes from???? Please tell me What shade of skin tone is dark enough to make a black person BLACK and what shade of skin tone is light enought to make someone white???? Are you familiar with the phenomena called "passing", where people who have parents who are not classified as "white" actually pass for white??? This is the fundamental problem, my son will be classified as BLACK as soon as he comes out of the womb, that designation had NOTHING to do with any particular tribe, heritage, country, language nor culture. That term will be used by EVERYONE who he encounters his entire life even though the term has only ONE purpose... to literally black-ball him socially. This is the fundamental problem with your statement, do you really believe that there are "Black" people????
@@insidejah9293 Name a single line where I affirmed "race" exists. Precisely I wrote "racism" So your whole premise is wrong. Sorry, try again. So no, it's not MY problem, it's YOURS. If you can't read and try to project your own ignorance. BTW I have always criticised why descendants from the latter African forced migration (we are all Africans and indeed our hyplogroups are all mixed) still construct a main identity around "blackness". "Black caucaus", "Black panthers", "Black lives matters". In East Timor I dated an African girl from Eritrea that shares more of her hyplogroup with Europe than with Congo. Races still do not exist, I have said and written this for ages. It is a different thing, however, to affirm that different collectives don't have genetic differences. Asians are smarter, and apparently. You may say "Asians" are not a race, they are an arbitrary cathegorisation, but it is not true to say there are abstract, non-precise spheres of genetic concentration. We are all Africans, we had different migration paths, but it is naive and pointless to deny a priori the possibility of differences. E.g. subsharan collectives (again, no "race") seem to have a few physiological differences (muscles and ligaments) that, while marginal, still account for marginal differences that make them better athletes. Likewise there ARE cultural differences. Most countries where only native Americans, Asian, Subsaharan (if you wish we can distinguish Bantu, Afro_asiatic or other families), Germanic, Latin people reside have different levels of technological and social-organisational transformation. Perhaps it would be better to assume that's fine, that Subsaharans, Natives, Autronesians did NOT NEED to develop further, subsistance was materially assured whereas Germanic, Niponic, Korean needed to simply to survive (also because the British forced Japan, Korea and China to assume capitalism or perish colllectively) We do have legitimate grievances (a taxi driver in Congo should earn as much as an equally qualififed taxi driver in Frankfurt) but at some point we will have to stop. We can't winge for centuries. BTW we are on the verge of forming a new species, so we better bring justice soon or that ship is sailed.
The root of this problem we have with humanity is that we have given ourselves various excuses for not seeing other people as people like we are. This is the only way we can hate one another. This is the only way we can go to war and kill one another. This is the only way that we can separate out people, not to appreciate the magnificent diversity we have as members of the species Homo sapiens, but in order to divide us so that a few people can subjugate us and force us into perpetual division and perpetual war. I don't care who you think is the primary culprit. This absurdity is being perpetuated upon the whole world and we are at the point of going extinct. We are at the point of going extinct and we have allowed money, that has never been alive, to literally decide whose lives matter and whether or not the lives of our entire species, plus many others, will be able to survive in the only planet we have ever known. At this point, we have to realize that it's absurd. Does profit matter more than people?
You've had great comments! I hope you've looked into the other issues that tie into this. Perhaps read these books and watch these films...if you haven't already done so.... "Protest Kitchen" by Carol Adams "Sexual Politics of Meat" by Carol Adams "Unity" and "Earthlings" by Shawn Monson And watch Cowspiracy and Seaspiracy
So if your not a racist and you say your not a racist. That means you are a racist ?? So you can't say "I'm not a racist" You can only say I'm an anti-racist..Thanks for teaching us how to speak bro..cut your hair you look like a girl.. And take responsibility for your own self esteem..you cant keep blaming white people.
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The skin color drama rules. Suppose we stop referring to each other by color? E.g., Americans of European, African, Latin, etc., descent. Why is that difficult?
I can only see that happening if we somehow found life on other planets...then we'd have to call ourselves "Earthlings". Idk what it will take for us to come together.
I'm glad to hear this man speak on the bs of the "color blind" argument. It's a form of denial in my opinion. Of course we can see differences in each other. EVERYONE has prejudices, be honest about it. But more importantly, accept that prejudices are wrong, and faulty in logic, no matter how hard it seems.
“The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” - Ibram Kendi
If this younger generation is going to survive to see any kind of old age, it cannot wait for 'permission' to revolt, rebel and resist. It has to push past us older, more sedentary geezers, ignore the grunts and groans we're inevitably going to make, and grab the wheel with both hands.
@@k1dork they're smart, strong, optimistic and aware. They have the tools, the drive and the knowledge. They'll outlast the hate, the bigotry and the foolishness that's become the quicksand of government and corporate corruption. There's no percentage in despair or learned helplessness.
Interested in how he does not disprove the function of intelligence tests and the results (which are about as concrete as any phycology science can get). Instead he is maligning the test as racism. The tests provide raw unbias data. The only racism would be how you interpret that data, like if you thought biology explained the difference. Most genetic studies do not point to biological differences; variance within a group is greater than the differences between. I don't think anyone knows definitively what explains the difference but the best theory I ever heard was cultural habits are the biggest factor - the life choices of the individuals.
