As if racism weren’t bad enough, here comes another “–ism” to make your day.
Are you ready for gene-ism? The coinage is mine, but it’s not my theory.
Our problems go deeper than race. It’s our genes.
The idea belongs to Gregory Clark, a professor at UC-Davis who published an essay in The New York Times this past Sunday that’s sure to get those in the diversity battle buzzing.
According to Clark, there’s a simple reason people are where they are in the social ladder and it has nothing to do with winning or losing the fight against racial discrimination.
No, the map of our life is all in our genetic makeup. The DNA of success is pre-determined. In other words, upward mobility, success, all the good things in life are all about your genes.
And not just your Calvin Kleins or your Gloria Vanderbilts (although those would be good genes, indeed).
