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Part 1: Neil deGrasse Tyson on Growing Up in Castle Hill Projects in The Bronx, Raps Kurtis Blow
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In this clip, Neil deGrasse Tyson took aim at the longstanding racist trope of black people being likened to monkeys and being their closest human kin. However, Neil explained that the closest relatives to monkeys would have to be white people due to the striking similarities in lips size and hairiness. He also went onto note how 19th-century anthropology was arguably the most racist branch of science during the most racist period in human history.
