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The speaker, Misha Daly, explains that she has started a podcast after waiting for the perfect moment for a long time. She discusses being bullied on social media and how her posts sometimes attract negative attention. She shares a recent post about racism and explains that while people have always recognized differences based on appearance, the concept of race as a social construct was created by white Europeans. She clarifies that she is not saying white people invented the idea of differences based on appearance, but rather the concept of race itself. She emphasizes that race, gender, and other social constructs are defined by society and evolve over time. You are now tuned into, the Misha R. Daly, please say the game over. Hey, hey, y'all, this is the Misha. Okay, I know this is totally random. Y'all know I always start my conversations with that. If you follow me on Instagram, which I would assume that most of you are likely here from Instagram, and I'm sure a nice portion of you know me in person as well, you know I start a lot of the conversations with totally random buts, and then I start going off. But, yes, I do know that this is random. Look, in my defense, I planned on starting a podcast. This is an idea that I've been sitting on for such a long time, and finally I've done it. Like, I'm like, okay, let me just go ahead and start it up. And when I say that this has been in the frameworks for such a long time, I'm talking Jesse, for those of you who don't know, Jesse is my husband. Jesse bought me my first microphone for my podcast, I'm talking like five years ago. It's been a long time coming, and honestly, I've just been waiting on that perfect moment, which that's not even a thing. So, listen, if you are sitting on your ideas right now and you're waiting on that perfect moment, yeah, go ahead and get that out of your mind. Go ahead. Jump. Just go ahead and do it, because there is no such thing as the perfect moment. The perfect moment is now. So, here we are. Better late than never, right? Okay, so, I posted on my Instagram, and, well, it was my Instagram story, my private story. And I was talking about how I am currently being bullied on there right now, right? So, for some backstory, there are some times where I will post something on social media and it will just gain so much momentum. And I mean, like, I'll have all sorts of people coming across my page, interacting with things. This brings about the good, the bad, the ugly, of course, social media in a nutshell, right? But, oftentimes, when things go left, when it's bad, it's real bad. So, like, that's what's currently happening. Now, mind you, there is a period of time, I feel like last year, I had these moments of rubbing people the wrong way on social media. Just, it was happening back to back. I felt like every month I was getting attacked about something. And let me just say, I am not someone that goes onto social media looking to argue with people. I am not on there, like, you know, creating my day around this. Like, ooh, what am I going to post today? What's going to get the people, you know, up in arms today? No, that's not it at all. It'll be the most random thing. And I'm like, what? Like, people are angry about this? Like, a lot of times, most times when it happens, I'm totally shocked because I just don't expect it to really get that type of reaction. But I guess I shouldn't be shocked anymore. So, the thing is, people, what I'm really realizing is that people do not like folks to tell the honest truth on social media. Like, I'm talking, if you have any understanding about any type of intellectual discussion, topics, educational background, and you say something that is legitimately based in fact, and when I say based in fact, you can pull up studies on it, you can pull up heavy emphasis on scholarly studies. Like, you have things to back up your argument. People ain't trying to hear that. I mean, because let's be honest, a large portion of social media, the people that do use social media, they are here to argue. And that's just, now that's a fact, okay? So, all right. So, right now, what I'm dealing with is a post that I posted maybe like two, well, I said three days ago. It was like two days ago, okay? And people were really, really rubbed the wrong way by my comment. And, hey, cutie pie, you want to say hi? Say hi, everybody. Hi, everybody. So, listen, y'all, that's my baby girl, Onawa. You know, a lot of times I would tell myself, I'm like, I don't have like the quiet space to be able to record a podcast. But the reality is, it's like, okay, I am currently in my dining room. You're going to hear things in the background, and that's just it, okay? So, we will make do. So, all right. I am about to pull this comment up, what I posted, okay? So, this is from Threads, by the way. I don't know if you all are using Threads right now. I absolutely love it. It reminds me of Twitter back in the day. If you all ever used Twitter before it became X, like, you're able to really get into a lot of interesting conversations. There's a lot of professionals on there as well, people that are well-versed in an array of different topics. So, yeah, I really enjoy it. But, of course, here's this part where I'll get on there, and I'll just be talking. As some of you know, I just recently graduated with my BA in sociology with a focus in environmental and natural resources. So, like, my brain, I'm always thinking about various sociological things as I interact with anything in my life, whether it be on a micro scale or a macro scale. I'm always analyzing things from that lens. And this was just one of the many things that I randomly thought of. I can't remember what I was doing at the time, but I posted this comment, okay? So, hold up. I'm about to pull it up so I can tell you exactly what I