I've always sort of thought of 'races' as sort of like breeds. like how animals have breeds. because really, humans are just intelligent animals, right?
But at the same time, being that we are the most intelligent, i should think that we would realize that we're all the same creature, and not care about the breeds. :/
@AreitoWatter Jim Crow segregation was all too real in the U.S., but after Brown vs Board of Education the U.S. no longer allows enforced segregation in pubic schools; however there is still de facto school segregation because of the massive housing segregation that still exists. Schools tally by race to measure results and raise the bar for all w/ the No Child Left Behind law, and police tally by race to track discrimination in policing; still trying to figure out why the census tracks 'race'.
In Brazil they have over 137 racial categories however there's only 5 categories in the Brazilian census. The five categories in the Brazil Census are Brancos (White), Pretos (Black), pardo (brown), Amarelos (Yellow, i.e., East Asian), and indigenous.
I taught my kids that color is nothing. As my other part of my comment says, my license in science, I too have always explained it to the kids in a scientific way. God bless you and your beautiful girl. You have a good heart. The world needs more people like this.
@indibabs122275 Like they say: "Color is only skin deep". I've recently learned the terms haplogroup, haplotype, phenotype, and cline. All of these are terms we can use instead of the antiquated term "race".
God bless you. It is so nice to see a white person doing this video. I am black and hispanic mixed. I live in Indiana , good ol kkk capital. Being a female added to what I get. I am now 35 but I got my associates in clinical lab science at age 24. I am now a fully licensed clinical lab scientist, and its amazing the difference in treatment I get based off of sight. I have also had patients tell me that they would not let me collect blood from them when I was a phlebot. before I got my license.
@indibabs122275 Thank you Barbara. There are some other European-American people working for the cause as well, like this bunch at Multicultural Familia: Chantilly Patiño, Jennifer Saleem, Jen Marshall Duncan, Donna Sparrow. There is also A.D. Powell, the author of “Passing” For Who You Really Are.
"Lewontin's Fallacy" written in 2003 by Cambridge professor A.F Edwards actually proved that race has firm biological basis.
But race is way more in depth than just skin color, or any pigment for that matter. I hate how terms like "black" or "white" have become color metaphors for race. I have met northern Asians and native Americans paler than me.
I would prefer the terms Indo-European/ Aryan, African, Meso-American etc. on the census, that would be much more appropriate.
@ancestoralmemory I like the term Mesoamerican. I don't like the term Ayran (maybe that's a U.S. thing). Indo-European is a confusing term to me. Race is a continuum, a cline. More specific words are phenotype, haplotype, halplogroup, and genotype.
@OfficialGetGln Yeah I suppose "Aryan" is a bit politically incorrect since WW2, a shame I think. Indo-European is the term most anthropologists seem to use in the contemporary era instead for the same thing. I also analyze race according to haplogroups, haplotypes etc. anyway, since they are the original indicators, making it easier to analyze a mixed person's ethnic heritage, since physical indicators are often blended. But they definitely need to remove the "color" descriptions.
I always check other on those forms both of my parents are from Trinidad my mom is Indian and dad is mixed black (Nigerian decent) and french on his fathers side and his mother is spanish ...so i'm all mixed up
great video , your daughter is so adorable......my sister in law is from Northern Africa and I found it interesting that they consider her white there (she is arab and has a fair skin tone)
@brooss Good question my brother. I would also like to know why some governments insist on asking our "race" / ethnicity and why so many people freely answer the question - as if it's not offensive or an invasion of privacy.
@brooss The only useful sociological data that I've seen from the "race" data on the census - is the racial housing segration maps that the government makes which shows it still MASSIVELY exists. I just saw those maps on the webpage thesocietypages . org socimages - search for census
@brooss Do you think most people consider foreign national labels as marginalizing? My wife doesn't think so. But, I do think that kind of label could be marginalizing - it depends on the tone of voice. Alternatively, we could get rid of the false "white" & "black" labels, replacing them with European-American, African-American, Jamaican-American and such.
I love this video. Back in 2003 when I was in college, my English teacher had us view a video on race. The video challenged the stigma of race. The video argued race is a stigma man has "invented", so to speak. There really is not such a thing as race. If there is such a thing, then we are all apart of the human race. I wish I could remember the name of the video because I would upload it here and get people to watch it.
@jnqidowu1 Thank you for the compliment. I have plans to make a follow up video explaining "race" from the perspective of a civil rights lawyer fighting hate crimes; from a sociologists gathering statistics; from a politician researching target markets; and from a doctor. I need to do more research.
I love what you are doing, and I am in such awe of how you are raising your children... If you could see me, you would also see a standing ovation and big smile! Thank you for recognizing that I am human, and not the color of my skin :D
all I am saying is try focusing on real matters as to how we can fix/ heal our problems when it boils down to fix our horrible problems of education that we never had till we cut 1/2 a days education in 1/2 to teach our kids Spanish and English and divide us into different skin color and languages... I DEMAND EVERYONE be treated equal regardless of skin color but ALSO abide by our flag, language and countries ways to be able to enjoy the rites me and you do.
my Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Irish are ALL white and so are ALL of your European descent races regardless of when you white people say Spanish or Italian aren't white and German are part Asian... you ARE FULL WHITE my friend... I don't make this trivial crap about me being racially confused and how it fits in the stimulus package if someone says "This guy has a flat nose, big lips and long, dark native American hair with white skin."
okay... your daughter was born mixed as I am... I am native American, white and part black... my dad's dad was German, his mom was Italian, Spanish and Portuguese... my mom's Irish, native American and part black... you like to break apart your native European descent and say how you are not white because you have some European mixed with color descent in you and use your daughter as your crutch to fight racism... how's about you quit talking about race and more about fixing our economy problems
@oolibrice Amen my sister. The birth form that we fill out in California also asks ethnicity and race of the baby. However, there is no place to put down the percentage of this race or that race. It is so un-scientific. It is ridiculous.
