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A Mixed Blog -
From The Editor
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Written by James A. Landrith
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Tuesday, 28 July 1998 |
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July 28, 1998
The Multiracial Activist
From The Editor: A little birdie clued me in on a story in the July 26, 1998 edition of The New York Times, Week in Review section, titled "Good Times Are Bad for Interest Groups". The story outlined some of the tactics used by advocacy and civil rights organizations in their struggle for funding and power. The NAACP was, of course, a major focus of the story. Last week, Julian Bond, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the NAACP, told attendees at the NAACP's annual convention, "for those Americans whose skins are black or brown, their prospects are poorer and the gap is growing wider," he also said, "the poverty rate has gone up while median family income went down. Poverty for black and Hispanic senior citizens went up, children who were poor got poorer, the numbers in poverty doubling, higher here than anywhere else." The story opens by saying that these "numbers" Bond talks about are in direct contrast with reality, according to several government and private research reports published in the past few years. In contrast, also last week, the Southern Poverty Law Center, headed by Morris Dees, scored a huge victory for civil rights in this country with the largest jury award ever imposed against a hate group in this country. This award will put the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, based in Columbia, SC out of business. This is a real victory for civil rights because it sends a message to these hate groups that someone is watching and will bankrupt them if they get out of line. This to me poses a very interesting question. What exactly is a civil rights organization? Is it a group that goes out and voraciously prosecutes and attacks vermin like the Aryan Nations and the Klan, who despise and fear interracial relationships and self-identifying multiracials. Or, is it an organization who used to focus on winning legislative, judicial and social victories in the name of civil rights, but currently uses tactics such as employing slick law professors to publicly ridicule and belittle interracial relationships and self-identifying multiracials? One group is telling us that the glass is half-full, and oh by the way you're only black because you need our protection and the other group is bankrupting a hate group. Just wondering... Yours in Struggle, James A. Landrith, Jr.
Editor and Publisher of the disreputable rag,
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Advocacy and Letters -
Letters to Other Media and Academe
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Written by James A. Landrith
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Thursday, 02 July 1998 |
07/02/98 Letter to Dr. Nicholson, Admissions at Howard University
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Subject: Multiracial Identity
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 09:14:23 PDT Dr. Nicholson, Allow me to introduce myself, I'm James Landrith, Director of Project RACE of the National Capitol Area, a local chapter of Project RACE. Project RACE advocates for multiracial children and adults through education, community awareness and legislation. Our main goal is for a multiracial classification on all school, employment, state, federal, local, census and medical forms requiring racial data. I am writing you in support of Mr. Luis Pena, who petitioned Howard University's Board of Trustees regarding adding a multiracial category with racial sub-identifiers on all forms used to obtain race-based data. Project RACE has been advocating this type of category for years. In fact, several states including Maryland have added this type of category to their state forms that collect racial data. We feel that adding the category at Howard University would show an unprecedented understanding and tolerance of racial diversity as well as providing a real choice to multiracial people, instead of relying on Jim Crow leftovers, such as the current mindset, which is to check one only. Will Howard University be in the numbers that support true racial diversity or will they be on list of those who fear and oppose multiracial identity and interracial relations? Dr. Nicholson, I urge you to help in cause of fostering real racial tolerance by helping discard the leftovers of Jim Crow and support Mr. Pena's right to be who he is in mind, body, spirit and finally on paper. Any assistance you can provide in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Sincerely, James A. Landrith, Jr.
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Project RACE of the National Capitol Area
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The Multiracial Activist Newsletter -
Newsletter
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Written by James A. Landrith
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Monday, 01 June 1998 |
The Multiracial Activist Newsletter 03
June/July 1998
The Multiracial Activist Newsletter is an informational digest of news, events, new websites and other information of interest to the Interracial/Multiracial community. Published monthly, with special editions as news items warrant.
June/July 1998
Editor, James A. Landrith, Jr.
http://www.multiracial.com/
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TMA Articles and Commentary -
TMA Editorials by James A. Landrith, Jr.
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Written by James A. Landrith
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Monday, 01 June 1998 |
Since my start in the multiracial movement almost 2 years ago, many things have been said about me personally and about multiracial activists as a community in the media, public hearings, internet discussion groups, etc.
This movement is not for the weak of heart. Your patience will be challenged and your motives held suspect. The more you talk about interracial/multiracial issues and the more exposure you get, the more likely you're going to be called or described in one of the following ways:
- racist
- Uncle Tom
- sellout
- ashamed of being black/running from your blackness
- feels superior to blacks
- traitor to the "cause"
- naive
Once the namecalling has started, it is important to not dwell on it. Don't let narrow minds influence your mental health and by all means don't spend your precious time, energy and emotion trying to dispute with or change their minds. It's not likely to happen. The guilty parties in the campaign of degradation are bigots whose narrow views have been challenged in some way by our words and actions. Namecalling is a self-defense mechanism they employ in an attempt to shut us up.