Adam O'Brien This sounds like you are just repeating what Jordan Peterson used to say about IQ tests. It’s never great when someone can point to specific videos/sources that people got their information from. You should think about having a more diverse source for your information. And using black/Latino culture (whatever you mean by that) to explain disparities is implicitly suggesting that their culture is inferior, since most would accept that intelligence is a universal value. The solution that comes forth from that explanation is that blacks and Latinos should become more White/Asian in their culture. You also claim that IQ tests provide raw unbiased data. But you have to actually look at the structure of the tests themselves (and the motivations of the people who constructed the tests). The tests cannot be unbiased because there is no objective measure of intelligence. The history of psychology up into recent decades is mired with eugenicist and racist thinking and theory, and the IQ test has this same origin. Even though it has slightly changed over the years, it still uses the types of questions that are geared towards a particular culture and that are easier if you have a particular Western education, which blacks are less likely to have due in large part to poverty. The reason why blacks and Latinos are less likely to succeed in a test geared more towards a White and Western conception of intelligence is not biological but environmental: we have to ask the question of why our standard of intelligence is defined by White Westerners and also what is keeping blacks and Latinos back from succeeding at it. Life choices are determined by economics in the sense that it is more difficult for blacks and Latinos to afford the western education that is required to do well on the tests. It’s not like blacks are taught to join gangs and skip school (which is partly what’s implied when reactionaries use the “life choices” explanation). They are pressured into these things because of their economic and social position in society and by various forms of racism inherent in the social and economic structure. History obviously plays a major role in this as well, which conservatives downplay or ignore, instead trying to focus on the present moment. Well, if the average black man has to start further back than the average white man in the race for education and success, and has to overcome certain structural obstacles, that makes it more difficult to succeed on tests of western intelligence like the IQ test, not to mention other standards that we often use to define success.
You stop the racial wealth gap as a people by DEVELOPING A STRATEGY TO PRODUCE GOODS, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES ON A HIGH LEVEL AND CONSUME WITH WISDOM AND DISCERNMENT! CREATE CREATE CREATE INSTEAD OF CONSUME CONSUME CONSUME....and the products being consumed come from the capitalist(former slave owners) constructs(they have a strategy....do you)........KNOW PURPOSE!
1) Latin people don't use the work Latinx. It's a clunky word that doesn't flow in a regular conversation and, instead of virtue signaling, you can just say Latin, which is gender neutral. 2)Ibram X. Kendi wants to "ban" Racist ideas. How would he ban them in light of the first amendment? Serious question.
This is very interesting, I will buy Ibram's book. Another thing to note with the I.Q. test is that women got higher results than men, so they changed that too! Goes to show you what 'tests' really qualify as. We all have our own strengths and place and purpose, sometimes it's hard to see an individuals quality, even to themselves. Evolution takes time, and some people evolve quicker in one aspects but not another. It is almost impossible to quantify. Love is the panacea, first for ourselves, then so we can love others truly, and balanced. The racism and hatred in this world comes from not loving themselves, from feeling inferior ourselves. We hate others because we hate ourselves, and have the sickness of separation.
Women have never scored better than men on average on IQ tests, or vice versa. What is true about sex differences in IQ scores is that women have a smaller standard deviation than men. This means that there are more smart men than smart women on average, but that there are also more dumb men than dumb women on average.
So.. wait? Keep capitalism/ racism?! Or?!?... Why not tear the system down as it stands now? And create something new?Can you ever use capitalism to pay back the harm done by slavery. By keeping a kinder(?) Form of it going?
@@DubG9 For one, the mutually contradictory notion that in order to be "anti-racist" one needs to discriminate against some people based on their race. It's nonsense. Destructive, unsupported nonsense.
6:48 - Ibram X. Kendi talks about the development of racist intelligence tests, and how that legacy is still reflected in the U.S. education system.
Bizarre that he works backwards from his conclusion and doesn't address the correlations between IQ and success (i.e; the average IQ of intellectually demanding professions such as physicists). Equally bizarre that he implies the IQ test is prejudiced against "the poor" and women, what IQ test is structured to provide better results to the affluent or the male? These points seem to almost defeat the cultural argument most individuals attempting to debunk IQ tests make. Has the guy ever taken an IQ test himself to see what kind of questions are asked? His argument vaguely reminds me of right-wingers who say Planned Parenthood is bad *today* because some of it's founders were eugenicists. This is simply a cut-and-dry ad hominem attack that is irrelevant to modern IQ testing.
@@akihitochan IQ bears no co relation to destiny and this has already been proven.
@@ratbatnufftime2861 That's incorrect. It's correlated to income and increasingly so in our technology driven world. How many coders, physicians, and attorneys have an IQ below 100?
@@akihitochan He absolutely works backwards. It's completely dishonest. He's a charlatan. Emperor Kendi has no clothes.
He is a racist in himself against others.
He was born on my son's birthday who was murdered at the age of 21. My son was a killed through gun violence. My son's death inspired my writing of my Book Oh' Child of the Lord..
I'm sorry. :(
@@AnaisWren Thank you...
😢😢
Willie Dearing -God's blessings to you & your family
You could have also went back in history when black was at the counter in Woolworth or Lewis crossing the bridge being beaten. I am always surprise all the tech. And nobody look interesting.
This dude is coming to my university in a few weeks. So excited! Thanks for hosting him, Democracy Now!
Lucky. I hope you enjoy the talk.
He’s going to tell you that standardized tests are racist, yet somehow Asians do well on them.🤷🏾♂️
Twenty Faces, how are they racist NOW if Asians do well on them?
I’ll wait...
@Twenty Faces how is the test racist? Genuinely curious.
I agree with almost everything in this video but that statement really stood out as wrong. Or at least a stretch.
It's pretty clear socioeconomic issues and history will have an impact on the results. This in my opinion is the primary reason for the disparity in scoring. Not that the test itself is somehow racist.
