Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

I care about food stamps for people who don't have any food.

I care about the mentally ill.

I care about reforming the incarcerated population so that these people can get back into it and get ahead again.

And so the Democrats are really looking at the value structure of what does the right hemisphere value.

And there are a lot of boomers who are Democrats.

The Republican brain comes in and says, well, it's about me, and me means if there's a me, there's a you.

And if there's a you, if you don't look like part of my tribe, then you're not on my team, and the left doesn't.

The emotional brain comes online and says, well, we're tribal.

And in that tribalness, it's me against you.

And so we fuel this with our sports teams.

We fuel this with our political teams.

We fuel this with any division.

it is that left emotional brain that looks at someone and says, I'm blonde haired, blue eyed, I'm a female, okay?

You're black haired, you have a different hue, color to your skin, and you're different from me.

And the left brain says, because you're different from me, I'm going to push you away.

And as soon as the brain says, I'm going to push you away in racism, I'm also going to elevate myself, happens naturally, to being superior to you, all right?

So this is, we're actually wired at the level of ourselves to do this.

The right brain comes in though, and it says, you're different from me.

You have different color skin.

You speak a different language.