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Aug. 1st, 2001 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taratemimaSo, the paper is finished and I am still very tired. There is not much to do except pay off what I owe for medicines and a transcript. I also need to study for my phonetics exam. I am not sure I want to go home right away. I could opt to change planes and land home rather than a stopover, but it will touch down late at night, with a lot of luggage. I perfer to stay in a hotel, explore the city, then go home.
Two interesting sites: Multiracial Activist and Race Traitor. There is a part of me that does want to forget the whole division of humanity into races, but I worry that 1) that while groups like Multiracial Activists are all for breaking down for 'perferences' in hiring and education, that they forget to look at 'perferences' for legacy scholarships (still mostly benefitting 'white' folks) or people 'perferring' to search their car or flush their name out of voter rolls because of their skin (never mind if the person calls themself 'black,' 'biracial,' or 'my mom is Scottish-Irish and my dad is Jamaican'), and 2) just saying that you are examining and rejecting the privilegesyou were given because of your skin might not be enough. Self-examination is risky and some people don't want to ask themselves "how much is what I got due to my abilities and how much is due to being the right place at the right time and the right sort?"
"Whiteness, not blackness, is the original sin of identity politics," Eric Liu
Two interesting sites: Multiracial Activist and Race Traitor. There is a part of me that does want to forget the whole division of humanity into races, but I worry that 1) that while groups like Multiracial Activists are all for breaking down for 'perferences' in hiring and education, that they forget to look at 'perferences' for legacy scholarships (still mostly benefitting 'white' folks) or people 'perferring' to search their car or flush their name out of voter rolls because of their skin (never mind if the person calls themself 'black,' 'biracial,' or 'my mom is Scottish-Irish and my dad is Jamaican'), and 2) just saying that you are examining and rejecting the privilegesyou were given because of your skin might not be enough. Self-examination is risky and some people don't want to ask themselves "how much is what I got due to my abilities and how much is due to being the right place at the right time and the right sort?"
"Whiteness, not blackness, is the original sin of identity politics," Eric Liu
