{"id":22986,"date":"2013-04-04T20:54:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T20:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22986"},"modified":"2016-05-19T02:35:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T02:35:46","slug":"blackness-is-the-fulcrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22986","title":{"rendered":"Blackness Is The Fulcrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racefiles.com\/2012\/05\/04\/blackness-is-the-fulcrum\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blackness Is The Fulcrum<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racefiles.com\" target=\"_blank\">RaceFiles: On Race and Racism in our Politics and Daily Lives<\/a><br \/>\n2012-05-04<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nakagawascot\" target=\"_blank\">Scot Nakagawa<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Partner<br \/>\n<em>ChangeLab<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m often asked why I\u2019ve focused so much more on anti-black racism than on Asians over the years. Some suggest I suffer from internalized racism.<\/p>\n<p>That might well be true since who <em>doesn\u2019t<\/em> suffer from internalized racism?\u00a0 I mean, even white people internalize racism. The difference is that white people\u2019s internalized racism is against people of color, and it\u2019s backed up by those who control societal institutions and capital.<\/p>\n<p>But some folk have more on their minds.\u00a0 They say that focusing on black and white reinforces a false racial binary that marginalizes the experiences of non-black people of color. No argument here. But I also think that trying to mix things up by putting non-black people of color in the middle is a problem because there\u2019s no \u201cmiddle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So there\u2019s most of my answer. I\u2019m sure I do suffer from internalized racism, but I don\u2019t think that racism is defined only in terms of black and white. I also don\u2019t think white supremacy is a simple vertical hierarchy with whites on top, black people on the bottom, and the rest of us in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>So why do I expend so much effort on lifting up the oppression of black people? <strong>Because anti-black racism is the fulcrum of white supremacy<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racefiles.com\/2012\/05\/04\/blackness-is-the-fulcrum\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackness Is The Fulcrum RaceFiles: On Race and Racism in our Politics and Daily Lives 2012-05-04 Scot Nakagawa, Senior Partner ChangeLab I\u2019m often asked why I\u2019ve focused so much more on anti-black racism than on Asians over the years. Some suggest I suffer from internalized racism. That might well be true since who doesn\u2019t suffer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,394,20],"tags":[12742,12743,10674],"class_list":["post-22986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-racefiles","tag-racefiles-on-race-and-racism-in-our-politics-and-daily-lives","tag-scot-nakagawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42031,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22986\/revisions\/42031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}