{"id":39161,"date":"2015-01-01T20:07:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39161"},"modified":"2016-06-20T22:27:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T22:27:40","slug":"i-dont-see-race-i-only-see-grayish-brown-vaguely-humanoid-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39161","title":{"rendered":"I Don\u2019t See Race; I Only See Grayish-Brown, Vaguely Humanoid Shapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/i-dont-see-race-i-only-see-grayishbrown-vaguely-hu,37667\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>I Don\u2019t See Race; I Only See Grayish-Brown, Vaguely Humanoid Shapes<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Onion<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/issue\/5049\/\" target=\"_blank\">Issue 50\u202249<\/a>, 2014-12-12<\/p>\n<p><strong>Janice Ketchum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t understand why everyone seems to be so angry lately. Everywhere you look, there are marches, protests, riots\u2014and all of it over so-called racism in our great country. I just don\u2019t get it. I really don\u2019t. But maybe that\u2019s because, when I look at my fellow Americans, I don\u2019t see a particular race or color. In fact, all I see is just a series of muted, roughly person-shaped silhouettes.<\/p>\n<p>And this world would be a much better place if everyone else did, too.<\/p>\n<p>If we want to go forward as a country, we have to move beyond race once and for all. It\u2019s 2014! Why is it so hard for people to look past each other\u2019s race, like I do, and see everyone as vaporous, beige-ish forms with limbs? All those blurry, vaguely human-shaped troublemakers shouting in the streets and the translucent bleeding-heart blobs moralizing on TV may feel the need to categorize everyone they see by their skin color, but I don\u2019t give it a second thought. I wouldn\u2019t even know how!<\/p>\n<p>Take, for example, the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown\" target=\"_blank\">deaths of Michael Brown<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_of_Eric_Garner\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Garner<\/a>, which sparked widespread outrage over \u201cinstitutional racism.\u201d These protesters are stuck in the past. They haven\u2019t progressed enough to see that we\u2019re all just grayish-brown smudges between approximately 4 and 6 and a half feet tall. They are part of the problem! Whereas they see \u201cblack\u201d victims and \u201cwhite\u201d police, I just see amorphous clouds of the same basic hue, some of which have guns&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read (with tongue-in-cheek) the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/i-dont-see-race-i-only-see-grayishbrown-vaguely-hu,37667\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Don\u2019t See Race; I Only See Grayish-Brown, Vaguely Humanoid Shapes The Onion Issue 50\u202249, 2014-12-12 Janice Ketchum I don\u2019t understand why everyone seems to be so angry lately. Everywhere you look, there are marches, protests, riots\u2014and all of it over so-called racism in our great country. I just don\u2019t get it. I really don\u2019t. 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