I agree with you. "Race" should be reduced to a mere physical description. What you don't say, however, is that American "black" elites are the main supporters of this so-called "one drop rule" (which politely excludes Latinos and Arabs). Google the term "passing for white" and you will be deluged with hysterical "black" denunciations of…
I agree with you. "Race" should be reduced to a mere physical description. What you don't say, however, is that American "black" elites are the main supporters of this so-called "one drop rule" (which politely excludes Latinos and Arabs). Google the term "passing for white" and you will be deluged with hysterical "black" denunciations of part-black white people who prefer to identify as white and see no reason to pretend to be "black." American blacks and pretend-blacks believe that anyone with "black blood" (no matter how small the amount) has some kind of moral obligation to to identify with blacks and never with whites. One might call it an imaginary brotherhood of "black blood," in which the word "white" is far too superior to describe anyone claimed (usually against their will) by the so-called "black" race.
Those same race-hustlers conjure "whiteness" as an oppressor identity that incorporates Jews and Italians -- and potentially their respective West Coast counterparts, East Asians and Latinos (who are no more nor less "brown" than Italians) -- though when it's politically convenient, they'll speak of the oppressed as "Black and Brown."
Except for those now called BIPOC, we're all descended from immigrants who strove voluntarily to follow their dreams in North America -- most of whom had nothing to do with slavery (or Jim Crow, or even redlining for that matter). At this point, "Whiteness" exists only as a rationale (or foil) for an intransigent Blackness, and as fodder for the foundation-funded scolds on NPR.
I agree with you. "Race" should be reduced to a mere physical description. What you don't say, however, is that American "black" elites are the main supporters of this so-called "one drop rule" (which politely excludes Latinos and Arabs). Google the term "passing for white" and you will be deluged with hysterical "black" denunciations of part-black white people who prefer to identify as white and see no reason to pretend to be "black." American blacks and pretend-blacks believe that anyone with "black blood" (no matter how small the amount) has some kind of moral obligation to to identify with blacks and never with whites. One might call it an imaginary brotherhood of "black blood," in which the word "white" is far too superior to describe anyone claimed (usually against their will) by the so-called "black" race.
https://people.com/parents/craig-melvin-recalls-moment-son-delano-thought-sister-sybil-was-white/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x5K7COjYnQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQp7jeNp_yg&list=PLvzaW1c7S5hQcox9CjaJWA7QKTYXw9Zn2
Those same race-hustlers conjure "whiteness" as an oppressor identity that incorporates Jews and Italians -- and potentially their respective West Coast counterparts, East Asians and Latinos (who are no more nor less "brown" than Italians) -- though when it's politically convenient, they'll speak of the oppressed as "Black and Brown."
Except for those now called BIPOC, we're all descended from immigrants who strove voluntarily to follow their dreams in North America -- most of whom had nothing to do with slavery (or Jim Crow, or even redlining for that matter). At this point, "Whiteness" exists only as a rationale (or foil) for an intransigent Blackness, and as fodder for the foundation-funded scolds on NPR.