Race is about beginnings. Do we enter the world as colored people or do we become colored people? Chicken or the egg, social colors or creatures, which came first? It is a necessary question if we are to rid ourselves of race. If we are to see that we can live without it, we must […]
I wonder when we will put the two together– race and racism. Theirs is a partnership; the two go hand- in- hand as you cannot have one without the other. In fact, one cannot function without the other. Racism is not the problem. Racism is the way that the system of race works. Racism is […]
I am continuing to explore the varied definitions and understandings of race in hopes of getting to the root of our tensions concerning it. I want to disprove them all. Ultimately, it is my desire to rid the social construct of its illusions and mystery by pinning it down with concrete descriptors. It is important […]