{"id":57949,"date":"2019-04-19T21:27:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T21:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57949"},"modified":"2019-04-19T21:28:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T21:28:06","slug":"we-cant-screw-ourselves-out-of-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57949","title":{"rendered":"We Can\u2019t Screw Ourselves Out of Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Can\u2019t Screw Ourselves Out of Racism<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Medium<\/a>
\n2019-03-28<\/p>\n

Daniella Barreto<\/strong><\/a>, Digital Activism Coordinator
\nAmnesty International<\/em>
\nToronto, Ontario, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nIllustration by Maia Boakye<\/a> (@\/ghostyboi<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n

Multiracial kids won\u2019t end racism. Stop acting like we can.<\/p>\n

In case you\u2019ve been living under a six-ton boulder for the last five years, featuring mixed-race couples is the hot new thing in advertising. It\u2019s edgy! It\u2019s progressive! It\u2019s absolutely adorable! Best of all, it is accessible to anyone who\u2019s willing to test out their new Diversity Strategy™ and choose to see the backlash as free PR: banks, clothing brands, jewellers, mattresses, cereals, you name it. We haven\u2019t stopped at plain old mixed race heteros<\/a>, lord no. Ever heard of representation? Give me mixed race gays. Add some kids! (Just don\u2019t get into that queer or trans business much because there\u2019s not a lot of expendable cash in that.) Diversity\u2019s the in-thing! The opportunities are endless.<\/em><\/p>\n

Our obsession with diversity reveals far more about us than we think. And serves as a convenient distraction to avoid doing any real equity work.<\/p>\n

Mixed race relationships are not inherently progressive, radical, or even healthy. That includes queer ones. The mainstream gawks at multiracial people and mixed-race relationships, turning us into superheroes or weirdos, statistical outliers<\/a> divorced from the historical impacts of colonization and anti-Black racism\u200a\u2014\u200aparticularly in a Canada<\/a> so smitten with itself that it has started to believe its own lies about multiculturalism.<\/p>\n

It is a gross misunderstanding and a cruel oversimplification of the magnitude and insidiousness of white supremacy (and basic genetics) to think that if we all just fuck each other more or have mixed babies that we will get along better, turn the same shade of beige, and lo, racism will vanish…<\/p>\n

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