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Follow Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines. Non negotiable. This is the bedrock and mods will make decisions with this always in mind.
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This community is for ethnic minorities and people of color. This is a safe space where such people can freely discuss their struggles, insight, and thoughts without fear. If you are not, we respectfully ask you do not post or comment here. A future community will be established to allow for racial discussions with a mixed userbase. However, remember, comments here must still respect Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines.
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Irony Racism is still racism. Racism is bad m'kay? We will treat irony racism and bad faith racist satire as racism. Will wield the ban hammer accordingly.
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I don't look XYZ and/or sometimes I can pass as white so I don't know if I can post here. Can I?
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William Frank Jr., born on this day in 1931, was an indigenous environmental leader and treaty rights activist known for his use of the "fish-in", a civil disobedience tactic used to win indigenous rights to natural resources.
A Nisqually tribal member, Frank is particularly known for his grassroots campaign for fishing rights on the tribe's Nisqually River. Frank was arrested more than 50 times in the "Fish Wars" of the 1960s and 1970s because of his intense dedication to the treaty fishing rights cause.
The tribal struggle was taken to the courts in "U.S. v. Washington", with federal judge George Hugo Boldt issuing a ruling in favor of the native tribes in 1974. The "Boldt Decision" established the 20 treaty Indian tribes in western Washington as co-managers of the salmon resource with the State of Washington, and re-affirmed tribal rights to half of the harvestable salmon returning to western Washington.
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Normative take on interracial relationships + my rant
This is a YouTube comment I copied verbatim from a YouTube video by a more "woke" Black woman talking about interracial relationships. This comment got 60+ likes and no pushback, really.
Listen, I am not going out here and telling other people, "Only date your own race." I got better use of my energy, but what is disturbing is this being conflated with a personal refusal to date out. Saying I "[sound] racist" and "[sound] wrong" just for acknowledging that race matters, and that includes in the context of the relationship with the person I'd be the most intimate and personal with for the rest of my life, is woefully misguided and undialectical.
This should be very obvious, but for some reason, it isn't.
Something that disturbs the shit out of me is people who want to acknowledge that the personal is political for EVERYTHING but romance.
Some of the same "woke" people who want to talk about how race affects experiences in employment, housing, healthcare, education, the media, social life/friendships, hobbies, etc. all of a sudden feel inclined to throw that level of clarity out the window the moment the subject matter is romance. At that point, then they want to just individualize something that they should know exists within a larger system. At that point, it's just about "individual character" and "personal preference."
By the way, personal "preference" does not exist in a vacuum. When a Black man says, "I prefer white women because they're calm, feminine, and have good hair!", that is not some innocuous "preference." That is white supremacy being internalized.
Race is real. It's real via reification of a system predicated on pseudoscience, yes, but it is still real. That does not change just because a Black person and a white person fall for each other.
I truly believe that many people in interracial relationships are not properly equipped for all the extra labor it will entail, and me? I will pass on taking on that additional labor.