@OfficialGetGln not much different... noone is really black or white like you made a point... i guess you were using paint sample cards... that was a good idea... being i just bouhgt pure white paint and am also considered white... big difference between colors though... have to run to work on house.. you have a great dy !!! peace... amunra...
@Stepper4life15AZ I think you're the first one to mention that part where I was joking - of course; later I found out that the census in Brazil actually uses color instead of race or ethnicity. You can see a sample of the Brazil census via the link in the description box of this video. It's the third arrow down ► "The 'race' question on different country's censuses."
Color mixed with white will always give you color so I think the white race could be dying out.. and because of this black population control has been going on for years. Race is important to the powers that be and this is why it is listed on the Census
@OfficialGetGln hahaha. really ? ... search it on Youtube - it's all there - and a "New Race" that you mention is still Black ...just different shades of Black
... there was a time when every man was part of his mother, and (earlier still) part of his father as well, and when they were part of his grandparents. If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing--rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other. ~ C. S. Lewis
The "white" category has become more inclusive throughout U.S. history. Early U.S. labels where "Irish race", "Italian race" - those have been morphed into the misnomer "white". Later Mexicans were added to the "white" group (this was an agreement after the Mexican American war so that Mexicans would not be segregated due to the existing Jim Crow laws. Later middle easterners were added to the "white" category of the census as well. These are legal "race" labels.
Since people self identify their ethnicity, culture and "race", they can move between these labels as their mood changes. How we label ourselves has much to do with wether we prefer to identify with the historical oppressor or with the historically oppressed.
They used census information to round up innocent Japanese-American families and lock them away in prison camps after the Pearl Harbor attacks. Paranoia and classification are a terrible combination.
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@prettyblackwomen1 Yeah. I was just being goofy. I really want the census to remove the race and ethnicity question. For the rest of my life I will check the "Other" box and write in Human.
In the 1940 census, Mexican Americans were re-classified as White, due to widespread protests by the Mexican American community and the World War II-era Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration's policies of promoting national, "patriotic" unity by reorganizing racial categories to make all ethnic groups "white" and or "Americans" if not white.
The 1930 U.S. census revoked generic "white" status for Mexican Americans due to protests from Euro-Americans. The new form asked for "color or race" and census workers were instructed to "write ‘W’ for White; ’Mex’ for Mexican."
From 1850 through 1920: All Mexicans were legally (though not always socially) considered "White" either because they were considered to be of full Spanish heritage, or because of treaty obligations to Spaniards and Mexicans that conferred citizenship status at a time when whiteness was a prerequisite for U.S. citizenship.
I would pick C, extremist scientist and some others want us to believe this so we can have separation and discord. If their was such thing as different race, what do you call a child who looks purely white that has a dark skinned mother and a white father? Things like this happen all the time, where a majority would never assume that child was born from a parent with a really dark complexion.
I appreciated this video very much. The whole history of "race" is complex and, really, just a history of subordination and power-making. The government proclaims the census to be required so as to provide better services to its people but, in actuality, shouldn't the government be considering all kinds of people to begin with?
@baygrl518 Amen. Yes the government should treat us all equally, not separate us by race, class, ethnicity, or gender. There are so many blends of race, class, ethnicity and even genders that it's absurd to even attempt to do that, and even more importantly there is no beneficial reason. The only reason the census started counting race was because African-Americans were counted at 3/5 of a person. After that craziness ended, the census should have ended the race question.
Powerful video, thank you. How come white people in the US are willing to fill in “white” as their social identity and make compromises on a lower level when it comes to their ethnic background? For example, how come white people are willing to identify solely as “white” instead of e.g. “ethnic Balkan”?
@OneSummerSky Good question. The reason most "white" people are willing to be labeled "white" and even label themselves "white" is because it allows them to be a member of a team larger than their individual heritage. The laws of the U.S. had been set up to benefit "white", so "white" people would sell out their heritage to be a member of the un-oppressed.
@OfficialGetGln How can white people say there is no such thing as the "wages of whiteness" when the first thing they have thrown over-board the moment they set foot on this land, is their ethnic identity in order to be part of the white category?
What are your thoughts on mixed race identification?
@OneSummerSky I just ordered the book "Wages of Whiteness" to see what that's all about. People have the liberty to self identify in general and on the U.S. census (since 2000). However, when enrolling in public school it is required for the parents to identify the mixed "race" child as "Two or more 'races'". If the parents refuse to identify their child - school or district personnel is required to guess the 'race' or ethnicity.
@OfficialGetGln Awesome, the book is a classic. I read it in Uni. With regard to racial identification, I can't recall any other country in the world where people are obliged (or even asked!!) to fill in official forms regarding their racial background. It is totally not-done anywhere outside the US for as far as I know.
Respond to this video... Why does the government ask all these questions? Are they preparing to divide the people by these categories? And why do so many of us volunteer this personal information to our government?
@OfficialGetGln I think in my case, as much as I know my local and national government, the long term goal is really to see what sort of services need to be provided to a changing society. This is very good in a responsible government. We do get good government services where I am from. I get free hospital care and free doctor care. I went to the emergency room a on Christmas eve and it was quick and free. Spent about 1.5 hours there.
I too would be suspicious in the USA. Corrupt government.
@WarrenEdwardBuffet My concern is that I know that government has done unjust things in the past with the data they collect. In the U.S. they rounded up all the Japanese along the Pacific coast during WWII and locked them away for two years. I wish the government would provide equal benefits to everyone and stop counting us up into all different categories.
