I am soooo checking "black" in 2020!
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Are you "African American" or "Black?"
- Thread starter Beauregard
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I am soooo checking "black" in 2020!
Idontdotrix
let sleeping bitches lie
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if we're shooting for e
Idontdotrix
let sleeping bitches lie
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- Dannielle
if we're shooting for equality across the board, there shouldn't even be a box to check.
Eldritch
is insensitive
Bay Arean
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Just ask yourself: who benefits from these check-off boxes in an increasingly multi-racial society?
At least in the Bay Area, it seems like we are years ahead of any kind of civil or social mechanism to deal with our diversity in a way that doesn't push racial recognition as a primary identity back to the forefront.
Which is what we are trying to move away from, right???? To me, it's the dated 70s notion of a multi-ethnic food court, where everyone knows their place; Paco sells tacos from his cubicle, Hiroki slings sushi, etc. etc, and leaves little COMFORTABLE ground for mixed-race people. They are supposed to choose "what they are." But what if they don't want to be beholden or confined to that cubicle? I remember that for a while (I don't know if its currently true) there were separate graduation ceremonies at Berkeley High for black, Hispanic and everybody else, or so I perceived from a newspaper account. Which begged the most obvious questions since many Berkeley kids are multi-racial. Which to attend? Who to identify with? Are you "authentic" in the context of the groups or do you face suspicion and/or rejection at some level, even if very subtle? Does that really move us along? I thought the separate ceremonies were a crock, if true.
Referring to two comments above about check-off boxes, if it's not "racist," it is at least divisive and I'm weary of it.
At least in the Bay Area, it seems like we are years ahead of any kind of civil or social mechanism to deal with our diversity in a way that doesn't push racial recognition as a primary identity back to the forefront.
Which is what we are trying to move away from, right???? To me, it's the dated 70s notion of a multi-ethnic food court, where everyone knows their place; Paco sells tacos from his cubicle, Hiroki slings sushi, etc. etc, and leaves little COMFORTABLE ground for mixed-race people. They are supposed to choose "what they are." But what if they don't want to be beholden or confined to that cubicle? I remember that for a while (I don't know if its currently true) there were separate graduation ceremonies at Berkeley High for black, Hispanic and everybody else, or so I perceived from a newspaper account. Which begged the most obvious questions since many Berkeley kids are multi-racial. Which to attend? Who to identify with? Are you "authentic" in the context of the groups or do you face suspicion and/or rejection at some level, even if very subtle? Does that really move us along? I thought the separate ceremonies were a crock, if true.
Referring to two comments above about check-off boxes, if it's not "racist," it is at least divisive and I'm weary of it.
Caddywumpus
4N631
Gotta make sure were all equal. thats why the census identifies race. Im selecting Asian next time around.