[quote name='MSI Magus']Meh you are you so I really am not that concerned with it, it was just a curiosity. What you say not what demographic you fit in to shapes my view of you. Its just that the view of you had went so strongly in one direction I had to wonder if race played any role in it or not.[/QUOTE]
Of course it plays a part. Most people assume I'm black because I usually focus on the black/white dichotomy from what is perceived to be a black perspective, which is interesting because anti-racism should be race neutral. And when I make that point, then people assume I have "white guilt" and am a brainwashed race-bating self-hater that thinks black people are naturally inferior because the need the hand of a whitey to help them.
The question shouldn't be about what race I am, but why I have to be a certain race, to talk about these things, in people's minds and why we listen to what some people have to say about it and not others.
So instead of asking me if I'm black in a roundabout way, you should be asking yourself why you thought I was black instead(we pretty much already answered this). Then we can examine the underlying layers that create the foundation of this perspective. mykevermin sheds some light on this.
But to get back on topic for a moment: you already know that there's something amiss in the conservative consciousness that makes it "insensitive to matters of race." But we shouldn't be loathe to at least call racist acts/comments a racist act/comment aka pulling out "the race card."
Anywho, this is probably a lot deeper than you wanted to go with this, but its certainly something you can think about.
Of course it plays a part. Most people assume I'm black because I usually focus on the black/white dichotomy from what is perceived to be a black perspective, which is interesting because anti-racism should be race neutral. And when I make that point, then people assume I have "white guilt" and am a brainwashed race-bating self-hater that thinks black people are naturally inferior because the need the hand of a whitey to help them.
The question shouldn't be about what race I am, but why I have to be a certain race, to talk about these things, in people's minds and why we listen to what some people have to say about it and not others.
So instead of asking me if I'm black in a roundabout way, you should be asking yourself why you thought I was black instead(we pretty much already answered this). Then we can examine the underlying layers that create the foundation of this perspective. mykevermin sheds some light on this.
But to get back on topic for a moment: you already know that there's something amiss in the conservative consciousness that makes it "insensitive to matters of race." But we shouldn't be loathe to at least call racist acts/comments a racist act/comment aka pulling out "the race card."
Anywho, this is probably a lot deeper than you wanted to go with this, but its certainly something you can think about.