Race
Race issues caused our bloodiest war, and still make headlines daily.
Racism Today
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Mass incarceration
We have over two million prisoners, disproportionately black, making our goods.
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The prison-industrial complex has transformed our criminal justice system since the 1970’s. Fewer than five percent of criminal cases go to trial, so many prisoners may be innocent.
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What can you do?
Just be good to people you meet, and avoid tribalism. That’s about all you can do.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than “Try to be a little kinder”. — Aldous Huxley
Counter-Propaganda
Speeches
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Just as a white man has different skin color from a black man, so it is quite possible that he also has a somewhat different mind. But given what we know of evolution, it is not very likely. The evolutionary pressures that have shaped the human mind—principally competitive relations with kin members, tribal allies, and sexual partners—are and have been the same for white and black men and were at work before the ancestors of whites left Africa 100,000 years ago. While skin color is affected by things such as climate, which differs markedly between Africa and northern Europe, the shape of the mind is affected only very marginally by nonhuman problems such as what kind of game to hunt or how to keep warm or cool. Infinitely more important is how to deal with fellow human beings, and that is the same problem everywhere.
— Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Questions
Hey, Dan, what’s your race?
My parents are from Rajasthan, India. However, DNA testing shows I’m part Asian and Melanesian. So, like everyone else, I’m mixed.
Most non-white Americans have been abused (e.g. slavery, relocation, deportation, internment), so Americans are conditioned by decades or centuries of propaganda to label and mistreat them. Race is a product of violence, a contrived excuse for theft and murder.
But Indian-Americans have never been subject to a hate campaign by the American government, and I feel accepted for who I am. I love America, and there’s little I wouldn’t do for my country.
I want more! Anything else I should read?
- “Fewer Than Half of Americans Under Age 18 Are White” by William Frey
- “Half of Black Males, 40% of White Males Arrested by Age 23” by Robert Brame
- “Latinos and Skin Color” by Luis Noe-Bustamente
- “The Forgotten History of the Purging of the Chinese from America” by Michael Luo
- “How Profits From Opium Shaped 19th-Century Boston” by Martha Bebinger
- “In China: The 100-Year Storm on the Horizon” by Ray Dalio
- “India: Another China or Another Brazil?” by Michael Roberts
- “Will India Get Too Hot to Work?” by the McKinsey Global Institute
- “A Short History of India in Eight Maps” by The Economist
- “Modi’s Audacious Plan for India” by Walter Mead
- “My Own Private India” by Joel Stein
- “The Racial Self-Identification of South Asians in the United States” by Ann Morning
- “A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination” by Marianne Bertrand
- “Racist Love” by Frank Chin
- “Millennials Are Just About as Racist as Their Parents” by Scott Clement
- “Generation X Faces a Bleak, Impoverished Old Age” by Ted Rall
- “The Obama Factor” by David Garrow
- “I Know Why Poor Whites Chant Trump, Trump, Trump” by Jonna Ivin
- “The Great Replacement” by Kevin DeAnna
- “The ‘Becoming White’ Thesis Revisited” by Philip Yang
- “Implicit Association Test - Race” by Project Implicit
Thank you for reading!