Race Identification

courtesy GJD

Material Conditions of Race Identification

Scientifically there is only one race, the Black race. Every single one of us came from Black ancestors originating in southern Africa.  White people are Black people too, but who do not accept that they are Black.

There have been only two countries that codified race into its laws, the United States and South Africa. The codification of race into laws was based on economics conditions that created a social structure of so called White supremacy.  We have seen several permutation of White supremacy as the economic conditions change, Ante Bellum Civil War racism, Jim Crow racism, and now a new Jim Crow racism.

In all cases Black people were cut off economically and oppressed socially. In order to overcome this oppression some of us Black people who could pass for White people did so in order to survive. Several of my people did so and some were killed when they were outed.  Passing was and is risky for some of us.

We in the Black community are very accepting. We have accepted everyone who says she is Black. We have accepted all races and so called mixture of races and all skin shades, and all languages as a part of our Family, after all everyone came out same African ancestry about 200, 000 years ago. In the United States it is an unwritten law that when you have dark skin and speak English you are Black.

What we don’t accept, based on my limited experience on earth, are people who separate themselves and attack us. These people are the KKK and Nazis and other groups who pretend they are better than us Black people. Some people with dark skin do not think of themselves as Black and attack us as well.

Regarding that lady in Spokane who is “transracial”, she is a media creation intended to take our minds off of the real issues of racial disparities.  I think if she wants to identify as Black, she can and she is welcomed. After all she can trace her ancestry to the migration of our ancestors out of Africa. Whether it is a fraud to imply that she has had the experience of an Afro American woman when applying as president of the NAACP, which is something between her and the NAACP.  Since she has resigned that issue might be moot.

It is time to focus on fighting racism in the City of Worcester and elsewhere.