Racialist Mockery

I can’t even begin to focus my rage on the mocking tone of Brenda Payton’s commentary in today’s Oakland Tribune. In this thinly-veiled “racialist” screed, she mocks “mixed-race” individuals and “interracial” marriage in a manner that has become quite commonplace for opponents of Proposition 54 and those who detest self-identifying “multiracials.” Apparently some “multiracial” individuals have complexions that aren’t dark enough for her tastes. Her obsession with the physical traits of blended individuals being “not too curly-haired”and “caramel-colored” speak volumes about her dislike of folks of “multiracial” descent. Twice she makes the point that they are not “too brown” or “dark.” Her mockery would be considered detestable coming from a “white” supremacist and would have never seen print in any respectable newspaper.

Of course, many opponents of abolition of “racial” classifications are the same people who aggressively mocked and intimidated “biracial” and “multiracial” individuals and “interracial” relationships in the late 1990s during the Census classification wars. The real lowpoint, of course, being NAACP Washington Bureau director Harold McDougall’s public bullying of a 12 year-old boy for the simple crime of loving his parents and identifying as “multiracial” instead of adhering to the “racist” one-drop rule.

It seems that identifying with more than one “race” on forms that collect such data is an offense to many on the left, particularly those closet “racists” in areas such as diversity or multicultural studies. They don’t know how to ‘deal’ with someone who won’t be forced to live in one of their stereotypical boxes. Some of our detractors on the left can be just as “racist” as your average Klansman or neo-Nazi jackass when it comes to “interracial” marriage and the hideous one-drop rule. They just do a better job of hiding in plain sight.