Race isn’t biologically real. That doesn’t mean racism doesn’t exist.Posted in Articles, Media Archive, Social Science, United States, Videos on 2016-06-13 00:10Z by Steven |
Race isn’t biologically real. That doesn’t mean racism doesn’t exist.
Vox
2016-06-11
The first step to fixing a problem is acknowledging it exists. And in the latest episode of MTV’s Decoded, host Franchesca Ramsey breaks down exactly why being colorblind to someone’s race not only doesn’t fix racism but, if anything, she says, actually makes matters worse.
“Have you ever wondered why people say, ‘Oh, I don’t see color’ as a way to fix racism?” Ramsey asks. “Yeah, that doesn’t work.”
Sure, race is not biologically real. But Ramsey points out that resting on that argument alone is part of the problem…
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