@OfficialGetGln Yeah you do have a point there. I guess it comes down to data being used responsibly to really improve services. I can ask questions of religion, because different services might be needed for different religious people. You are right, knowing individual's skin color doesn't make a difference. However, it does make sense if the government has matched certain skin color with certain attributes.
yes it is pretty FRUSTRATING when they make you check a box of race on whats called the melting pot, kinda hypocritical to our nature, everytime its the worse, especially when they say only check one, like you can possible dumb yourself and judge yourself ignorantly like they do. . . . . . .
i'm half puerto rican half irish, i look all irish, i wish we lived in a place where it doesnt matter becuase to hear people talk when they dont know what you are, its shamefull especially when times are bad people look for scapegoats . so i wish that it didnt matter but it does and thats one of those harsh reallities we have to live with till we progress past it as a whole people
@fearspork Amen my brother. I've been planning to make a video talking about how our society scapegoats the victims instead of placing blame on the broken laws and the people in power who manipulate laws to benefit themselves.
@Derax2 I guess it would be okay for doctors to ask our ethnic background - they have to keep our information secret from the HIPA (Health Information Protection Act). Even on the U.S. Census website I didn't see them disclose that they use our ethnicity information counts for immigration quotas. I don't see how that is fair to immigrants.
What a relief! So glad there are other people that think like I do. HOWEVER, even though race may not exist, sadly sometimes we're treated differently because of the way we look. (...and on the census they don't ask if we're straight or gay or what religion we are or if we're fat and those are also characteristics that sometimes lead others to discriminate against us.) Great video!!
Great video. But sad to say that race matters to a lot of people. If this country wasn't built on race itself it wouldn't matter. But it is a way to divide people in boxes. And also for different people to get help in inportant thinks they maybe over looked. Truth is this was and still today a very racist country, but we are getting better some what.
Great vid on the myth of race at my local library!
Race : the power of an illusion produced by California Newsreel
Summary: Episode one explores how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race. Episode two questions the belief that race has always been with us. It traces the race concept to the European conquest of the Americas. Episode three focuses on how our institutions shape and create race.
Ur vids seems very interesting, valid, & u seem 2 be making a very good point here. I can hardly hear u guys tho. It's not my laptop b/c l can hear other vids very loud, so can u pls post subtitles so l can hear what guys r saying.
thanks!
If ur saying hat l think/assume ur saying l totally agree but l just have no idea what ur saying b/c it's too low so l'm scared 2 agree.
@1ATMMUSIC During WWII the U.S. used census records to locate Japanese on the main land and then placed them in internment camps for four years. Strangely enough, if you were Japanese and lived in Hawaii during WWII you were not rounded up.
@OfficialGetGln No offense but I think th census is straight up b.s. They just use it to increase the so called "white population" demographically and to manipulate society. I think categorizing people into races is pointless and only perpetuates more racism and hate.
@chsn09 I agree with you. Even using the term "race" serves to divide us. Did you know public schools force the parents to choose a "race"? If the parents don't choose a "race" the teacher has to guess which "race" the child is. This is supposedly to monitor academic progress by "race" and close the achievement gaps in education. They should simply monitor academic achievement by zip code. The Academic Performance Index lists scores by "race" instead of by zip code!
@OfficialGetGln But even using zip codes can be manipulative because some zip codes may have certain zone areas that are of one "race" etc. Race as you know does NOT even exist and scientists have even discovered there is NO biological or genetic basis to race. All of this is just manmade. Race is NOT even done properly in the USA. Everything reverts to black and white in reality. HISPANIC/LATINO is NOT a race and they put "white" as their default race when Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.
The U.S. government uses the term white instead of European-American to elude the fact that white people are not native to the Americas. Likewise, the term Indian is used to elude the fact that Indigenous Native American's were in the Americas first, and in turn, all other people are foreigners to the Americas.
In 1997, the only countries affected by the [immigration quota] ceilings were Mexico, India, and the Philippines; since 1965, per-country caps have “had particularly harsh and unintended effects on Mexico and the Philippines.” -Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
I'm glad you are teaching your daughter not to be racially devisive but educating her about the truth in why people are 'different colors' and how this really is not a significant thing for anyone to have to report this to our government. But then again if that's mentioned I could be a conspiracy theorist. But this is a great video!
In 1997, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists urged the American governmnet to phase out the use of race as a data category and to substitute ethnic categories instead. Geneticists studying DNA ... were also concluding that race as a biological category made no sense. --Nell Irvin Painter
@OfficialGetGln I am 3/8 European, 3/8 Slavic and 2/8 Gypsy. And yet, on the census I had to check Caucasian. It really makes no sense. We are the human race made up of various ethnicities.
cline: a gradient of morphological or physiological change in a group of related organisms usually along a line of environmental or geographic transition
While the dismantling of the quota system removed explicit ethnic discrimination from American immigration policy and heralded an era of liberalization, current immigration policies continue to have discriminatory effects. -Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
I don't know if races exist or not but I'm sure that race means something socially.I live in a country where there's no ethnic census and no affirmative action(I think the 2 things are linked) and it's really hard to get a job or rent a flat when you're not white.From my point of view,collecting data on race would not be a bad thing if it could allow us to have a form of affirmative action.
@Thebraids There is one human species and an infinite variety of human clines. Affirmative action is controversial and will continue to be debated for years.
@OfficialGetGln and yall was getting killed by the natives nubian/africans and other natives so bad yall had to split them up and act all nice and calm like you are now with your fake gods for control and acting like a non threat.... acting like a friend but really wanting to kill the natives.. now yall want to join hand with ppl yall stole EVERYTHING FROM AS ONE RACE? HAHAHA you parasites haha.. nature will slay evil again... no reply will be read..
@warcraft125 I agree with you. First I believed what I learned in school about different races. Then I thought there is one race -- the human race. Then a youtuber sent me a video ' confirming' that races exist. I understand each side of the argument. How many races there are and how many blends of races there are will continue to be debated by anthropologists and geneticists indefinitely.
