Re:Passing as Black
by b6 on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @01:11PM
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The author says this is progress. Maybe it is, in a way. But to me it still means we're very primitive, still very tribal, that we still care about any of this crap.
On forms, I never answer any question about my supposed ethnicity. How would I even really know? And why would I care? If there is some word with a capital letter that is the name of my supposed tribe, and all my heritage is attached to that, I hereby throw it in the garbage. It isn't worth it, if it's a wall between me and other humans. The special dance of my ancestors, the special holiday tradition, blah blah blah, on and on, whatever, I reject it, and choose to be a generic mutt in the one real tribe there is, called the human race. To me, that is progress.
On forms, I never answer any question about my supposed ethnicity. How would I even really know? And why would I care? If there is some word with a capital letter that is the name of my supposed tribe, and all my heritage is attached to that, I hereby throw it in the garbage. It isn't worth it, if it's a wall between me and other humans. The special dance of my ancestors, the special holiday tradition, blah blah blah, on and on, whatever, I reject it, and choose to be a generic mutt in the one real tribe there is, called the human race. To me, that is progress.