Twenty Faces, that’s unbelievably stupid.
A black supremacist talking about racism. Precious.
I disagree with Ibram X. Kendi on one point. Most black kids in this country are poor. The median black family is worth $1700. We are a poor people. These are Federal Reserve stats.
What do you mean by "median"?
So not true, trust facts that aren't push pulling
Thank you Amy n company fer quality Journalism
and offering Solutions to this big a$$ boil on Americas butt.
Excellent work. The only critique I have is that I wish Kendi was more explicit about how racism is an essential feature of American capitalism and so anti-racism MUST be anti-capitalist.
Yes exactly, for example on how capitalism requires cheap labor to function, and how racism and constant belittling of black people has legitimized and justified the use of quasi free workforce for centuries, giving the capitalists an unfair advantage and allowing them to accumulate much whealth in a relatively short period of time. Anti-racism would then need to be anti-capitalist because when addressing the issue of racism seriously, some of the policies would, purposefully or not, tackle social disparities, of which level of wages are an important part of. Capitalism has partially overcome this problem by outsourcing most of the cheap labor, that is why the Anti-racism and anti-capitalism struggles needs to put themselves at a worlwide level in the long run in my opinion.
@RED PILL PORTAL huh. Any specific supporting evidence for your hyperbolic blanket statement? Are you saying I and/or Kendi are Communists so must believe in predatory systems. Are you familiar with American or Western history?? Or any history for that matter?
Its so rare to hear the truth about the IQ and SAT test.
Marc Kingdom, lmao!
The tests are racist...yet somehow Asians are immune.🤷🏾♂️
jared teer
Are they, though? 🤔
Nahuatl, that’s what this “expert” said. He said Asians and whites do well.
I assume you did poorly on the test.
I hear it all the time. Where you been?
Can someone explain how a test can be racist? Racism isn’t the cause of every problem, but it can be made to be by continuing to focus everything through the lens of race
"The activism" (and by extension, the sort that Mr. Kendi offers as anti-racism) "is a way for useless people to feel important, even if their activism" (read false gospel) "is counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole." - Thomas Sowell
So, the best you comment you can make on a video concerning current race issues is one black man who the vast majority of people of colour don't agree with and who's entire career depended upon his acceptance into white institutions and your point is what? I LOVE how yt racists like yourself tell on themselves by only selectively considering the ideas of pickmes like Sowell and Cadence Owens, who have strong internalised racism and tend to enable the violence of white neocolonialism so long as they get a pat on the back and some dollars in their pocket. Funny how you only like Black thinkers who don't challenge your preconceptions or comfort at all. Funny how you seem to think people like Kendi are damaging 'the fabric of society' by advocating for equity, where as you don't seem to consider white domestic terrorist shoot ups and a damage to society. What a joke you are.
@Alice Amell - You missed the point entirely. Sowell contends that the type of "activism" Kendi promotes is the kind that hurts everyone. Not just Blacks. And that's the point. His sort of "activism" is based on nothing more than wishful thinking - and is grounded in a failed 19th century political philosophy that has been a miserable failure everywhere its been tried.
Howard Zinn: "A people's History of the United States"
Had to read it 3x....then came to the realization that caucasians are a curse on the earth, stretched over generations.
Yes, it's a great book. I read it in one of my classes while doing my masters! I love the first chapter about Colombus, the Indians, and human progress. I thought it was fascinating!
@@amanja0308 Are you caucasian or human??
@@markbreithaupt1187 I am that which cannot be recognize. How about that?
@@amanja0308 lol. what you call a curse we call control.
As someone who has autism I've felt a personal responsibility to check the history of IQ tests and how broken they are. But of course I don't have the influence to create wide discussion about it. Thank you for talking about it.
@Nathan Gatten there's millions of discussion groups you could check out. Especially now because people think vaccines cause autism.
My nephew has a high end autism and he's bad ass. He's taking karate now so nobody will ever talk shit to his face. I have mad respect for my nephew lil' Mike.
Imagine being so fragile that you create a test to prove how smarter you are than others.
Simplistic answer
Eric Brooks, imagine being so fragile that you claim that a test is racist even though Asians do well on them.
Eric Brooks, Truth is, caucasians are a flawed race, which is why they are constantly trying to prove how smart they think they are. A many of scholars argues that racism, the threat of nuclear war, environmental pollution, and other social problems are the result of the behavior, values, and psychology of the white race. Who in their "right-mind" would want to follow or be a part of those destructive qualities?
amanja deshanti, you need therapy.
@@k1dork - I didn't expect anything less from a "negropeon."
Oh my God! So I took some feminism classes in college and I realized the kinds of sexists beliefs I had about women and even about myself. In order to feel like I had power in the world, I had adopted sexist attitudes so that, if I put other women below me in an attempt to be "one of the boys," maybe I could achieve a higher status even though I was a woman. Now don't get me wrong, my personality and thinking are very male, but that doesn't mean that I should degrade other women. The point of being against bigotry is that you let people be people, even if they do embody the classic stereotypes or not. I can't say that, as a feminist, I think women must be just like men or even that men are a monolith. All these ideas that we have about people in whatever group we put them in have narrowed what is acceptable behavior and it's not erasing that bigotry to insist that everyone purposely not fulfill any stereotype. This has a big impact upon women because there's the wife and mother role that's stereotypical, but it's not a rebellion to insist that women who want to do this never do so. It's not about erasing any one personality; it's about letting people be people, just like me, you, and all of us.