"Those who subscribe to this opinion [that there are no human races] are obviously ignorant of modern biology."--The Biology of Race and the Concept of Equality (2002), Ernst Walter Mayr
@FTWINZOR My child will be an adult in 12 years. She will need to vote and fill out a census. Please enlighten us with your correct understanding? She is free to read your wisdom.
I've always sort of thought of 'races' as sort of like breeds. like how animals have breeds. because really, humans are just intelligent animals, right?
But at the same time, being that we are the most intelligent, i should think that we would realize that we're all the same creature, and not care about the breeds. :/
FluffyPuff16 1 week ago
Maybe Wasicun (the U.S. Govt.) is preparing for the possibility of instituting something kin to Apartheid? :(
AreitoWatter 3 months ago
@AreitoWatter Jim Crow segregation was all too real in the U.S., but after Brown vs Board of Education the U.S. no longer allows enforced segregation in pubic schools; however there is still de facto school segregation because of the massive housing segregation that still exists. Schools tally by race to measure results and raise the bar for all w/ the No Child Left Behind law, and police tally by race to track discrimination in policing; still trying to figure out why the census tracks 'race'.
OfficialGetGln 3 months ago
I never questioned this things but this a really a good discussion!
SFCuts 3 months ago
In Brazil they have over 137 racial categories however there's only 5 categories in the Brazilian census. The five categories in the Brazil Census are Brancos (White), Pretos (Black), pardo (brown), Amarelos (Yellow, i.e., East Asian), and indigenous.
DaBigSun 4 months ago
Never thought of entering an actual color, im going to see what I resemble most. I usually just check all the boxes.
ingimotomovement 5 months ago
I taught my kids that color is nothing. As my other part of my comment says, my license in science, I too have always explained it to the kids in a scientific way. God bless you and your beautiful girl. You have a good heart. The world needs more people like this.
Barbara
indibabs122275 5 months ago
@indibabs122275 Like they say: "Color is only skin deep". I've recently learned the terms haplogroup, haplotype, phenotype, and cline. All of these are terms we can use instead of the antiquated term "race".
OfficialGetGln 5 months ago
God bless you. It is so nice to see a white person doing this video. I am black and hispanic mixed. I live in Indiana , good ol kkk capital. Being a female added to what I get. I am now 35 but I got my associates in clinical lab science at age 24. I am now a fully licensed clinical lab scientist, and its amazing the difference in treatment I get based off of sight. I have also had patients tell me that they would not let me collect blood from them when I was a phlebot. before I got my license.
indibabs122275 5 months ago
@indibabs122275 Thank you Barbara. There are some other European-American people working for the cause as well, like this bunch at Multicultural Familia: Chantilly Patiño, Jennifer Saleem, Jen Marshall Duncan, Donna Sparrow. There is also A.D. Powell, the author of “Passing” For Who You Really Are.
OfficialGetGln 5 months ago
"Lewontin's Fallacy" written in 2003 by Cambridge professor A.F Edwards actually proved that race has firm biological basis.
But race is way more in depth than just skin color, or any pigment for that matter. I hate how terms like "black" or "white" have become color metaphors for race. I have met northern Asians and native Americans paler than me.
I would prefer the terms Indo-European/ Aryan, African, Meso-American etc. on the census, that would be much more appropriate.
ancestoralmemory 6 months ago
@ancestoralmemory I like the term Mesoamerican. I don't like the term Ayran (maybe that's a U.S. thing). Indo-European is a confusing term to me. Race is a continuum, a cline. More specific words are phenotype, haplotype, halplogroup, and genotype.
OfficialGetGln 6 months ago
@OfficialGetGln Yeah I suppose "Aryan" is a bit politically incorrect since WW2, a shame I think. Indo-European is the term most anthropologists seem to use in the contemporary era instead for the same thing. I also analyze race according to haplogroups, haplotypes etc. anyway, since they are the original indicators, making it easier to analyze a mixed person's ethnic heritage, since physical indicators are often blended. But they definitely need to remove the "color" descriptions.
ancestoralmemory 6 months ago
I always check other on those forms both of my parents are from Trinidad my mom is Indian and dad is mixed black (Nigerian decent) and french on his fathers side and his mother is spanish ...so i'm all mixed up
puddingpopsizmyhboo 8 months ago
great video , your daughter is so adorable......my sister in law is from Northern Africa and I found it interesting that they consider her white there (she is arab and has a fair skin tone)
puddingpopsizmyhboo 8 months ago
You Are The Man Glen!!
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@brooss Good question my brother. I would also like to know why some governments insist on asking our "race" / ethnicity and why so many people freely answer the question - as if it's not offensive or an invasion of privacy.
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brooss 9 months ago
@brooss The only useful sociological data that I've seen from the "race" data on the census - is the racial housing segration maps that the government makes which shows it still MASSIVELY exists. I just saw those maps on the webpage thesocietypages . org socimages - search for census
OfficialGetGln 9 months ago
@OfficialGetGln now i kind of understand the video a little better~ thanks for all your patience in trying to explain the situation. :)
brooss 9 months ago
@brooss I like your line of thinking. There can be "white", "black", and "tan color". Brazil does a similar thing on their census.
getgln 9 months ago
@getgln interesting! gonna have to look into that. thanks.
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@brooss Do you think most people consider foreign national labels as marginalizing? My wife doesn't think so. But, I do think that kind of label could be marginalizing - it depends on the tone of voice. Alternatively, we could get rid of the false "white" & "black" labels, replacing them with European-American, African-American, Jamaican-American and such.
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brooss 9 months ago
What a wonderful video. Favorited, liked and it will be shared.
