RE: Local Washington State NAACP Leader Outed By Parents As White
June 15, 2015 at 4:48 pm
(This post was last modified: June 15, 2015 at 4:55 pm by Regina.)
That's what happens when a country makes "speaking Spanish" a race.
The article describes this student as "light skinned". No, she's probably white (i.e totally European in ancestry), but because speaking Spanish makes you automatically not white in America she's "light skinned". Being white doesn't make you any less Hispanic, it just means you're white. "Hispanic" and whatever race you happen to be are two separate identities. There's no way to "look Hispanic", although being in a position of supposed knowledge on racial issues Dolezal should have known that.
The article describes this student as "light skinned". No, she's probably white (i.e totally European in ancestry), but because speaking Spanish makes you automatically not white in America she's "light skinned". Being white doesn't make you any less Hispanic, it just means you're white. "Hispanic" and whatever race you happen to be are two separate identities. There's no way to "look Hispanic", although being in a position of supposed knowledge on racial issues Dolezal should have known that.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
