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The fiction of whiteness imperils humanity.

June 21, 2022June 21, 2022 40's, Ancestors, destroy, Eric Garner, fiction, humanity, imperils, label, Michael Brown, N word, rejecting, supremacy, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Walter Scott, whiteness

Evan Sorem,
San Diego, CA.

I am a human being. I have lived nearly all my life in California. My ancestors have lived in California, Illinois, Wyoming, Utah, Tennessee, Virginia, Norway, France, Italy, England, the Netherlands and who knows where else. So, people view me as a “white” person.

In my 40’s, I have learned that there is nothing inherent in me to support the notion that I am a “white” person. So, I am now rejecting the label. I am a person. My children are people. My friend, who I heard called a “n*****” by kids driving by in a truck as we walked to his house, is a person too. The humanity of that friend is constantly in danger because of the perception of the kids in that truck that they are white and he is not. But they are not white people. They are people. As is he.

As was Trayvon Martin. As was Michael Brown. As was Eric Garner. As was Tamir Rice. As was Walter Scott…..

If we cannot act to destroy white supremacy. White supremacy will destroy us.

Race is fiction. Love is real.

February 15, 2021February 15, 2021 Durham, fiction, Leah Hidenfelter, love, NH, Race, real

Leah Hidenfelter,
Durham, NH

Race is a category made up to discriminate and distinguish against others. This is a false term to describe those from different backgrounds and communities. Society used this false term to create racism is our world today. Racism is real. However, so is love. Love is used around the world to eliminate the stigma that the idea of race has created. Love can combat with the fiction of the term race.

Citizenship is fact – race is fiction.

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 Ann Arbor, Ann Evans Larimore, citizenship, face, fiction, MI, Race

Ann Evans Larimore,
Ann Arbor, MI.

The fiction of race kills humanity

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 Arroyo, fiction, humanity, kill, Puerto Rico, Race

Arroyo
Puerto Rico

“Race” is Fiction, But “Racism” is Real

November 28, 2017November 28, 2017 fiction, FL, identity, Race, Race Across America: Inconvenient Truths, racism, real, Sarasota, The Autobiography of Obsidian Dumar, Uncomfortable Conversations, Walter Harris Gavin

Walter Harris Gavin,
Sarasota, FL.

Walter Harris Gavin is the author of The Autobiography of Obsidian Dumar, a novel of identity and creator and producer of Race Across America: Inconvenient Truths, Uncomfortable Conversations a web series if visual essays.

Race is fiction, racism is real

January 27, 2017January 27, 2017 black people, colorism, DC, fiction, Phyllis l. Johnson, Race, racism, real, slavery, vestiges, Washington

Phyllis l. Johnson,
Washington, DC.

We as black people still suffer from the vestiges of slavery, like colorism.

A fictitious category yet so powerful

May 1, 2015May 1, 2015 category, College of Saint Benedict, fiction, Manju Parikh, Minneapolis, MN, powerful

Manju Parikh
Minneapolis, MN

Loved your commencement speech at College of Saint Benedict in May 2014

Race is Fiction. Racism is Fact

January 14, 2014January 14, 2014 biology, Boston, Byron Parrish, fact, fiction, MA, Race, racism

Byron Parrish
Boston, MA

The idea of race is a fiction. There is no basis in biology for saying there are different races. Our ideas of race are a social construct, historically made up to support the unequal privileges and disadvantages that occur because of racism. However, racism is a real aspect of life in the USA (and the rest of the world). I am bothered when people say that we need to talk about the problem of race in America, when race doesn’t exist. The problem is Racism in America. Also, being color blind makes one blind not racism, not blind to race. We need to be Truthfully race aware.

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