this is the worst person, he has yet to make a single point. american exceptionalism is racist, delegitimation of aave is racist, a suggestion of cultural inferiority bc of choices in fashion is racist... pretending black ppl don’t get hired because they sag is a racist lie https://twitter.com/christianwalk1r/status/1288528118655795200

i’m trying hard to resist doing the “i hate mixed people” thing... because it would be the same, for me, as when white people say “oh my god i hate white ppl,” while doing nothing to challenge their own whiteness.... but it’s just really ugly out here yall.

racial ambiguity is regularly used as a tool of white supremacy, but it won’t matter in in the end, bc proximity to whiteness is unstable. mixed people’s conditional “whiteness” will ultimately fail to protect them from the violences of their racial subjection once inconvenient

there will be no justice for non-white ppl, not even for mixed folks who “are also white,” under the terms of the racial contract as it stands

be wary of the ppl who slip into their whiteness because they find it convenient. the capacity and will to do so is only made possible/conjured by white supremacy
... it’s not the same as ~acknowledging privilege~

and it’s not just ~part-white~ folks. “mixed ppl” who are not white are also prone to wielding one privileged racial id as a convenient shield over and against the other, and this reifies the violence of racism by legitimizing false racial norms

doing so suggests the existence of endogenous differences between different races of ppl, and then assigns power/value/merit based on those differences... this is how racecraft happens, how the project of white supremacy is furthered

check it https://twitter.com/public_archive/status/1273346552749150208

mixed ppl constantly use this ambiguity to their benefit at the expense of those who do not have the same access to whiteness, and thus Humanity

in other words, non-white “mixed ppl,” slipping conveniently between races(whose humanity are determined solely by proximity to “whiteness,” a category developed in antithesis to blackness) serves to illuminate how ALL forms of racial oppression are animated by antiblackness

on the flip, “biracial” folk can also conveniently claim their marginalized id as a means of avoiding accountability

à la “it’s chill, i’m (insert race) too. how am I being violent toward (said race)? how could i be?”
^the pretend cluelessness obscures what is plainly violent

point is— biraciality as an identity can be used to explain geneology, but it doesn’t do a whole lot to account for your positionality in the real-world. and toooo often, yall get into weird race science over it like it’s back to the eugenics movement or sumn

logic and halsey, this ones for u