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Response to Farmer's Article
Written by 123456mini, on 15-10-2005 16:51
If what you say is true, I am actually not surprised that people in the
"mixed-raced" community are now engaging in racial radicalism as you termed it. From the way I see it, the entire mixed-raced agenda, as it pertains to persons who are of African and European ancestry, appears to be based on exclusionary aims. Though, on the surface, memebers belonging to the mixed-raced community promote inclusion because of their "mixed" heritage, the very fact that they aim to creat a new racial hiearchy/category evidences their need to present themselves to the world as something different and dare I say "special" or "better" in comparison to African-Americans who are not of mixed-heritage. (Though given the history of the country and the history of the human race in general, all people are essentially bi/multi racial.) As a person of "mixed-heritage" I just find it amazing and somewhat disappointing that there are still amongst us humans a need to categorize ourselves, and to perpetuate racial categories such as Quadroon and Octogon. It all seems so mindless and primitive...No wonder lighter skinned "mixies" are hostile to more tan/dark skinned mixed persons? Some of us are still hung up on the issue of race and the racial categories european colonists created to keep the "races" seperate. We have been conditioned to "stick with our own kind," to define ourselves in the hopes of obtaining a better social status, and to show hostility, even if its only veiled hostility, to any people, group, or ""race" that is "different." There was a time in the African -American community (which I belive applies to all of us no matter how "mixed" you are) when middle-class blacks employed the paper bag rule. Anyone whose skin was darker than a brown paper bag was deemed unworthy of admitance in social clubs and social events attended by middle-class blacks. The paper bag rule governed marital relations in these communities and served to divide the African-American commmunity in general. In light of Ms. Farmers comments on the new tensions in the mixed-raced community, it appears true when they say "the apple does not fall far from the tree." The "mixed-raced" community is only repeating what African-Americans did in the past and in some cases continue to do. When will we ever learn.

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