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====== Mixed Race / Multiracial Erasure: ====== | ====== Mixed Race / Multiracial Erasure: ====== | ||
- | Multiracial people do not identify generally with one race over another.** See: [[White Passing]]** | + | Multiracial people do not identify generally with one race over all others. We are not fractions of a race. We don't disregard any ' |
What ways would it be convenient for a multiracial person to be erased? | What ways would it be convenient for a multiracial person to be erased? | ||
- | - Voice & Opinion | + | |
- | - Identity | + | - Identity |
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. | 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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Below you can find an example of how someone' | Below you can find an example of how someone' | ||
- | Ex. "Yeah, people shouldn' | + | **Ex.** //"Yeah, people shouldn' |
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This will take some time to unpack, but it's possible. Here's the issues with this comment. | This will take some time to unpack, but it's possible. Here's the issues with this comment. | ||
- | 1. It doesn' | + | - |
- | 2. It assigns the individual an overarching race. | + | - It uses [[blood quantum]]. |
- | 3. It uses [[blood quantum]]. | + | - |
- | 4. Then it disregards | + | |
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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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- | But | + | 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. |
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