BlakeBarbieDoll 9 months ago 2
WOW! smh!
sonofgrace88 10 months ago
I love this video. Back in 2003 when I was in college, my English teacher had us view a video on race. The video challenged the stigma of race. The video argued race is a stigma man has "invented", so to speak. There really is not such a thing as race. If there is such a thing, then we are all apart of the human race. I wish I could remember the name of the video because I would upload it here and get people to watch it.
jnqidowu1 10 months ago 2
@jnqidowu1 Thank you for the compliment. I have plans to make a follow up video explaining "race" from the perspective of a civil rights lawyer fighting hate crimes; from a sociologists gathering statistics; from a politician researching target markets; and from a doctor. I need to do more research.
OfficialGetGln 10 months ago
1.23-1.26 there's ONE RACE ...1 RACE, REAL TALK RITE THERE!
FuLLYBLuNTsPAGE 11 months ago
Just found your channel. Very cool content :)!
whereismybailouttv 11 months ago
THE TOY LEGO's ARE WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!
QWILDER 11 months ago
cool!!!
msdetroitswag 11 months ago
Great video!
gerald2003r 11 months ago
I love what you are doing, and I am in such awe of how you are raising your children... If you could see me, you would also see a standing ovation and big smile! Thank you for recognizing that I am human, and not the color of my skin :D
MyNameIsNicole1 11 months ago 2
all I am saying is try focusing on real matters as to how we can fix/ heal our problems when it boils down to fix our horrible problems of education that we never had till we cut 1/2 a days education in 1/2 to teach our kids Spanish and English and divide us into different skin color and languages... I DEMAND EVERYONE be treated equal regardless of skin color but ALSO abide by our flag, language and countries ways to be able to enjoy the rites me and you do.
LiveFastDieHung 11 months ago
my Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Irish are ALL white and so are ALL of your European descent races regardless of when you white people say Spanish or Italian aren't white and German are part Asian... you ARE FULL WHITE my friend... I don't make this trivial crap about me being racially confused and how it fits in the stimulus package if someone says "This guy has a flat nose, big lips and long, dark native American hair with white skin."
LiveFastDieHung 11 months ago
okay... your daughter was born mixed as I am... I am native American, white and part black... my dad's dad was German, his mom was Italian, Spanish and Portuguese... my mom's Irish, native American and part black... you like to break apart your native European descent and say how you are not white because you have some European mixed with color descent in you and use your daughter as your crutch to fight racism... how's about you quit talking about race and more about fixing our economy problems
LiveFastDieHung 11 months ago
lol i check about five boxes on there =)
msmelody1960 11 months ago
i love this because most people dont know what race they fall under anyways we need to do away with it
oolibrice 11 months ago
@oolibrice Amen my sister. The birth form that we fill out in California also asks ethnicity and race of the baby. However, there is no place to put down the percentage of this race or that race. It is so un-scientific. It is ridiculous.
OfficialGetGln 11 months ago
@OfficialGetGln so true. so un-scientific.
schwarzkopf79 10 months ago
I wouldn't have it listed
titoferni29 1 year ago
@titoferni29 Amen. I agree.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
awesome vid... i would have presented differently..but well done and thumbs up... amunra...
amun8isis 1 year ago
@amun8isis thank you. how would you have presented it?
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
@OfficialGetGln not much different... noone is really black or white like you made a point... i guess you were using paint sample cards... that was a good idea... being i just bouhgt pure white paint and am also considered white... big difference between colors though... have to run to work on house.. you have a great dy !!! peace... amunra...
amun8isis 1 year ago
lol she is so cute
1Mssimplybeautiful 1 year ago
@1Mssimplybeautiful Thank you Msbeautiful =)
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
@OfficialGetGln your welcome :)
1Mssimplybeautiful 1 year ago
good idea i think i will finds my sample color and put that down
Stepper4life15AZ 1 year ago
@Stepper4life15AZ I think you're the first one to mention that part where I was joking - of course; later I found out that the census in Brazil actually uses color instead of race or ethnicity. You can see a sample of the Brazil census via the link in the description box of this video. It's the third arrow down ► "The 'race' question on different country's censuses."
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
Color mixed with white will always give you color so I think the white race could be dying out.. and because of this black population control has been going on for years. Race is important to the powers that be and this is why it is listed on the Census
jenholland 1 year ago
@jenholland No color will cease to exist for two reasons.
1. Many people have a preference for people of their own color.
2. Future genetic engineering will enable people to customize their children.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
@OfficialGetGln - i agree -- but I feel without Black Population control ... "White" would of died out or at least be way out numbered by now
jenholland 1 year ago
@jenholland I'm not familiar with "Black Population control".
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
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jenholland 1 year ago
@OfficialGetGln hahaha. really ? ... search it on Youtube - it's all there - and a "New Race" that you mention is still Black ...just different shades of Black
jenholland 1 year ago
... there was a time when every man was part of his mother, and (earlier still) part of his father as well, and when they were part of his grandparents. If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing--rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other. ~ C. S. Lewis
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
The "white" category has become more inclusive throughout U.S. history. Early U.S. labels where "Irish race", "Italian race" - those have been morphed into the misnomer "white". Later Mexicans were added to the "white" group (this was an agreement after the Mexican American war so that Mexicans would not be segregated due to the existing Jim Crow laws. Later middle easterners were added to the "white" category of the census as well. These are legal "race" labels.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
Since people self identify their ethnicity, culture and "race", they can move between these labels as their mood changes. How we label ourselves has much to do with wether we prefer to identify with the historical oppressor or with the historically oppressed.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing this and also, I agree with you 100,000,000,000,000,000 AND MORE percent. Thanks for showing the truth and I subscribed
LevelsofDaneJa 1 year ago
@LevelsofDaneJa Thank you DaneJa. That keeps me motivated on my mission against government putting inventory labels on us.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
GOOD VID.. SHARING 2 FACE BOOK..
tepperway 1 year ago
@tepperway Thank you! Have a nice weekend and stuff Tepperway!
