My meaningless anatomy has profoundly restricted my professional advancement for decades, contributed to being “randomly” profiled by police officers and confirmed that I will never meet the criteria of a cute, semi-cute or almost-cute woman in America.

Ever notice how, in a multi-hued society, one pigmentation is predominantly featured on wedding-inspo Instagram pages, in police brutality footage or on podcasts and at conferences celebrating experts?

Yeah, me too.

Welcome to the wonderful world of bias.

Bias determines who is deemed inherently worthy—or naturally worthless—to G-d, “good” people and/or the government.

Consequently, certain biases can lead us to believe that a select group of humans—who don’t even know how to create a galaxy from scratch—are somehow the only ones who deserve to exist on Earth.

When I think about my stay in America, it sadly feels like there are millions of beige-skinned persons who paranoically perceive every brown-skinned woman as subhuman, a stereotype and/or a serious threat.

To understand why so many earthlings of the brown and beige hue perceive beige-ness as the pinnacle of safety, innovation, better-ness and attractiveness, it helps to understand branding and marketing.

It also helps to navigate the complex design of our magnificent and malleable brains.

Brethren, “race” is (finally) running out of time.

And (skin tone) bias will be the new kid on the block.

So, whether your skin was divinely dipped in the shade of brown, beige or both complexions, I’d like to spend a few weeks reviewing the basics of bias with you, before we get into the deep stuff.

I’m in my slow-content era, so see you in September.