great talk really lousy cameraperson.If he is talking about something in his powerpoint, you really should show the powerpoint.

Why doesn't camera show all what he shows on the screen?

I continue to be amazed as how often people argue about a word as if there can be only one concept for race, and it must be the one they are trying to prove exists or doesn't exist. So often the arguments are semantically circular, relying on everyone using a specific chosen meaning for the word which makes their assertion true. If someone says "race is a social construct", that is absolutely true - for some meanings associated with the word "race" and not for others. If they were speaking more clearly, they would say "when 'race' refers to the social construct of race, it is a social construct", in which case the circularity would be more obvious. Leaving out the explicit qualifiers can disguise the meaninglessness of the argument. Someone else might refer to a set of fuzzy categories based on multifactor cluster analysis of measurable biological traits. Race in that sense is not a social construct in the sense above, it emerges from mathematical analysis of physical traits. A Martian anthropologist with no ax to grind and no knowledge of human cultures would find the same clusters. Of course, by changing parameters and thresholds, you might get different numbers of clusters, so a cluster analysis is meaningful (the strongest clusters will remain in all cases) but not comprehensively definitive (eg: the number of minor clusters depend on your arbitrary thresholds). These two conceptions of race will correlate to some degree, but inexactly (see Kittles' slides). And of course, we cannot categorize every individual as being exactly one of N races (from somebody's favorite set, socially defined or as biological trait clusters). For example, the boundaries of clusters are fuzzy and there are many data points between the clusters. Just as the concepts of day and night are meaningful concepts that should not be discarded, even tho the existence of twilight means that we cannot meaningfully categorize every single moment of the day as always being either day or night (and our chosen thresholds between day/twilight/night are arbitrary). Kittles parses this in part by distinguishing between social race and biological ancestry, acknowledging that both exist - rather than fighting endlessly for the existence or non-existence of one these different concepts which are often subsumed under the same word "race". It's important to keep in mind his purpose - identifying meaningful groupings for things like medical statistics. For example, is some medical condition statistically associated with people with a strong African genetic ancestry, or with a socio-economic status which in turns correlates to some degree with social race (environment, behavior)? He's saying you have to tease these our before you can make scientifically strong associations which could guide research or treatment.

People need to understand the difference between race ethnicity and nationality ...... and inbreeding to understand genetics and origin

This guy really broke it down, people in the comments are idiots for bashing his segregation of biological and social factors. And the odd importance to keep race in the discussion in a world that wants it out (baby with the bathwater statement)

I REALLY enjoyed listening to this brutha! There is still so much we don't understand about ourselves! It's going to see how genetics plays a part in the ethics of Health care delivery. ☺❤👨🏾‍⚕️🔬📚💊

Very enlightening. I've also realized how use of the gentleman's census tracts can be of invaluable assistance with my Economic Awareness Seminars

A great talk and super helpful!

"Race and biology are inextricably linked" is a fact.

He's talking about disease being more prevalent in particular ethnic groups than others, but he has to define ethnicity before making that claim. Is not the definition of ethnicity just as slippery as race?

"Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Culture is just the fenotype of a population. Iq is genetic like everything else. There will always be deviants and outliers. Haplogroup is a better term than race. Plato described this 2500 years ago in the myth of the metals Crime is not a result of poverty, its a result of RELATIV poverty. Mixing groups with large diffrence in iq creates RELATIV poverty and political polarisation.

I am trying to hear more people who disagree with race realism, just trying to hear both sides. Any good people to listen to?

perfect

search "Douglas Whitman: "Amazing Racial Differences""

great video i understand the genes and race a bit more clearly thanks TEDx

I like his laugh.

He should do this over! After he firmly defines the terms he is using, and stops conflating them. An American geneticist of color should know better and must do better.

He's looking at populations of different "ancestry" without clearly defining ancestry beforehand. Is it based on self report or what? And how is that in any way scientific or reliable?

Stop calling it race. It's ethnicity. Not all blacks are "Africans".

Crusaders are like remoras...

I disagree with him. We don't "need" race today to study certain American groups. Most groups disenfranchised today are struggling from either past social mistakes or modern class struggle. We may need the idea of race to study the lasting effects of slavery, jim crow, etc...but we only need to understand it as a crazy idea that previous generations made up. Example: We don't need to see the sun as a god to be educate ourselves about how past civilizations were influenced by this idea.