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
They used census information to round up innocent Japanese-American families and lock them away in prison camps after the Pearl Harbor attacks. Paranoia and classification are a terrible combination.
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erickdircks 1 year ago
That skin color thing will never work because color is different from "race"
there are native people in India and native people in African that are the same color but from completely different genetic and phenotype lineages.
The same is true for many other groups of people.
prettyblackwomen1 1 year ago
@prettyblackwomen1 Yeah. I was just being goofy. I really want the census to remove the race and ethnicity question. For the rest of my life I will check the "Other" box and write in Human.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
@OfficialGetGln
hahaha....think of what would happen if everyone did that?...humm...interesting results eh?
prettyblackwomen1 1 year ago
Nice video.
jkbezo 1 year ago
@jkbezo Thank you my brother.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
In the 1940 census, Mexican Americans were re-classified as White, due to widespread protests by the Mexican American community and the World War II-era Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration's policies of promoting national, "patriotic" unity by reorganizing racial categories to make all ethnic groups "white" and or "Americans" if not white.
-Wikipedia, Mexican American, Race and Ethnicity
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
The 1930 U.S. census revoked generic "white" status for Mexican Americans due to protests from Euro-Americans. The new form asked for "color or race" and census workers were instructed to "write ‘W’ for White; ’Mex’ for Mexican."
-Wikipedia, Mexican American, Race and ethnicity
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
From 1850 through 1920: All Mexicans were legally (though not always socially) considered "White" either because they were considered to be of full Spanish heritage, or because of treaty obligations to Spaniards and Mexicans that conferred citizenship status at a time when whiteness was a prerequisite for U.S. citizenship.
-Wikipedia, Mexican American, Race and ethnicity
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
I would pick C, extremist scientist and some others want us to believe this so we can have separation and discord. If their was such thing as different race, what do you call a child who looks purely white that has a dark skinned mother and a white father? Things like this happen all the time, where a majority would never assume that child was born from a parent with a really dark complexion.
PalaisCristalLLC 1 year ago
THANKS FOR THIS !
Keoshia311 1 year ago 2
@Keoshia311 You're welcome my sister.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
I appreciated this video very much. The whole history of "race" is complex and, really, just a history of subordination and power-making. The government proclaims the census to be required so as to provide better services to its people but, in actuality, shouldn't the government be considering all kinds of people to begin with?
Love the videos I've seen so far *subscribe*
baygrl518 1 year ago
@baygrl518 Amen. Yes the government should treat us all equally, not separate us by race, class, ethnicity, or gender. There are so many blends of race, class, ethnicity and even genders that it's absurd to even attempt to do that, and even more importantly there is no beneficial reason. The only reason the census started counting race was because African-Americans were counted at 3/5 of a person. After that craziness ended, the census should have ended the race question.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
Powerful video, thank you. How come white people in the US are willing to fill in “white” as their social identity and make compromises on a lower level when it comes to their ethnic background? For example, how come white people are willing to identify solely as “white” instead of e.g. “ethnic Balkan”?
OneSummerSky 1 year ago
@OneSummerSky Good question. The reason most "white" people are willing to be labeled "white" and even label themselves "white" is because it allows them to be a member of a team larger than their individual heritage. The laws of the U.S. had been set up to benefit "white", so "white" people would sell out their heritage to be a member of the un-oppressed.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
@OfficialGetGln How can white people say there is no such thing as the "wages of whiteness" when the first thing they have thrown over-board the moment they set foot on this land, is their ethnic identity in order to be part of the white category?
What are your thoughts on mixed race identification?
OneSummerSky 1 year ago
@OneSummerSky I just ordered the book "Wages of Whiteness" to see what that's all about. People have the liberty to self identify in general and on the U.S. census (since 2000). However, when enrolling in public school it is required for the parents to identify the mixed "race" child as "Two or more 'races'". If the parents refuse to identify their child - school or district personnel is required to guess the 'race' or ethnicity.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
@OfficialGetGln Awesome, the book is a classic. I read it in Uni. With regard to racial identification, I can't recall any other country in the world where people are obliged (or even asked!!) to fill in official forms regarding their racial background. It is totally not-done anywhere outside the US for as far as I know.
Okay, have a good read!
OneSummerSky 1 year ago
@OneSummerSky I was under the impression that the UK asks about ethnicity on their census and Brazil asks if you are white, black or brown.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
The census I have done asked both race, ethnicity and religion. I think also political belief.
WarrenEdwardBuffet 1 year ago
Respond to this video... Why does the government ask all these questions? Are they preparing to divide the people by these categories? And why do so many of us volunteer this personal information to our government?
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
@OfficialGetGln I think in my case, as much as I know my local and national government, the long term goal is really to see what sort of services need to be provided to a changing society. This is very good in a responsible government. We do get good government services where I am from. I get free hospital care and free doctor care. I went to the emergency room a on Christmas eve and it was quick and free. Spent about 1.5 hours there.
I too would be suspicious in the USA. Corrupt government.
WarrenEdwardBuffet 1 year ago
@WarrenEdwardBuffet My concern is that I know that government has done unjust things in the past with the data they collect. In the U.S. they rounded up all the Japanese along the Pacific coast during WWII and locked them away for two years. I wish the government would provide equal benefits to everyone and stop counting us up into all different categories.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
@OfficialGetGln Yeah you do have a point there. I guess it comes down to data being used responsibly to really improve services. I can ask questions of religion, because different services might be needed for different religious people. You are right, knowing individual's skin color doesn't make a difference. However, it does make sense if the government has matched certain skin color with certain attributes.