Bigots aren't born, they're manufactured over a period of years by a combination of society and environment. They come in all shapes and shades, even brown. Some in the black community, primarily black elites and their brain-washed drones, will tell you that blacks can't be bigoted. They go on to say that Whitey just doesn't understand the difference between black anger and white bigotry. Do not be deceived. Bigotry is bigotry regardless of the shade of the bigot.
Famous Bigots and Bigoted Organizations with a slant against Interracial Marriage and/or Multiracial Identity
- Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO of the NAACP (for racist remarks regarding multiracial identity)
- Dr. Harold McDougall, Professor of Law at Catholic University, Washington, DC and former Director of the Washington Bureau of the NAACP (for racist remarks in hearings, discussion panels, etc. related to interracial marriage and multiracial identity)
- National Association of Black Social Workers (hatred of transracial adoption and national campaign of disinformation regarding transracial adoption)
- Rep Danny K. Davis (D-IL) (for his racist remarks regarding self-identitying multiracials)
- National Alliance (white supremacist organization who favors a ban on interracial marriage)
- Matt Hale, Rev. Pontifex Maximus of The World Church of the Creator (for his racist remarks regarding interracial marriage)
The list goes on and on. A bigot with white skin and a bigot with brown skin are just two different symptoms of the same virus - hatred.
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A Mixed Blog -
From The Editor
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Written by James A. Landrith
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Monday, 01 June 1998 |
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June 01, 1998
From The Editor
The Multiracial Activist On Saturday, May 30th, I attended the plenary session of the National MultiCultural Institute's 13th Annual Conference. The plenary session was entitled "A Multiracial Identity for Year 2000 Census: Its Implications and Potential Impact", moderated by columnist Clarence Page. One of the participants was Dr. Harold McDougall, a professor of law at Catholic University in Washington, DC. Many of us will remember him as the former director of the Washington bureau of the NAACP. Dr. McDougall claimed to be representing himself, but sounded like Mfume's puppet again. The Conference went well. Susan Graham, Executive Director of Project RACE represented the interracial/multiracial community quite well. The Justice Department had a representative who seemed to have no idea what the panel was about. All I could get from his presentation was that black men have trouble getting cabs. Dr. Jeffrey S. Passel, Director of the Urban Institute's Program for Research on Immigration Policy talked about the computational challenges of check-all-that-apply and appeared to not take sides on the issue of racial identity. Dr. McDougall however was his usual racist self. He attacked interracial marriages, multiracials, parents of multiracials and also seemed to think this discussion was about his inability to get a cab. He also seemed to think that multiracial identity had something to do with the couple that left their child unattended outside a New York City restaurant in the cold of winter. He seemed to feel that leaving a child exposed to pedophiles, kidnappers and the like was not illegal and was somehow linked to a person acknowledging their total identity. Okay. I'm confused. Apparently the former director of the Washington Bureau of the National Association for the Oppression of Multiracial People, I mean for the Advancement of Colored People seems to think that irresponsible parenting is okay if the child is of mixed heritage. After the discussion, an audience question and answer period took place. Nathan Douglas got to ask Dr. McDougall about his campaign of misinformation about self-identifying multiracials and the activists involved in the multiracial movement. Dr. McDougall proceeded to tie multiracial activists to right-wing white supremacy groups. He went even further to say that websites dealing with multiracial issues had printed some kind of article or essay favoring the "colored" classification in South Africa and offered this as his proof that the interracial/multiracial community was a front for right-wing white supremacists. When Nathan challenged him on this bold-faced lie, McDougall couldn't give any specifics. I know why. He had just made it up and hadn't had a chance to elaborate on his fantasy. Dr. McDougall is a racist and the fact the NAACP had employed him as their Washington Bureau Director speaks volumes about the current President and CEO, Kweisi Mfume. I would like to acknowledge Nathan Douglas for the incredible courage it took to debate the racist McDougall in a meeting room filled with people who take the NAACP's word on race as absolute truth. I also salute Susan Graham for her courage and willingness to participate in a panel that was intentionally stacked against her. I would also like to thank Julie Kershaw, a parent of multiracial children who attended as a representative of the newly formed Project RACE of the National Capitol Area. I hope that this movement can someday move past the name-calling and innuendos, but certain members of the "recognized" civil rights community does not appear to want that to happen. Yours in Struggle,
James A. Landrith, Jr.
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