Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "Nana Akua: Colour is irrelevant, it’s an outer coating and tells you nothing about the person inside" video.

  1. ​ @jimskirtt5717  Data from the school systems run by the US military strongly suggests "race" has little if any thing to do with IQ or intellectual capacity. I would argue that culture has more to do with if two societies with equal starting points have different levels of development or prosperity
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  2. Well said. We may never escape the specter of racism (1) on the individual level. But on a sociatal level we largely have (2). Yes some people do have privilege to a greater or lesser degree. But in todays societies in the West l would argue that is more a factor of wealth and or familial backround. Wealth can open doors. As can familial backround. Your father knows somebody at X firm, organizstion or company. A quiet word is said and and son or daughter finds a position. The son or daughter fall slightly short of the needed academic standards to enter Y university. A donation is made and the individual is admitted. Any one who thinks this does not happen is willfully ignorant. This is the privilege we here so much about. This privilege exists in all societies. And always has. 1) l think a better term for this is colorism. We are all of one species. Homo Sapiens. We are all capable of breeding with one another. The sooner we all accept this the better. This does not mean that we should or will. Personal tastes enter into this. That is preference. Not prejudice. An example is the old question about Ginger or Mary Ann. 2) On the societal level culture enters into things. If your birth culture values education aboveall things chances are you will do well academically. If it does not. Odds are you will not. Please do not ask me how to change cultural problems. The only answers l can come up with involve very totalitarian solutions. But there is another issue that needs to be faced. If everyone recieves at least the equivilant of a four year degree soon washing dishes or sweeping floors will require a degree. Not everybody is suited for higher education. What do we do about those at the bottom. Put them on a life of endless welfare benefits. I yhink we have found that does not end well.
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