The Myth of Race, Debunked in 3 Minutes

Our eyes tell us that people look different. But what do those differences mean? Are they biological? Has race always been with us? How does race affect people today?

Although race has no genetic or scientific basis, the concept of race is important and consequential. Societies use race to establish and justify systems of power, privilege, disenfranchisement, and oppression.

Racial categories are weak proxies for genetic diversity and need to be phased out.

Racist pseudoscience may be on the rise, but science is no ally to racists. Instead, science and history can be powerful allies against bigotry, granting us the clearest view of how people actually are, rather than how we judge them to be.

Racism is a heart disease, and it’s curable.

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) measures attitudes and beliefs that people may be unwilling or unable to report. The IAT may be especially interesting if it shows that you have an implicit attitude that you did not know about.

When you begin to think of yourself as a successful leader, you realize that there are more demands on your time than you can possibly fill. The solution to this challenge is developing a process of effective delegation. However, delegation is an important tool that many leaders hesitate to use.

“How do you shift power in a system?” It is a question I hear and entertain more and more lately, as many of us in nonprofits have worked for decades to create systems change, more often than not with little or underwhelming result.

Over the course of the 20th century, black Americans have lost approximately 12 million acres of land. This mass land dispossession—a war waged by deed of title, which has affected 98 percent of black farmers—can only be called theft, says Atlantic writer Vann R. Newkirk II.

To create an equal society, we must commit to making unbiased choices and being antiracist in all aspects of our lives.