In 1655, Elizabeth Key Grinstead, a multiethnic woman filed suit in Virginia seeking freedom based on her father’s European lineage and won her court case. Not long after Elizabeth’s verdict the State of Virginia sought to ensure other multiethnic people … Continue reading Fear Is The Factor!
It was June 2013. Six months into the second term of America’s first black president, a man of mixed heritage, alarm bells were sounded across a country struggling to find its bearings socially, culturally, and spiritually. The day after the … Continue reading From Chattel to Cheerios, We Can Do Better
How do I know I’m Black? Through the tutelage of classmates whose parents taught them they were White, Except when assuring me I shouldn’t be offended when they told ni**er jokes, Because I wasn’t really Black, was I? Except for … Continue reading Colorism’s Comedy
America’s ongoing struggle with the acceptance of interracial families is a reflection of a deeper, more troubling issue: the nation’s failure to educate itself on the true meaning and history of integration. Despite being more diverse in 2024 than ever … Continue reading Mis-Integration: America’s Struggle to Accept What it Started
Definitions are warranted to offer a fundamental framework for this article, with a few substantive (yet certainly not all-inclusive) entries about some of the more salient developments in American history. I would be remiss if I did not point out, … Continue reading The Unintended Ripple Effect of the One Drop Rule: How Miscegenation Backfired on White Supremacy! PART I (of 2)
Believe it or not, the norms of American society – alongside the slavery-adjacent laws instituted within the earliest American states and the widespread falsities of the constructs of race – once insisted that as little as one single drop of … Continue reading “MiscegeNATION: The One-Drop Rule Gone Awry”
In 1852, Frederick Douglass, a formerly enslaved man who had risen to prominence as a powerful orator and advocate for abolition, delivered one of the most searing indictments of American society in his speech, “What to the Slave Is Your … Continue reading What to America is the 2024 Election?
Marcus the Macro Man Ok, so Marcus Garvey didn’t have microaggressions in his vocabulary. Nobody did back then. Furthermore, macro was Garvey’s thing, not micro. Garvey didn’t do anything on a small scale. Garvey believed in BIGness: he BIGGED himself … Continue reading Marcus Garvey on Microaggressions
There are certain words that we have eliminated from our vocabulary at Race2Dinner. And, the reason why is that they were first used to make white people feel less uncomfortable about their continued behaviors that treat others as “less than.” … Continue reading Microaggressions
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