{"id":38780,"date":"2014-12-10T17:54:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T17:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38780"},"modified":"2017-03-25T17:44:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T17:44:18","slug":"unpopular-opinion-6-reasons-why-your-utopic-vision-for-a-mixed-race-future-is-my-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38780","title":{"rendered":"UNPOPULAR OPINION: 6 Reasons Why Your Utopic Vision for a Mixed-Race Future is My Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xojane.com\/issues\/your-mixed-race-utopia-is-my-nightmare\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>UNPOPULAR OPINION: 6 Reasons Why Your Utopic Vision for a Mixed-Race Future is My Nightmare<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xojane.com\" target=\"_blank\">xoJane<\/a><br \/>\n2014-12-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kristinawong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kristina Wong<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Guess what? One day, when we\u2019re all mixed race, racism won\u2019t magically disappear.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Before you start trolling me (not that I don\u2019t need the attention), let me tell you the specific sentiment that this whole essay addresses. It usually starts when someone chimes in with their wide-eyed vision for 2050, the year when people of color will outnumber white people in America:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOne day when all the races have mixed together, and we can\u2019t tell what anyone is anymore, there won\u2019t be racism! All our cultures will blend together! And&#8230;the babies will be beautiful!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah yes! This magic mixed-race future, where everyone will have fucked the hate out of everyone and in the process, thousands of years of colonialism, violence, and systemic oppression disappear into the \u201cinteresting facial features\u201d of mixed-race people!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not indicting the lives of mixed-race people nor chastising interracial relationships. But let\u2019s get real \u2014 the hypothetical \u201cFuture World of Mixed-Race Babies\u201d being the end of racism suffers from frighteningly naive logic about how racism actually works.<\/p>\n<p>Here are SIX reasons why racial utopia won\u2019t suddenly appear once we pull our pants down and start boning across borders&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xojane.com\/issues\/your-mixed-race-utopia-is-my-nightmare\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess what? One day, when we\u2019re all mixed race, racism won\u2019t magically disappear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,16,459,8,394,20],"tags":[18660,18659],"class_list":["post-38780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-asia","category-history","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-kristina-wong","tag-xojane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38780","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=38780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51813,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38780\/revisions\/51813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}