Biology?

Your biological brother is not the same as you nor is your sister ????

I'm glad that he was willing to admit that there's no such thing as race, but I don't see the need to continue to use such a false term.

This is like saying shape is a social construct because you can get hybrid shapes

what? ya there are races...what they say is that we are all one species

The art of the double think

His credibility dropped when he used Hispanic as an example of a race with large variations. Hispanic is not a race.

We should stop talking about race as if it is a concept which objectively exists.

No white privelige then?

What we all race is actually breed.

Dr. Rick is so intelligent! Thank you for showing truth.

*_The whole video he spent "uhm"_*

There's no reason to blindly conclude that all population groups are blessed with the same genetic endowment. It's important that we don't ignore the biological genetic differences between various population groups. Failure to properly identify the genetic origin of population level differences between groups could cause folks to infer that systematic racism is a greater cause of racial disparities than is really the case. For example, African American students study half as much as European American students, who in turn, study half as much as Asian American students. African American women are more likely to drive a luxury car than European American women. These groups have different locations on The r/K spectrum as well. Even as different dog breeds have different temperaments, different human population groups should be expected to do so as well (perhaps not as pronounced). Here's a quote about temperament "Temperament refers to an individual's characteristic or habitual modes of behavioral and emotional responding that are present at an early age and often believed to have some basis in biological processes partly determined by heredity. It is typically discernible at birth. That infants differ systematically is shown by research observations starting in the first few days or weeks of life and extending, in some cases, for over a decade. In their book,Temperament and Behavior Disorders in Children, Thomas, Chess, and Birch (1968) were able to classify babies shortly after their birth into three types-"easy children" (adaptable, cheerful, regular in habits), "difficult children" (irritable, crying, withdrawn, irregular in habits), and "slow-to-warm-up children" (inactive, slow to adapt, gentle). About 70% of the difficult babies later developed behavioral problems calling for psychiatric attention; only 18% of the easy ones had such problems (Thomas & Chess, 1984)."

Good speech brotha but your walking to much. Stay still for a second!!!!!!!!

I guess then I am Irish Scotch French Dutch English an Indian American. Why hyphenate I am American.

This is a really disingenuous discussion. Just because the races often overlap and fade into one another it does not mean there isn't a biological element to race. Our skin color is determined by generic components and therefore is biological. Plus race doesn't just involve different skin colors. Different races of people are different sizes on average, they have different features such as hair and shapes of things like noses. The different races have different brain sizes which do in fact have a significant correlation with intelligence on average. It's not a perfect correlation but it is noteworthy. The different races also have different time periods for things like gestation periods or the amount of time it takes for a baby to walk. Africans tend to develop faster with whites developing faster than Asians in the same way. Race is completely biological and genetic. While it's true that the terms and classifications are social constructs the actual things they are based on couldn't be more real.

A White person is not a Yellow person the same way a Polar Bear is not a Panda Bear. A White Person is not the same as a Red person the same way a Polar Bear is not a American Black Bear. A White Person is not a Brown Person the same way a Polar Bear is not a Sloth Bear. A White Person is not a Black Person the same way a Polar Bear is not a Sun Bear. I can make more examples but I think you get it.

They majority of his talk was ok. I just lost it at the end with his DNA test. He is very wrong in that his siblings or even a twin. They could take the same test and come out with different results. I thought he was a biologist, and was about to ask how didn’t he know this. Overall, I agree with what he said. But DNA doesn’t work that way.

Yes/ NO

Hahahahah 😂😂... ..

We’re all the same

you need to cover or start with who is actually human and who is actually sub-human original vs gmo races

Races exist. The idea that it doesn't is a politically motivated logical fallacy.

Sounds a little "Uncle Tom-ish" to me

There is only one race. That is the human race. It doesn't matter the color of your skin. That is not race. There are dog races,horse races foot races, bicycle races. I do not think the color of your skin or the shape of your eyes or anything else is a race. We all have the same Anatomy do we have to live with.

We are all descendants of Adam and Eve. Born again Christians are born from above.

This brother hasn't mastered the relatively simple English language, forget about the complexities of advanced white discoveries in the field of genetics.

dog breeds are a myth. i use a dachshund as a guard dog. ask me how it's worked out for me. all dogs are the SAME.