{"id":45038,"date":"2016-01-10T22:09:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T22:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45038"},"modified":"2016-11-16T23:35:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T23:35:13","slug":"a-note-on-race-and-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45038","title":{"rendered":"A note on race and racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@tomolefe\/a-note-on-race-and-racism-3d84f2be78a5\" target=\"_blank\">A note on race and racism<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\" target=\"_blank\">Medium<\/a><br \/>\n2016-01-08<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@tomolefe\" target=\"_blank\">T.O. Molefe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa<\/a> has made it clear there are many people who have a limited understanding of race and racism\u200a\u2014\u200atwo very different things. Either that or they are working with different definitions (and moral theories) and don\u2019t know it, or lack the diligence and honesty to reconcile their definition with those of others.<\/p>\n<p>This note outlines a few points on race and racism that guide my thinking and writing. I\u2019m committing it to the internet in the hopes it might help others think through the issues and let readers of my work understand some of its underpinnings.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Race is meaningless. The categories (race groups) of human it creates are based on characteristics that are largely superficial and often not exclusive to that group. If the borders of the categories are porous and the categories don\u2019t tell you anything essential to the being of what is categorised, then the categories are meaningless.<\/li>\n<li>Race was conjured into existence from virtually nothing, and backed with military might and untruthful intellectual projects, to perpetuate slavery, justify European imperialism and colonialism, and defend white supremacy\u200a\u2014\u200aideologies all founded in a belief in the individual\u2019s right to property to the denial of others. Without the individual\u2019s right to property, no person could own another. No person could land upon a shore and lay claim to it as theirs alone. No law could be enacted and enforced denying people this right&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@tomolefe\/a-note-on-race-and-racism-3d84f2be78a5\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A note on race and racism Medium 2016-01-08 T.O. Molefe This week in South Africa has made it clear there are many people who have a limited understanding of race and racism\u200a\u2014\u200atwo very different things. Either that or they are working with different definitions (and moral theories) and don\u2019t know it, or lack the diligence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,459,8,394,520],"tags":[18537,22576],"class_list":["post-45038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-south-africa","tag-medium","tag-t-o-molefe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45038","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=45038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45042,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45038\/revisions\/45042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}