It's because we live in a patriarchy. Anything "woman" is considered beneath anything "man". Men are considered the default. Yet, look at the world and l the problems patriarchy has brought us. Tell me if that's what we want to continue?
So rare to see, watch and listen to a human being who is at the same time so humane and so knowledgeable! Kudos to Dr. Ibram. I'll look forward to reading his books.
BLESSINGS TO THIS MAN.
Ibram speaks so well and beautifully and I really enjoyed listening to his insight
Saying a black person speaks well is seen as racist by a lot of people now. Just saying.
He is an author - did you expect him to speak in Ebonics? Your racism is seeping through ...
You don't need to raise children to be anti racist. You just need to expose them to people different from them early in life. It becomes clear right away we are all the same.
yes you do if you're interested in seeing the end of racism - it's a system that is part and parcel of capitalism. Colorblind liberalism actually feeds and supports racism.
@@zapatasghost I think your take is more divisive than you realize. Accusing everyone of supporting racism by default isnt a winning strategy.
@Alice AmellThe truth is what it is and its ugly and undeniable. How the message is packaged though is important. Not all benefactors benefit equally. Painting with a broad brush and using totalitizing statements (racist/anti-racist) like Kendi and his lik WILL alienate needed allies in the fight for justice.
This is exactly the type of rhetoric that the right wing media sphere loves. Just look at all the accusations of CRT in K-12 education and the policymaking that followed.
Hearts and minds, honey vs vinegar and all that jazz.
Democracy now, you guys and gals are great! Keep up the amazing work!
You can't have capitalism without racism.
I'd love to hear a reasoned proof of that. Does this also mean that socialism is necessarily anti-racist?
so japan which is around 99% japanese is not a capitalist country. or south korea which does not have racial minorities as far as i know. intellectuals can create fantasy utopias also. karl marx is the jesus christ of the university class. i believe in some things marx and christ said, but i don’t buy either of there ideology as workable in the real world. every system has its drawbacks. you don’t see the university professors set an example by giving their money or position away. wait til someone tells them it’s their year to wrk as a garbage man and you’ll see them bring out their i.q.test to get out of that.
It's a fact that the racist person usually deny its own racism and even calls out other people racist, just like was done by the El Paso shooter. This fact is so resemblance on Antisemitism.
The thing I have always found weird about this value placed on the darkness of someone's skin is that you'll have a racist going to the tanning bed or lying out in the sun... to get darker skin. Why should skin that needs the sun to darken be better than skin that's already dark? It seemed like the most absurd thing to me.
I also have brown eyes and I considered getting green contacts. I never did it because they cost more than the regular contacts and then I found that contacts dry out my eyes too much. My mom has light eyes and she married a man with brown eyes because she thinks that darker eyes are nicer. In some ways, we always think that grass is greener on the other side but, if that's the case, we shouldn't be bigots against the people who were born with something that we have to work to get. It's just completely absurd.
Completely agree. And skin that needs to have sun to get darker will more than likely develop melanoma due to tanning. Further shows that light skin isn't suited to be dark. What it comes down to is we all bleed red. No one is better or worse because of our genetic make up.
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Kendi calls himself a historian and continues to say racism and slavery began with capitalism.
Racism is a form of tribalism, that has existed long before capitalism. So has slavery.
Incorrect. What you are referring to (prejudice and tribalism) are distinct and separate from what is being discussed. Racism is directly related to the emergence of eugenics in the 20th century, which under the guise of 'science' put forward the idea of race as a fact (including the false idea that white people were more 'evolved', and other races more 'animal like') enabling the dehumanisation of non-white people for easier exploitation under capitalism. The repercussions of this ideology are still being dealt with today. The reason that it appears otherwise to you is that you have grown up in a world still informed and effected by racist power structures which encourage you to conflate prejudice with racism so as to make racism seem 'eternal' and not recognize the specifics of its functioning, the role of structural power, nor analyse your own part in the system, nor mount any significant resistance to it. Before you critique a historian, know your technical terms and history.
@@bloodbuddy7 the othering of people different from us is older than capitalism or the 20th century. The 20th century eugenics is just an evolution of that.
What he is doing is an old anti-capitalist trick that intentionally conflates anything bad with capitalism.
@@paulelago9453 As I literally just explained, racism is not merely the 'othering of people different from us'. Your dedication to not being able to see the distinction (nor address eugenics and its impact) is telling. Then again, I don't expect much nuance or reality from a capitalist pig. Checked the temperature recently? See you sweating as both sea levels and global awareness rise, but I'm suuuuuuuuuure the global temperature rise has nothing to do with mass industrialisation and dirty fossil fuels trying to support the capitalist machine... because 'industry' in the meaning of 'trying hard to do something' has always existed, right? These kinds of idiotic semantic games only obscure reality to those more present in their mental acrobatics and excuses than reality. The rest of us are less deluded.
Oh, and: NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR.
@@bloodbuddy7 first of all,how old are you?
Age doesn't have anything to do with this, is that the best response you've got?
Thank you so much Ibram for your intellectual insight! Your research is much needed today, for treatment of people of colour due to racist behavior and infrastructure needs to be challenged and demolished! And education is the key!
His wearing the light contact lens reminds me of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. It’s good Ibram X.Kendi evolved and grew to love his blackness. He’s a handsome black man. Colorism is a beast that still plagues our black community.
Kendi an example of how to be a good analyst but how a good analyst can halt the critical process where analysis transitions to synthesis. The racist systems he categorizes are dependent on the hierarchy controlled by capitalism. Without the replacement of capitalism with human based socialism that eliminates race as a category going forward , anti racism becomes the paradox to maintain all forms of capitalist repression.