said. Because when I tell you, this thing really just took off, and I was not prepared for all of the chaos that had ensued. So, let's go into replies. And I'm actually still trying to figure out how to use threads, so bear with me. Okay. So, I posted, y'all, okay, first off, this was two days ago, okay? So, I said, y'all, white person just told me that racism existed before white people. As in, Europeans did not create skin color hierarchy. Ciao. And I put the laughing face, and I put a little gif there of a black woman, like, giving the side eye. Like, for real, now you know you're lying, because, yeah, you're lying. Y'all, like, okay, there are a large portion of people agreeing with me that clearly have a humanities background. Hey, y'all. But then there's another portion of people that are like, no, no, no, no. And they're naming off all of these previous historical things, which, okay, let me say this to that group. Okay. We are not saying that white Europeans invented, like, the overall emotion of, like, recognizing that there is a difference amongst people when it comes to skin color or just how we look as far as phenotype, right? What I am saying is that the concept of race, which is a social construct, was created by white people. The concept of race is not something that we have had since the beginning of time, okay? So, that's what I am saying here. Hold on. Yes, Omala. Can you come to my tea, please? Oh, can you come to my water, please? Hold on. No downtown. Where's your club? You're not ready. Okay. Can you give me the space to record this, ma'am? The space to record this. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, like I said, we are not saying that white people are the ones to, we're not saying that white people are the first ones to come up with this sort of idea or understanding that we are, in fact, different. I'm sure people have always recognized that. And that's the reason why to the group of people who are like, oh, well, what about these previous historical situations? So, they're naming off a lot of different factors that have ignited between different groups of people, okay? So, say, for instance, people Okay. So, like, we understand that people, okay. So, as I was saying before, we are not saying that white people are the first ones to recognize that there were differences between two groups of people or whatever. What I'm saying is that Europeans are the first to create this sort of social construct. Race is a social construct. Social construct. And you know what? Let me go ahead and get y'all the definition. A social construct is a concept or category that has socially and culturally mediated meaning. A social construct is a concept or a category that has socially and culturally mediated meaning. They are concepts that generate their meaning through social and cultural worldviews. So, a few examples of this would be like race, gender, marriage, nationality, age, beauty. There are a lot of different things that encompass this, okay? And with these things in mind, being that they are social constructs, we, as in society, we are the ones who depict and pretty much lay out the ground rules and the norms around what around how we decide to How do I even put that into words? Okay, so a social construct is a concept or a category that has socially and culturally mediated meaning. They are concepts that generate their meaning through social and cultural worldviews. So, a few examples of things, major topics that are actual social constructs in the world are things like race, gender, and you know we're going to get into that one because a lot of y'all don't know that. Gender, relationship dynamics like marriage, age, beauty standards, like all of these things are social constructs, okay? And they change and evolve and we literally set the tone of what those things are basically. We set the rules for them, you know, to figure out what the norms are, okay? And this is something that just happens over time. So, race is one of those things. It was not created, you know, in the very beginning of when humans came around. It was not. So, the fact that people are arguing about it and willing to tell me that I'm incorrect is hilarious. So, once again, we know that people have always gone toe-to-toe for all sorts of different things, okay? But understand that they have not always been race-based, okay? So, say for instance, there are a lot of different historical situations that involved different kinds of people and they may have had strifes depending upon a plethora of different things. So, it could have been tribal, based in tribal, differences in tribes, differences in religion, resources, yes, many different things. And now, you know, fast forward, we're seeing more dynamics pertaining to race, okay? I want to say as well, because, yeah, we're going to get into some facts, okay? We're going to get into some good stuff. Yeah, man, my social media right now, like I said, for like the past maybe not even a full month, my account, my Instagram account has been private, but I just opened it up again. I went public again. I need to clean it up. I've been deleting so many things, well, not deleting, but archiving so many different things just because I understand how ugly people can be on social media. So, like, I hid most of my things with Jessie, most of my things with Onawa, and a lot of times, I don't post her even on my, well, either of them, honestly, on my actual account. Because it's, I mean, y'all know what I'm talking about. As soon as you say anything, people will go to your page, and they will pick your account apart. They will find anything to try to attack you and be mean and be ugly. