Ageism + Racism: How to Rise Above Them Both: 2

"The Root Nobody Wants You to Find Have you ever been the most qualified person in the room and been treated like the least? That feeling has a name. And the name is not racism. The name is not ageism. The name is classism - and racism and ageism are how it gets delivered to you. There is a question that lives in the body before it lives in the mind. It surfaces in the moment before you speak in a meeting where your credentials are longer than anyone else's at the table. It surfaces when a younger colleague with a fraction of your experience is handed an opportunity you built the groundwork for. The question is: What is actually happening here? Most books will tell you the answer is racism. Some will tell you it is ageism. A smaller number will tell you it is both. All of those answers are true. None of them is the root. This book goes to the root. Race is a management tool. It was constructed - not discovered, not inherited from nature, not ordained - constructed by people with economic interests in keeping certain populations divided, compliant, and competing with each other