Awesome interview! DN consistently delivers honest, thoughtful, and enlightening reporting.
For being an advocate of anti-racism, this cat Ibram X. Kendi is so damn racist and divisive. It's funny that he doesn't see it, but I do.
“The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” - Ibram Kendi
He keys in some really good and broad points with a great personality.
His connection between racism and capitalism is unbelievably simple for an “historian”
Everything in his work is very simple…
Race race race. Race race, race race race. Race! Race race race race race, “race” race. Race race race race.
They'll also delete your comments if you don't agree with their race mongering agenda
Merqo Alishanda what the hell is a Caucasian?
What a tragedy. To think that in just a tiny sliver of hundreds of thousands of years that we have been living in tribes we could possibly come together and not have some residual prejudice for our neighbors who have more in common then we may give them credit for. We are not ready and it is painfully obvious.
If Kendi's claim is true, we would expect Black students to do better in school than the tests would predict.
And they do when we trace their success after graduation
School is also racist. 😁
People who accuse others of racism COULD HAVE A PERCEPTION PROBLEM!
Smart dogs are easy to train and these comments are very reflective of that. The institutions have really done a number on a lot of you.
WE ALL LIVE ON THE SAME BALL
EARTH
Actually, we all live in a yellow submarine-- to borrow from the Beatles,
Happy birthday, brother! Thanks for all your work!
I will say one thing about not doing any kind of art for the others who might take it in. Anyone who is not you can't have the same experiences as you. The only way to truly become a human community is for us to be able to take in the individuality and the humanity of others. If we create art in order to catch the attention of certain people, we are neither going to succeed in defining their interests in our arts nor of expressing the very reason why art is created. We all need to be able to see someone's soul in what they create so that we can see their humanity and we can learn things that we would never be able to learn otherwise in our current human forms.
The most striking example for me, as a white person, is when we started to see instances of police brutality towards black people. Before I saw the beating of Rodney King when I was barely a teenager, I had heard some second or third hand reports from my black friends about how the police treated them. It's not that I didn't believe the stories, but when I saw the video of the police beating Rodney King for no good reason, it created this visceral anger in me because I know the police would never treat me that way. The point is that we need to seek out the art of other people because this is the only way to know what humanity is as a whole and how we are interacting with each other. This is the only way to create peace because once you can see other people as being your sisters and brothers in humanity, you can start to really be human yourself.
Ibrahim is a great speaker!!!
Ibram is smart. describing the system we know now and were it came from.
BS
Dude got colored contacts in college because he thought his eyes were too dark. That is a whole different level of insecurity
Eyes are the windows to the Soul
Eye contact is more powerful than people realize
@Heru Behudety What does it matter?
@@Jianju69 He’s projecting his insecurities and victim complex ?
Ibrahim Kendi, Debate Coleman Hughes
Fantastic interview
I wish Phil Scott hosted this guy on his show.
I'd like to see him on Phil's show but with the point of providing a solution to the problems that he has explained, just as Dr. Amos Wilson did.
I love your interviews. Getting this book!
The bottom line is that the people in charge rig the system so that they always look like they deserve to be ahead. What flows out of that are racist, sexism, ablism, bigotry against the poor, etc. because the goal of the elites is to create a system in which only their progeny will succeed and to try to convince everyone that the reason they maintain their power is because of merit, not unfair advantage. They have to make people think that it's our fault if we are poor and, by extension, that they deserve their wealth because they are superior. I love how Kendi hits the nail right on the head with this. The tactic of the elites is to keep the majority of us from calling out how unfair it all is and standing together by dividing those of us who they are subjugating. We have to come to realize that the ones subjugating us are ultimately the same ones subjugating nearly everyone else.
Arguments sound more like opinion. Basically he is saying the history of these tests used within the context of their time invalidate the tool of standard tests of any kind today. These people are against any, any benchmarking. Why? They don't like their results.
It is racist if I cannot compete on an equal level and never gave the same effort? Nevermind that Indians, Middle Easterners, and all East Asians excel. They just don't count. Don't even consider the fact that they take the test many times in a second language and STILL score higher.
In other countries they have these tests BECAUSE they are fair. In America some say they are wrong because we don't like the outcome.
Not saying the test should be everything, work ethic, drive, personal direction and luck play half. Standard testing is an important indicator, especially across schools and as a general indicator of... aptitude. If a student has straight As and scores 800 maybe they are not as capable as their school would like you to think. Maybe a student has Bs in a rigorous school but gets a 1200... We need to protect hardworking students from grade inflation.
We need to fight this weakness and pandering to the children of our society. We need to examine outcomes objectively and look truth in the face.
You're right.
Please debate Coleman Hughes.
His book Stamped From The Beginning; The Definitive History Of Racist Ideas In America is very good. I will be purchasing his next book. Very brilliant brother.
BRILLIANT MAN!
I'm confused, am I watching CNN.
William Sr. Donaldson you’re just stupid
cancer is a diet-stress-toxic environment reactions...prevention is the 1st line of defense...
yur suggestions are quite beneficial...
terri a.
Reparation is a pipe dream. I would like to say "I'm not racist" but to tell the truth I am sure I am. I see it as an age old problem. Humans have always been jealous of one another. We want what others have. One way for us to make our selves feel better is to point out some one else that we believe to be lesser. We are all animals living together. We fight over the scraps. Some one is always going to be on top. Until we practice the idea that all people are equal the cancer of racism will continue to grow.
