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====== Mixed Race / Multiracial Erasure: ====== | ====== Mixed Race / Multiracial Erasure: ====== | ||
- | Before we get into erasure, I think it's important to understand what mixed race or multiracial is. So what is it exactly? | + | Multiracial people do not identify generally with one race over another.** See: [[White Passing]]** |
+ | What ways would it be convenient for a multiracial person to be erased? | ||
+ | - Voice & Opinion | ||
+ | - Identity | ||
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+ | When a multiracial individuals voice is taken away it is usually done because they are standing up for a minority group. Their voice or opinion may be silenced for standing up for an individual, a group, an ideology, a culture, a language, a movement, or just correcting a historical fact. Why? Because it activates white fragility and white supremacy. | ||
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+ | Individuals who are white passing have a choice under white supremacy to either totally destroy parts of themselves, their culture, their identity, etc. in order to ' | ||
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+ | But that's not all white passing multiracial individuals have to contend with. They also have to work against being labelled and perpetuating white supremacy through unintentionally learned behaviors due to privilege. Human beings are constantly being labelled by society around them and assigned or removed privilege according to presentation, | ||
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+ | Below you can find an example of how someone' | ||
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+ | **Ex.** //" | ||
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+ | This will take some time to unpack, but it's possible. Here's the issues with this comment. | ||
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+ | - It doesn' | ||
+ | - It uses [[blood quantum]]. | ||
+ | - It assigns the individual an overarching race. | ||
+ | - Then it disregards the individual completely. | ||
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+ | There' | ||
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+ | This two fold analysis allows the person to not only categorize the individual based on the genocidal and supremacist notion of blood quantum or the 'one drop rule' that allowed for state justified subjugation, | ||
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+ | It's a tool. If the individual isn't who they claim to be via heritage, they' | ||
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+ | If the individual in turn wants to talk about issues of white supremacy or actively call out someone with supremacist views etc., by using what privilege they' | ||
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+ | It's a catch-22. | ||
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+ | Multiracial individuals within a supremacist society are condemned for embracing their identities and their concerns are dismissed in an attempt to force the individual into actively accepting their assigned privilege and enforce supremacy themselves. When that happens, the supremacist has won. They' | ||
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+ | We live in a liminal space and our urge to belong must never give in to the simplicity of privilege. Keep your voice. Keep your roots. Actively work to remove learned supremacy from yourself and those around you. Help uplift the voices in your community. |
mixed_race_multiracial_erasure.txt · Last modified: 2020/10/10 18:05 by radioangel