Comments on: Mulatto Nation ~ A Populist Uprising!

By: JFC

JFC — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:33:07 +0000

Read more of Joy Freeman-Coulbary’s commentaries @ The WashingtonPost.com:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/therootdc/post/miami-marlins-manager-ozzie-guillen-suspended-for-fidel-castro-comments/2012/04/17/gIQAVjqAOT_blog.html

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By: JFC

JFC — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:44:19 +0000

A case for interracial marriage? The Washington Post’s point of view:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/therootdc/post/a-case-for-interracial-marriage/2012/01/18/gIQAlPgqAQ_blog.html

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By: JFC

JFC — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:32:42 +0000

Northwestern Professor Dorothy Roberts also debunks the science of “race” in this interview Ytasha L. Womack and in her new book Fatal Invention. The link to the interview and book review is below. As an author on this topic, I found this highly engaging.

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/womack20120116

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Best,

Joy

By: Wene

Wene — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:19:25 +0000

AY is correct. For an article supposedly about honoring Dr. King’s dream about removing labels you ignore the fact that bi-racial, mixed ect… Is a label as well. You also incorrectly presume that the best individuals to value and respect diversity must be either in an interracial/interethnic relationship or the product of one. The best way to honor Dr. King’s dream is to love and respect the culture(s) you come from and based off that love for yourself you respect others enough not to negatively or positively based off a stereotype of that person’s appearance, gender, religion, class, color, ethnicity or nationality. The love of two people of the same race can be just as understanding and accepting of diverse people as that of an interracial relationship. Growing up in a very diverse neighborhood I came across people in interracial relationships that were as prejudice as any 1950s segregationist. I also saw individuals who only dated outside their race or color based on stereotypes of their own race. This ignorance and insecurity is not to be applauded and doesn’t fulfill Dr. King’s dream. We should celebrate our similarities and I applaud the Occupy movement but let’s not prejudge and presume that marrying outside your ethnicity, religion ect… is best without evaluating people for who they are, how they live and what they stand for instead of some arbitrary label.

By: fede

fede — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:52:30 +0000

I have been standing up against labels of race for many, many years. I am a women in an inter-racial marriage, I have been married for 27 yrs., and have birthed two beautiful children. Not only do I list our race as “human” on census forms, I do the same when I enroll them in school. I’m quite tired of labels and all that entails. It was meant to divide, not unite. I disagree that inter-racial marriage will end any disunity between are fellow man. After all these years of marriage I still encounter prejudices. Women expressing their thoughts on the thievery of a free man, and men exbounding on physical attributes as an explanation as to the why. Until we agree as a nation that we are Americans, which is the only true label we should embrace, our differences will always divide us. After all, is not Mullato just another label of race used to identify the byproduct of said marriage?

By: AY

AY — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:49:12 +0000

Great observations. I guess I don’t agree that race does not exist. There are definitely distinct biological traits that are associated with people’s phenotype. Not exclusively but generally.

Plus look at places like Brazil, Creole New Orleans and mixed cultures throughout the Caribbean. There are still problems. People will always find a way to separate each other when it comes to resources.

Race mixing won’t protect you, legacy wealth and tangible resources will.

By: GW

GW — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:22:32 +0000

This article and ones like it would carry more weight if white people were the ones who wrote them and publish them in newspapers that whites tend to read.

By: Eric Jonathan Sheptock

Eric Jonathan Sheptock — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:56:30 +0000

This iis your best work to-date. It speaks volumes to how we need to get over petty differences and learn to get along. I have nothing against having a woman of a different color, though I’m not sure if inter-racial marriage will bring us any closer to world peace. Even so, it couldn’t hurt. As it stands, we’re as far from world peace as we’ve ever been since World War II ended. The Occupy Movement seems to be bringing people of all nations together against the 1%. That brings us to the ultimate recipe for peace and unity: HAVING A COMMON ENEMY.