Not a pipe dream. However, I think that your honesty is valuable in creating an equal world. I appreciate it.
Well said!
I think it's good to be honest about these things. But I wonder if you would be racist if you grew up away from civilization. Think of those children that have been away from civilization. They are more primal than we are. They know someone is different from them, but the racism comes from thinking someone is beneath you because of those differences.
If we reset and erased all of these hateful ideas, would we still develop these ideas about the differences of others.
I often wonder about this...
Great interview
as a his storian im thinking u are aware that the term "race" has absolutely no biological founding/meaning among human beings...
there is only the human race which distinguished humans from other life species...
to begin to refrain from referring to human phenotype features, such as level of melanin pigmentation in skin, eyes & hair, as "race"...
i would be most happy to share the scientific method evidence that all are 1 afrikan human race...
terri a.
very good interview
Ask Lebron James how did he get to where he is now? He owe everything to his mother. She knew the value of commitment and found a coach who would act as a father to her son. Have you seen what Indian and Chinese parents do to make their kids excel at Steam? Simple, a lot of pressure, dedication and commitment. Asian get ready waiting for opportunity. We sit down listening to rap music, dancing, selling dope because our role model are gangsters, thieves and drug dealers. We are accommodated and poverty has become our comfort zone. Latinos are the same. They are doomed in the dope game.
Thank you, Democracy Now.
IQ reflects a very narrow spectrum of intelligence. Secondly, IQ is just a test, you can enhace your score with education and practice. But saying the IQ test is racist is baloney.
Capitalism is “racist” but he charges 20k for each speaking appearance
He has every right to make money in this system.. And i bet much of his money goes into spreading truth.
@@topgrain he’s full of shit.
WHAT GROUP OF WHITE PEOPLE TAUGHT US THESE CONCEPTS OF DARK AND LIGHT? this takes intelligence and courage to answer....
Thank you Mr. Kendi- very important and said very well.
I learned a lot . and blessings to you for your spirit in bringing this to the universe
It is a waste of time to argue that these test are racial biased and therefore flawed. Conservatives will never admit to that. It society finds it necessary to test peoples abilities, then progressives should be about the business of developing a 'task' that can effectively measures anyone's abilities. Test are not always accurate in predicting ones performance for a given task.
Slavery made a few white families extremely wealthy for a few generations over 150 years ago. The vast majority of Southern whites were not slaveholders, and in fact resented the institution of slavery. It's just silly to think that modern African Americans are owed any sort of money by modern whites. Whatever wealth was generated from slavery for whites was destroyed during the Civil War. Whatever whites owed blacks after that was paid for in the form of welfare. Today, the average American black is wealthier than the average white globally, and they enjoy numerous unique institutional privileges. Anyone seriously advocating black reparations is simply an anti-white racist.
I AM. Anti racist and anti capitalist and ❤️ this guy! Most important work in ages!
The IQ score is not racist . Some things I agree with him and a lot of things I don’t agree with this young man
It is very racist. It reflects and uses culture to formulate problems. I guaranty you, you will score very low on a test designed by the Roman Empire, or even by black people in the US.
Mutineer9 I scored 161 but IQ score are qualitative in nature and we try to quantitative it incorrectly. There are other ways to measure Bain activity in a more mechanical way . I don’t think there a reason to discuss this as IQ score do not affect your success in life . There are irrelevant and not racist in nature .
@@chadnasir6387 I agree IQ scores do not qualitative intelligence correctly. Actually we can not even define what intelligence is. What I disagree is your assessment that IQ score do not effect your success in life. In many places it was used and still used as a criteria of hiring and promotion or access to education. For example, typical English test build in same line as IQ score test and will filter people from different cultures. They will not able to pass it, not because they understand English less then some one else, but because they will not know cultural implications of questions.
Latino/Hispanic/Mexican Is not a race. Repeating it over and over again in the media will never make it true. Those people can claim minority and Caucasian at the same time.
There are no races.
@@SoulJiuJitsu Tell that to the US Government, the police, Eugenicist and White Supremacist. I would love to hear their response.
@Peggy Wiley It's one thing to claim blood, lineage or heritage but it's something totally different to have your government recognize and provide resources, benefits and set asides as a result.
There isn't mush to say, Trump and company are just trash! Absolute trash holes. The Republiklan party need to be boycotted.
Sorry, but if we are to fight racism we need brighter, braver, better informed fighters.
I am half Native American, Quechwa.
As with any argumentative feud, we must start by acknowledging facts not only wholesale denouncing everything on a single argument. Racism is real but it is our duty to demonstrably and factually show where and how it exists. As with feminism it doesn't suffice to say "because there are power inequalities across cultural collectives and sexes therefore there is racism and sexism on every difference"
We should be brave and assume the hard work of meticulously finding the concrete instances in which racism works, utlining its cultural, psychological, political and economic incentives. Moral considerations are necessary but after we do the analytic and descriptive work.
Otherwise we play into the hands of this racist dynamics.
Here is your problem (and our problem as a society), Women and men actually exist!!! Race does not exist! There are no European groups, on the face of this planet that have skin that is "snow white", there are no groups on this planet that have skin that is coal BLACK! The creation of RACIAL categories which the U.S. govt still uses (when a Cop stops me they will put BLACK as my race on the ticket, same thing with U.S. Census, and most applications including Bank loans, and Jobs us BLACK & WHITE categorizing as well). Please tell me what country a BLACK person comes from and what country a White person comes from???? Please tell me What shade of skin tone is dark enough to make a black person BLACK and what shade of skin tone is light enought to make someone white???? Are you familiar with the phenomena called "passing", where people who have parents who are not classified as "white" actually pass for white??? This is the fundamental problem, my son will be classified as BLACK as soon as he comes out of the womb, that designation had NOTHING to do with any particular tribe, heritage, country, language nor culture. That term will be used by EVERYONE who he encounters his entire life even though the term has only ONE purpose... to literally black-ball him socially. This is the fundamental problem with your statement, do you really believe that there are "Black" people????