WarrenEdwardBuffet 1 year ago
"Adobe, there's no Adobe on the census"
cedricrlongreen 1 year ago
Thanks for this video. I am annoyed by the question. I simply check the "other" box and write in: "guess". Great video!
daligoddess2006 1 year ago
Take care Glen God Bless u
spearsdoesitbetter 1 year ago
yes it is pretty FRUSTRATING when they make you check a box of race on whats called the melting pot, kinda hypocritical to our nature, everytime its the worse, especially when they say only check one, like you can possible dumb yourself and judge yourself ignorantly like they do. . . . . . .
iDREWtheseVIDEOS 1 year ago
Race is real: Africans do not have Neanderthal DNA, whites and asians do.
Illimitus 1 year ago
@Illimitus True. But the government doesn't need to count populations based on race.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
i'm half puerto rican half irish, i look all irish, i wish we lived in a place where it doesnt matter becuase to hear people talk when they dont know what you are, its shamefull especially when times are bad people look for scapegoats . so i wish that it didnt matter but it does and thats one of those harsh reallities we have to live with till we progress past it as a whole people
fearspork 1 year ago
@fearspork Amen my brother. I've been planning to make a video talking about how our society scapegoats the victims instead of placing blame on the broken laws and the people in power who manipulate laws to benefit themselves.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
Great video. If that's your daughter, she is very pretty :-)
DawnysDoggies 1 year ago
@DawnysDoggies Thank u for the kind words. Yes, that's my daughter =)
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago 2
@OfficialGetGln aww yea shes adorable
iDREWtheseVIDEOS 1 year ago
Beautiful and informative video!!! Love this :) Divide and conquer they do it's easier to track us.
What do YOU believe?
A. There is one race - the human race.
B. There are no races - only clines.
C. <----- There is one human species and an infinite variety of human clines. The term 'race' serves to divide us.
ShinIsTrue 1 year ago
NICE VIDEO FAM
ONE LOVE
MRchaless 1 year ago
One really important reason for the skin color in the us census are medical reasons.
Genetic diseases, germs viruses and so on do distinguish between different races.
For other reasons I also do not see the point......
Maybe the governement should better explain it to people!
Derax2 1 year ago
@Derax2 I guess it would be okay for doctors to ask our ethnic background - they have to keep our information secret from the HIPA (Health Information Protection Act). Even on the U.S. Census website I didn't see them disclose that they use our ethnicity information counts for immigration quotas. I don't see how that is fair to immigrants.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
very interesting video, and I like the way u teach ur daughter..i think right education should start at home itself :) great job..
ur channel will kinda help me for my dissertation..
spiritual1703 1 year ago 2
@spiritual1703 thank u my sister =) what's the topic of your dissertation?
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
@OfficialGetGln well, am working on identity and perceptions of miscegenation in my country..
there is a journal- Ethnic and Racial studies Routledge, u can read the vol 13 no 4 oct 1990, talks about the census(for Uk)..it can help u..
spiritual1703 1 year ago
@spiritual1703 Is that journal available online or through a retailer? I did a quick google search and amazon.com search and didn't find it.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
Everyone is mixed. Some are recently mixed and some have mixed gradually over millennia.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
very informative! Thank you for sharing my friend.
myskyy08 1 year ago
You guys did such a great job on this!
Ali:)
AllisonBrustofski 1 year ago
Thank you for doing this video. That has bothered me for a really long time. It should make no difference at all!
PaintedRavensong 1 year ago
What a relief! So glad there are other people that think like I do. HOWEVER, even though race may not exist, sadly sometimes we're treated differently because of the way we look. (...and on the census they don't ask if we're straight or gay or what religion we are or if we're fat and those are also characteristics that sometimes lead others to discriminate against us.) Great video!!
frau4bzna 1 year ago
Great video. But sad to say that race matters to a lot of people. If this country wasn't built on race itself it wouldn't matter. But it is a way to divide people in boxes. And also for different people to get help in inportant thinks they maybe over looked. Truth is this was and still today a very racist country, but we are getting better some what.
nativemrv19722 1 year ago
Great vid on the myth of race at my local library!
Race : the power of an illusion produced by California Newsreel
Summary: Episode one explores how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race. Episode two questions the belief that race has always been with us. It traces the race concept to the European conquest of the Americas. Episode three focuses on how our institutions shape and create race.
Sogwa 1 year ago
@Sogwa Thank you for mentioning that =] That's a great video series =] Parts of it are posted on the californianewsreel YouTube channel =]
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
Hi,
Thanks 4 the invite & sub! ;D
Ur vids seems very interesting, valid, & u seem 2 be making a very good point here. I can hardly hear u guys tho. It's not my laptop b/c l can hear other vids very loud, so can u pls post subtitles so l can hear what guys r saying.
thanks!
If ur saying hat l think/assume ur saying l totally agree but l just have no idea what ur saying b/c it's too low so l'm scared 2 agree.
Sogwa 1 year ago
@Sogwa you're right. the audio is low and there is background noise. I've since bought a stereo lapel mic that has a long wire =]
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
ALADDIN GEE--I see talent it's all good thumbs up on this one
aladdingee 1 year ago
I think this is a way for the government to keep track of everyone!
1ATMMUSIC 1 year ago
@1ATMMUSIC During WWII the U.S. used census records to locate Japanese on the main land and then placed them in internment camps for four years. Strangely enough, if you were Japanese and lived in Hawaii during WWII you were not rounded up.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
Great video. I like what you're teaching your daughter.
briarts 1 year ago 2
@OfficialGetGln No offense but I think th census is straight up b.s. They just use it to increase the so called "white population" demographically and to manipulate society. I think categorizing people into races is pointless and only perpetuates more racism and hate.
chsn09 1 year ago
@chsn09 I agree with you. Even using the term "race" serves to divide us. Did you know public schools force the parents to choose a "race"? If the parents don't choose a "race" the teacher has to guess which "race" the child is. This is supposedly to monitor academic progress by "race" and close the achievement gaps in education. They should simply monitor academic achievement by zip code. The Academic Performance Index lists scores by "race" instead of by zip code!
