Tag: Dominant

How the Dominant Culture Protects Itself by Granting the Illusion of Acceptance

I’ve heard quite a bit about the Black Card, in its modern usage as opposed to how it was first used. The Race Card is often used to dismiss complaints related to race as if they have no merit. This story is about the White Card, which is a means to an end. Every successful Black person I k...

How the Dominant Culture Protects Itself by Granting the Illusion of Acceptance

I’ve heard quite a bit about the Black Card, in its modern usage as opposed to how it was first used. The Race Card is often used to dismiss complaints related to race as if they have no merit. This story is about the White Card, which is a means to an end. Every successful Black person I k...

What are “Dominant” and “Recessive” Traits? The Rundown of Heredity

In classical genetics, traits —passed-down physical characteristics — are encoded by genes. For each gene, you get a copy from your mother and a copy from your father. (These copies stay separate; they don’t blend together.) If you have only one copy of a gene’s&...