@@insidejah9293 Name a single line where I affirmed "race" exists. Precisely I wrote "racism" So your whole premise is wrong. Sorry, try again.
So no, it's not MY problem, it's YOURS. If you can't read and try to project your own ignorance. BTW I have always criticised why descendants from the latter African forced migration (we are all Africans and indeed our hyplogroups are all mixed) still construct a main identity around "blackness". "Black caucaus", "Black panthers", "Black lives matters". In East Timor I dated an African girl from Eritrea that shares more of her hyplogroup with Europe than with Congo. Races still do not exist, I have said and written this for ages.
It is a different thing, however, to affirm that different collectives don't have genetic differences. Asians are smarter, and apparently. You may say "Asians" are not a race, they are an arbitrary cathegorisation, but it is not true to say there are abstract, non-precise spheres of genetic concentration. We are all Africans, we had different migration paths, but it is naive and pointless to deny a priori the possibility of differences. E.g. subsharan collectives (again, no "race") seem to have a few physiological differences (muscles and ligaments) that, while marginal, still account for marginal differences that make them better athletes.
Likewise there ARE cultural differences. Most countries where only native Americans, Asian, Subsaharan (if you wish we can distinguish Bantu, Afro_asiatic or other families), Germanic, Latin people reside have different levels of technological and social-organisational transformation. Perhaps it would be better to assume that's fine, that Subsaharans, Natives, Autronesians did NOT NEED to develop further, subsistance was materially assured whereas Germanic, Niponic, Korean needed to simply to survive (also because the British forced Japan, Korea and China to assume capitalism or perish colllectively)
We do have legitimate grievances (a taxi driver in Congo should earn as much as an equally qualififed taxi driver in Frankfurt) but at some point we will have to stop. We can't winge for centuries. BTW we are on the verge of forming a new species, so we better bring justice soon or that ship is sailed.
The root of this problem we have with humanity is that we have given ourselves various excuses for not seeing other people as people like we are. This is the only way we can hate one another. This is the only way we can go to war and kill one another. This is the only way that we can separate out people, not to appreciate the magnificent diversity we have as members of the species Homo sapiens, but in order to divide us so that a few people can subjugate us and force us into perpetual division and perpetual war. I don't care who you think is the primary culprit. This absurdity is being perpetuated upon the whole world and we are at the point of going extinct. We are at the point of going extinct and we have allowed money, that has never been alive, to literally decide whose lives matter and whether or not the lives of our entire species, plus many others, will be able to survive in the only planet we have ever known. At this point, we have to realize that it's absurd. Does profit matter more than people?
You've had great comments! I hope you've looked into the other issues that tie into this. Perhaps read these books and watch these films...if you haven't already done so....
"Protest Kitchen" by Carol Adams
"Sexual Politics of Meat" by Carol Adams
"Unity" and "Earthlings" by Shawn Monson
And watch Cowspiracy and Seaspiracy
im encouraged by the info; however to dismiss native/the most western continents & island indians is quite unfortunate-even biased...
terri a.
Please speak on the $20 Billion lawsuit Byron Allen filed against Comcast and the 1866 Civil Rights Act.
Reparations? Oh shit. Now they want my money. Lol.
just tear it all down! we'll build the plane as we're flying it!
So if your not a racist and you say your not a racist. That means you are a racist ??
So you can't say "I'm not a racist" You can only say I'm an anti-racist..Thanks for teaching us how to speak bro..cut your hair you look like a girl..
And take responsibility for your own self esteem..you cant keep blaming white people.
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Is this the Marxist channel?
No. It is the Truth channel. And that is why it inflames you.
@@topgrain truth about what…fantasyland?
The skin color drama rules. Suppose we stop referring to each other by color? E.g., Americans of European, African, Latin, etc., descent. Why is that difficult?
I can only see that happening if we somehow found life on other planets...then we'd have to call ourselves "Earthlings". Idk what it will take for us to come together.
There is a film called "Unity" that you should watch.
I'm glad to hear this man speak on the bs of the "color blind" argument. It's a form of denial in my opinion. Of course we can see differences in each other. EVERYONE has prejudices, be honest about it. But more importantly, accept that prejudices are wrong, and faulty in logic, no matter how hard it seems.
“...according to the ADL” lol yeah those numbers are reliable
As salaamu alaykum brother
“The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” - Ibram Kendi
This is refreshing to hear and see and how he is shedding light on a lot real facts. To be racist is to be capitalist.
If this younger generation is going to survive to see any kind of old age, it cannot wait for 'permission' to revolt, rebel and resist. It has to push past us older, more sedentary geezers, ignore the grunts and groans we're inevitably going to make, and grab the wheel with both hands.
will crow, this younger generation can’t figure out which bathrooms boys and girls should use.🤷🏾♂️
@@k1dork they're smart, strong, optimistic and aware. They have the tools, the drive and the knowledge. They'll outlast the hate, the bigotry and the foolishness that's become the quicksand of government and corporate corruption. There's no percentage in despair or learned helplessness.
