{"id":7325,"date":"2010-05-24T01:47:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T01:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7325"},"modified":"2017-04-13T22:10:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T22:10:24","slug":"the-multiracial-sheep-is-the-white-supremacist-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7325","title":{"rendered":"The Multiracial Sheep IS the White Supremacist Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackagendareport.com\/?q=content\/multiracial-sheep-white-supremacist-fox\" target=\"_blank\">The Multiracial Sheep IS the White Supremacist Fox<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackagendareport.com\" target=\"_blank\">Black Agenda Report<\/a>: the journal of African American political thought and action<br \/>\n2010-03-16<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.morgan.edu\/College_of_Liberal_Arts\/Departments\/Communication_Studies\/FacultyStaff\/Jared_Ball.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jared A. Ball<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Communication Studies<br \/>\n<em>Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A government and society that is ever ready to restrict the freedoms of Black folks now offers \u201cfreedom\u201d from Blackness. This census and social \u201copt-out\u201d for the progeny of interracial couples allows them to hope to be considered \u201cas something entirely separate, different and apart from\u201d what <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Curtis_Mayfield\" target=\"_blank\">Curtis Mayfield<\/a> called the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iPmc_ze6mes\" target=\"_blank\">dark deep well<\/a>.\u201d The Black \u201cbaggage\u201d can be left behind.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s be very clear from the outset.\u00a0 Multiracial categorization is an aggressive defense of white supremacy.<\/strong>\u00a0 Multiracial census categorization, particularly in the era of what some are calling the first <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Black and multiracial president<\/a>, is, pun-intended, the bulked up steroid-induced version of the old sports aphorism that \u201cthe best defense is a good offense.\u201d\u00a0 By aggressively encouraging younger generations to identify officially as multiracial the national desire to disappear worsening racial divides gets further juice by offering folks a chance to both adopt the illusion of the \u201cpost-racial\u201d and to seemingly categorize themselves away from, if not out of, oppression. The beautiful dialectic traditionally developed in this country\u2019s form of white supremacy was its built-in inability to be white and forced inclusion into Black which has made Black America, if even to a fault, among the most diverse, open and accepting communities in the world.\u00a0 It also increased the potential that that community would become more threatening to white domination which has led to the centuries-long development of neocolonial-styled light-skin privilege as a mechanism of siphoning off some of the more willing participants in an escape from blackness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackagendareport.com\/?q=content\/multiracial-sheep-white-supremacist-fox\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A government and society that is ever ready to restrict the freedoms of Black folks now offers \u201cfreedom\u201d from Blackness. This census and social \u201copt-out\u201d for the progeny of interracial couples allows them to hope to be considered \u201cas something entirely separate, different and apart from\u201d what Curtis Mayfield called the \u201cdark deep well.\u201d The Black \u201cbaggage\u201d can be left behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,26,394,20],"tags":[3047,3048,5958],"class_list":["post-7325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-black-agenda-report","tag-jared-a-ball","tag-jared-ball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325","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=7325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53493,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325\/revisions\/53493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}