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
@OfficialGetGln But even using zip codes can be manipulative because some zip codes may have certain zone areas that are of one "race" etc. Race as you know does NOT even exist and scientists have even discovered there is NO biological or genetic basis to race. All of this is just manmade. Race is NOT even done properly in the USA. Everything reverts to black and white in reality. HISPANIC/LATINO is NOT a race and they put "white" as their default race when Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.
chsn09 1 year ago
I LOVE what you are teaching your daughter!!!
She is gorgeous, btw :)
Oh! and thank you for sharing love on my channel, my brother :)
Mishal
mishalmooremusic 1 year ago 2
Interesting!
You have an enthusiastic co-host too! :-)
ThereAreNoSides 1 year ago 5
What do YOU believe?
A. There is one race - the human race.
B. There are no races - only clines.
C. There is one human species and an infinite variety of human clines. The term 'race' serves to divide us.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
The U.S. government uses the term white instead of European-American to elude the fact that white people are not native to the Americas. Likewise, the term Indian is used to elude the fact that Indigenous Native American's were in the Americas first, and in turn, all other people are foreigners to the Americas.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
In 1997, the only countries affected by the [immigration quota] ceilings were Mexico, India, and the Philippines; since 1965, per-country caps have “had particularly harsh and unintended effects on Mexico and the Philippines.” -Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
I'm glad you are teaching your daughter not to be racially devisive but educating her about the truth in why people are 'different colors' and how this really is not a significant thing for anyone to have to report this to our government. But then again if that's mentioned I could be a conspiracy theorist. But this is a great video!
FamilyManDano 1 year ago 7
In 1997, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists urged the American governmnet to phase out the use of race as a data category and to substitute ethnic categories instead. Geneticists studying DNA ... were also concluding that race as a biological category made no sense. --Nell Irvin Painter
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
@OfficialGetGln I am 3/8 European, 3/8 Slavic and 2/8 Gypsy. And yet, on the census I had to check Caucasian. It really makes no sense. We are the human race made up of various ethnicities.
xander7ful 1 year ago
cline: a gradient of morphological or physiological change in a group of related organisms usually along a line of environmental or geographic transition
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
While the dismantling of the quota system removed explicit ethnic discrimination from American immigration policy and heralded an era of liberalization, current immigration policies continue to have discriminatory effects. -Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
Can you make a video about what 'clines' are? :) Would love to hear more.
streetinspired 1 year ago
Poetic Truth: There is one race - the human race.
Scientific Truth: There is one human species - homo sapiens.
Anthropological Truth: There are no races - only clines.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
can you believe the word "negro" is STILL on the US census! ugh!
avastacia 1 year ago
people are equal like the teeth of brush
TheMohaw 1 year ago
The ethnicity count is used by the U.S. government to decide how many more they want to allow to immigrate. Are the quotas equitable!?
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
In the 2010 census there are check boxes for black and white. Colors are not races, and most anthropologists have dismissed the idea of race.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
Choose one or more
☐ Mixed
☐ Other
☐ Unsure
☐ Don't know
☐ Doesn't matter
☐ None of your business
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
Using the term 'race' serves to dived us.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
It has been illegal to collect data on ethnicity and race since 1789 in France - as how it should be.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
"Citing Blumenbach by name, Emerson agrees that races shade into each other imperceptibly." -Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
Thumbs up if you're mixed!
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago 4
wow.. very interesting video
ambi101 1 year ago
you are right the censor is racist they is telling everyone in america that it is only 11 million blacks in america.
loveallhappiness 1 year ago
@loveallhappiness All humanity originated from Africa, so all Americans are African American.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
I don't know if races exist or not but I'm sure that race means something socially.I live in a country where there's no ethnic census and no affirmative action(I think the 2 things are linked) and it's really hard to get a job or rent a flat when you're not white.From my point of view,collecting data on race would not be a bad thing if it could allow us to have a form of affirmative action.
Thebraids 1 year ago
@Thebraids There is one human species and an infinite variety of human clines. Affirmative action is controversial and will continue to be debated for years.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
@OfficialGetGln and yall was getting killed by the natives nubian/africans and other natives so bad yall had to split them up and act all nice and calm like you are now with your fake gods for control and acting like a non threat.... acting like a friend but really wanting to kill the natives.. now yall want to join hand with ppl yall stole EVERYTHING FROM AS ONE RACE? HAHAHA you parasites haha.. nature will slay evil again... no reply will be read..
wakeupworld100 1 year ago
Lol, LEGO... xD
FlipnoteShinyEevee 1 year ago 2
@MrBeardstyle Please help us understand what we should believe. She can read your wisdom.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
Half black guy, here.
Race isn't about skin colour. For example, Japanese and Germans have the same skin colour, does that mean they're the same race? No.
warcraft125 1 year ago
@warcraft125 I agree with you. First I believed what I learned in school about different races. Then I thought there is one race -- the human race. Then a youtuber sent me a video ' confirming' that races exist. I understand each side of the argument. How many races there are and how many blends of races there are will continue to be debated by anthropologists and geneticists indefinitely.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
"Those who subscribe to this opinion [that there are no human races] are obviously ignorant of modern biology."--The Biology of Race and the Concept of Equality (2002), Ernst Walter Mayr
PseudoAdministrator 1 year ago 2
@PseudoAdministrator "There are no races, there are only clines."
-Frank Livingstone, anthropologist
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
It's sad when parents bring their children into a political issue.
FTWINZOR 1 year ago
@FTWINZOR My child will be an adult in 12 years. She will need to vote and fill out a census. Please enlighten us with your correct understanding? She is free to read your wisdom.
OfficialGetGln 1 year ago
Census wants people to be specific, even if we are all americans. Does it really matter to call this racist?
HAILFROMTHE941 1 year ago