{"id":51498,"date":"2017-02-11T02:42:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T02:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51498"},"modified":"2017-02-11T20:52:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T20:52:20","slug":"why-a-new-mixed-race-generation-will-not-solve-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51498","title":{"rendered":"Why A New Mixed Race Generation Will Not Solve\u00a0Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why A New Mixed Race Generation Will Not Solve\u00a0Racism<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

BuzzFeed<\/a>
\n2017-02-10<\/p>\n

Lauren Michele Jackson<\/strong><\/a>, BuzzFeed Contributor
\nChicago, Illinois<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nA promotional still from A United Kingdom<\/em><\/a>. Fox Searchlight Pictures<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Love may trump hate, but it can\u2019t cure white supremacy.<\/em><\/p>\n

On January 23, Chrissy Teigen<\/a> \u2014 model,<\/b> \u201cdomestic goddess<\/a>,\u201d and number one John Legend troll<\/a> \u2014 decided to have some fun with Richard Spencer<\/a> on Twitter. Now best known as the neo-Nazi<\/a> who got punched at the January 20 presidential inauguration, Spencer was salving his wounded pride with a \u201cselection of Nelson Mandela quotes. \ud83d\ude09<\/a>\u201d. The tweet to which Teigen responded, however, was actually a quote from Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung<\/a>. \u201cI am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become,\u201d Spencer tweeted. Teigen\u2019s @reply: \u201cyou became someone who was punched in the face.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Spencer attempted to embarrass Teigen, implying she was not educated enough to recognize a quote from Mandela<\/a> (while, again, the quote in question was not from Mandela), Teigen responded with<\/a> \u201cyou are a literally a nazi. I don\u2019t even need to come up with a comeback. Thanks, nazi!\u201d Teigen meanwhile tweeted<\/a> to her followers sans @reply, \u201cHey guys, just conversing with a literal nazi over here wyd,\u201d followed by \u201cNothing I could say will piss him off more than the fact I have a black\/asian\/white baby. Life is grand.<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

A month prior, Ellen Pompeo<\/a> of Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/i><\/a> summoned her black husband and mixed children in a similar maneuver, if under slightly different circumstances. Against criticism she received for her usage of brown emojis<\/a> in a tweet<\/a> applauding A&E\u2019s decision to revamp its (now canceled) docuseries on the KKK<\/a>, Pompeo told followers<\/a>, \u201cYou do realize\u2026being married to a black man and having black children can make you a target from racist white people right? That\u2019s a thing.\u201d In response to one user\u2019s taunt (\u201cSHUT UP, WHITE LADY\u201d) she tweeted<\/a>, \u201cThat\u2019s white lady with a black husband and black children to you babe.\u201d<\/p>\n

In their respective contexts, the tweets from Teigen and Pompeo look very different if not completely contradictory. Chrissy Teigen snubs the nose of a professed white supremacist and flounces away with her superstar black husband and multiracial child; Pompeo calls up her black husband and children to deflect criticism. And yet, very similarly, both position interracial relationships \u2014 implied in Teigen\u2019s case \u2014 and multiracial children as the antidote to racism. That they are both able to invoke this rationale so congruently points to a culture-wide infatuation with interracial relationships and their heteronormative<\/a> outcome, multiracial children. In advertising, on film, and on TV, there is a common preference for multiracial-looking people, along with the belief that they represent a utopian political future. Why do multiracial children so often function as the antonym for racism? What is the political value of an interracial relationship? The notion that cream-colored babies will save the world is a popular one. Unfortunately, it\u2019s a myth…<\/p>\n

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