Project RACE Declares War on the World
(or Letting Your Ego Run The Show)
by James A. Landrith, Jr.
March 12, 2001
On April 14, 2000, Project RACE Executive Director, Susan Graham decided to take some potshots at everyone else in the "multiracial" community. Being grownups, we chose to ignore it and treat her remarks for what they were – childish and petty. Further, it wasn't really surprising, as few people in the "multiracial movement" are willing to work with the caustic Ms. Graham anyway. Now she is at it again. In a March 9, 2001 posting to Project RACE's website, she once again declares war on everyone else affiliated with the "multiracial" movement. Either you toe her line or you get fragged in the style of Vice President Cheney – "Big Time."
I'm not sure I get the point, she keeps talking about what she's continuing to do for the "multiracial" community, but all I've seen on Project RACE's website since April 2000 are a few letters to editors of various publications and attack pieces on everyone else in the "multiracial" movement. Attack pieces don't seem like they really benefit "multiracial" children. They seem more like a benefit for Ms. Graham's frail ego. Apparently, when she has nothing else to do, she picks fights with former comrades who've decided to take a different approach than her.
I've been searching and stretching and reaching, but I've yet to figure out how these attack pieces do anything to help "multiracial" children. Maybe I'm just too dense to figure it out. Or maybe it doesn't make sense.
If you haven't done so already, please take the time to read for yourself:
- Where Have All the Activists Gone?
March 9, 2001
http://www.projectrace.com/director.html#exec4
Project RACE vows to continue the fight for the multiracial community!
April 14, 2000
http://www.projectrace.com/director.html#fight
Still confused? Join the club, membership is free!
Yours in Struggle,
James Landrith
James Landrith is the notorious editor and publisher of The Multiracial Activist and The Abolitionist Examiner, two cyber-rags dedicated to freedom from oppressive racial categorization. Landrith can be reached by email at: editor@multiracial..com or at his personal website/blog.
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 07:33:59 -0800 (PST)
From: “George Winkel” gwinkel@ivic.net
Subject: Letter to the Editor
In the 1990’s Project R.A.C.E., Interracial Voice (IV), and The Multiracial Activist (TMA); worked closely together trying to bring about the inclusion of a “multiracial” category on the approaching 2000 census. As James Landrith, the editor of TMA explains in his latest editorial, Mrs. Susan Graham, president of Project R.A.C.E. seems by way of two successive nasty proclamations posted approximately a year apart, the latest one just having gone up, to have severed her organization from IV and TMA. Why? Mrs. Graham seems to exhibit jealousy of Ward Connerly — did he steal IV and TMA away from her? Is there such incompatibility with the possibility of trying again for a “multiracial box” on a future census, and Connerly’s American Civil Rights Institute (ACRI) agenda that a nasty, public break is appropriate?
I am not sure what is Connerly’s take on the census “multiracial” box issue, or his views if any re Project R.A.C.E. However, Connerly is a proven effective crusher of Affirmative Action (AA) “race”-based preferences. His ACRI voter initiatives in California (Prop. 209) and in Washington State (I-200) ended state AA in those states. Connerly’s organizing brought about drastic AA reductions in Texas and Florida, too. Importantly, Connerly, ACRI, is planning a California voter ballot Racial Privacy Initiative, to block almost all state “race” identity data collecting. The hope is this initiative will go before the California voters in 2002. Indications are this is likely to pass, too, and it would constitute a momentous step forward in our efforts to get “race” questions completely off the U.S. census. And this, by the way — I am convinced — is the meaning of “deconstructing” “race” in the USA. What is Project R.A.C.E.’s problem? (Mrs. Graham wasn’t trying to win AA-type govt. entitlements for the multiracial was she?)
George Winkel