On RACE and RACISM: Humanity's Bottom Line

About the Book

Lauren Joichin Nile introduces what she believes is humanity’s racial bottom line with a compelling account of her personal experiences growing up in 1950’s and 60’s segregated New Orleans. In so doing, she posits what she believes is humanity’s universal racial story.

Lauren explains how starting out from Southern Africa, fully formed human beings, over thousands of years, walked out of Africa, populated the entire rest of Planet Earth, and over 2,000 generations, physically adapted to their new environments, gradually taking on the appearance of the many races of modern-day humanity, making all of us literally one, biologically-related human family.

She then provides an abbreviated account of some of the most significant events of humanity’s racial history and an explanation of how that history has affected the American racial present. She also analyzes a number of controversial topics, including whether there are truly superior and inferior races.

Finally, Lauren shares what she believes are the specific actions that humanity must take in order to heal from our wretched racial past, realize that across the planet, we all truly can love one another and as a species, walk into a wiser, more empathetic, compassionate human future.

Lauren Joichin Nile is an author, keynote speaker, trainer and licensed attorney who specializes in assisting organizations in increasing their emotional intelligence, compassion, and productivity. The goal of her work with organizations is to help create environments in which understanding and kindness are valued and as a result, every person is equally welcomed and uniformly appreciated irrespective of all demographic differences. The goal of Lauren’s speaking and training in the greater society, is to help the human species grow in both wisdom and compassion.

About the Author

Lauren N. Nile is an accomplished author, keynote speaker, and retired attorney and organizational development trainer. She is the author of On Race & Religion: My Journey from Jim Crow to Mysticism and a host of essays and articles on a number of other social and political issues. In her keynote addresses, Lauren most often speaks about her favorite topic, “The Oneness of Humanity”. Her goal is to help the human species to mature beyond all forms of bigotry and violence by growing in the understanding of our profound human oneness. Her fervent desire is to help all people to see both the Divine in themselves and themselves in each other.