Interested in how he does not disprove the function of intelligence tests and the results (which are about as concrete as any phycology science can get). Instead he is maligning the test as racism. The tests provide raw unbias data. The only racism would be how you interpret that data, like if you thought biology explained the difference. Most genetic studies do not point to biological differences; variance within a group is greater than the differences between.
I don't think anyone knows definitively what explains the difference but the best theory I ever heard was cultural habits are the biggest factor - the life choices of the individuals.
Adam O'Brien This sounds like you are just repeating what Jordan Peterson used to say about IQ tests. It’s never great when someone can point to specific videos/sources that people got their information from. You should think about having a more diverse source for your information.
And using black/Latino culture (whatever you mean by that) to explain disparities is implicitly suggesting that their culture is inferior, since most would accept that intelligence is a universal value. The solution that comes forth from that explanation is that blacks and Latinos should become more White/Asian in their culture.
You also claim that IQ tests provide raw unbiased data. But you have to actually look at the structure of the tests themselves (and the motivations of the people who constructed the tests). The tests cannot be unbiased because there is no objective measure of intelligence. The history of psychology up into recent decades is mired with eugenicist and racist thinking and theory, and the IQ test has this same origin. Even though it has slightly changed over the years, it still uses the types of questions that are geared towards a particular culture and that are easier if you have a particular Western education, which blacks are less likely to have due in large part to poverty. The reason why blacks and Latinos are less likely to succeed in a test geared more towards a White and Western conception of intelligence is not biological but environmental: we have to ask the question of why our standard of intelligence is defined by White Westerners and also what is keeping blacks and Latinos back from succeeding at it. Life choices are determined by economics in the sense that it is more difficult for blacks and Latinos to afford the western education that is required to do well on the tests. It’s not like blacks are taught to join gangs and skip school (which is partly what’s implied when reactionaries use the “life choices” explanation). They are pressured into these things because of their economic and social position in society and by various forms of racism inherent in the social and economic structure. History obviously plays a major role in this as well, which conservatives downplay or ignore, instead trying to focus on the present moment. Well, if the average black man has to start further back than the average white man in the race for education and success, and has to overcome certain structural obstacles, that makes it more difficult to succeed on tests of western intelligence like the IQ test, not to mention other standards that we often use to define success.
@@danilthorstensson8902 then why do Asians score higher than anyone else?
if he got 5 cents every time he said racist
You stop the racial wealth gap as a people by DEVELOPING A STRATEGY TO PRODUCE GOODS, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES ON A HIGH LEVEL AND CONSUME WITH WISDOM AND DISCERNMENT! CREATE CREATE CREATE INSTEAD OF CONSUME CONSUME CONSUME....and the products being consumed come from the capitalist(former slave owners) constructs(they have a strategy....do you)........KNOW PURPOSE!
I see DN is deleting comments that doesnt agree with their narrative...nice censorship DN! Keep up the great work👌
Hilarious.
1) Latin people don't use the work Latinx. It's a clunky word that doesn't flow in a regular conversation and, instead of virtue signaling, you can just say Latin, which is gender neutral.
2)Ibram X. Kendi wants to "ban" Racist ideas. How would he ban them in light of the first amendment? Serious question.
Mike Murillo Would you support Nazi propaganda funded by billionaires being plastered on every storefront in every major city, hypothetically?
@@danilthorstensson8902 : I would actually - as long as they were abiding by all local and federal laws. The 1st amendment protects nazi propaganda.
15:00 "to be truly anti-racist you have to be truly anti-kapitalist"..."they are inter-related"
Socialist
Kendi closed the gap without reparations so why can't others?
This is very interesting, I will buy Ibram's book. Another thing to note with the I.Q. test is that women got higher results than men, so they changed that too! Goes to show you what 'tests' really qualify as. We all have our own strengths and place and purpose, sometimes it's hard to see an individuals quality, even to themselves. Evolution takes time, and some people evolve quicker in one aspects but not another. It is almost impossible to quantify. Love is the panacea, first for ourselves, then so we can love others truly, and balanced. The racism and hatred in this world comes from not loving themselves, from feeling inferior ourselves. We hate others because we hate ourselves, and have the sickness of separation.
Women have never scored better than men on average on IQ tests, or vice versa. What is true about sex differences in IQ scores is that women have a smaller standard deviation than men. This means that there are more smart men than smart women on average, but that there are also more dumb men than dumb women on average.
So.. wait? Keep capitalism/ racism?! Or?!?... Why not tear the system down as it stands now? And create something new?Can you ever use capitalism to pay back the harm done by slavery. By keeping a kinder(?) Form of it going?
There's no right way to do the wrong thing.
Intellectual rigor, nowhere to be found
What are the ways in which he could've been more rigorous in this discussion?
@@DubG9 For one, the mutually contradictory notion that in order to be "anti-racist" one needs to discriminate against some people based on their race. It's nonsense. Destructive, unsupported nonsense.
@@ericfernandez9 only, that's not what he argues. You have a fundamental gap in the understanding of his philosophy and logic.
@@DubG9 Would you like a direct quote from his book?
@@ericfernandez9 yes, please.
damn bro SAT was all i had my grades sucked cant grades be racist instead? or homework?
Ibram X Kendi, A Professor & Intellectual at a Higher Level. His Wife is a True Sadiqa(Loyal Friend, Faithful).
New York Most Segregated School Systems In The US Ha Ha What Tribe Runs New York I Will Give You Three Guesses :-)
Parents that are opposed to the 'SAT test' must not allow their children to participate (boycott) in these racialised and bias test.