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. I'll tell y'all one of the most recent comments that was just like, really? Really? The bullying, incessant bullying. It's so ridiculous, and honestly, it's sad. It's sad that this is where we are in society where, first off, we just have way too much access to one another. But the fact that people are able to just hop on social media and hide behind these accounts and just be ugly, they're literally trolling. That's the most hilarious thing about it is that the people that post the most ridiculous things, the meanest things, I mean, it's like 98% of the time, they are hiding. They are not actually showing an actual profile photo. They don't have an available account, as in it's not open to the public. It's very evident that they've made these accounts just to bully people, and it's like, oh, my goodness. We have really gone off the deep end. What is up with our character as a people to where we feel so inclined to do that and to just be so— I don't even know what the word is. It's so unbecoming of us. But anyway, so let's see here. I want to get into finding some facts here, but of course, all of my stuff has like disappeared. Where the facts at? Where the facts at? Oh, here we go. Okay, so for people that think that I just casually made this up, like I literally just rolled out of bed and said, you know what? Europeans created this. Okay, so this is actually something that is posted on the National Library of Medicine. Better get into these articles while you can because you already know where we are with the political atmosphere. A lot of these things are being deleted. But here we are. This is just a small snippet, and this was written by Stefan Moeller-Willi. I'm sure I butchered his name or their name. It's like German or something like that, but okay, so a quick snippet. Hmm. The history of race is usually framed by two discontinuities. The invention of race by European naturalists and anthropologists marked by Carl Linnaeus' Sistema and the demise of racial. Okay, wait a minute. Okay, so this is actually from the National Library of Medicine, and it's an article by Stefan Moeller-Willi. I'm sure I probably butchered their name, but it's like German or something like that. But I digress. Also, y'all better get into these articles while you can because you already know what's going on with the political atmosphere. They're deleting a lot of this stuff, a lot of information. But, okay, I just want to give you this bit. Carl Linnaeus. Carl Linnaeus, this is someone that is often, often mentioned when we discuss the history of race, okay? Race is placed outside of rational discourse as a. . . Okay, so there's this one area that's highlighted, and it says, at the beginning of the book, Okay, so there's this one area that's highlighted, and it says, at the beginning of the story, we have the invention of race by European naturalists and anthropologists marked by the publication of the book Systema Naturae in 1735, in which the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus proposed a classification of humankind into four distinct races, okay? So this is here. This isn't something that I just randomly made up. But, okay, so the thing is, is that race, even though it is a social construct, as in society made it up, it is still a very real thing that plays a part within our societies, okay? And that's the reason why I even mentioned it to begin with. So, as I mentioned before, yes, we understand that a variety of people have had differences in the past, and they fought over all sorts of different things. I know that someone mentioned about how Japanese people, I know that someone, Okay, so even though race is considered to be a social construct, as in it was created by society, societal norms, things of that nature, it's still something that is also very real in our society, okay? So that's all I was saying. So even though race is a social construct, it's very much so something that is very real in our society, despite it being a creation of humanity, okay? So like, Okay, baby girl. Okay, baby girl. Okay. Okay. And we're also going to get into, Okay. And then we have from another article, FacingHistory.org, okay? This was written by, wait a minute, I actually don't see a person's name on this. My apologies. Wait a minute, let me go down to the bottom and see, because one thing about it, I'm going to give y'all these quick facts, like, all jokes aside, y'all going to hear it from me. Dang. I'm not seeing a name, but I digress. It's FacingHistory.org, and the name of this article is entitled The Origins of Eugenics. Eugenics, okay? This is by, this is a creation of Francis Gatlin, okay? Francis Gatlin and the Beginnings of Eugenics, or, quote-unquote, race science, okay? So, here's a little bit. By the late 1800s, the industrial revolution, by the late 1800s, the industrial revolution had changed both how and where goods were made in the United States and much of Europe. More and more people were leaving the countryside for manufacturing jobs in large urban centers where they lived and worked among strangers. As so many lives and livelihoods went through dramatic changes, many people perceived the strangers of different races, ethnicities, and classes they encountered as threats to their social status and economic well-being. Many white Americans blamed society's ills on others, including African Americans, immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, Native Americans, and anyone who looked, spoke, or acted differently than people perceived to be of white, Angelo-Saxon heritage, which is also ironic because I'm in southern Europe. I digress. Okay, so, this is the thing. Gatlin believed that there was a way to, quote-unquote, improve the race, okay? He coined the word eugenics to describe efforts at race betterment. Wild. Okay, so, in 1883, Gatlin defined eugenics as, quote, the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but which takes cognizance of all influences that tend in—you hear my ice machine, Lord. Um. Hmm.