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208043, Post racial doesn't mean racism is over Posted by GirlChild, Fri Jun-12-15 04:31 PM
Post racial is more about race not being a determining factor but still acknowledging that race exists.
I personally don't believe in it as it's pretty self referential. The problem with this woman is that she took generalizations of what it means to be a blk women and that was stupid and short sighted. Her definition is so limiting. And at the end of the day she can run back to her whiteness and be ok. Same with anyone who's white that grew up around mostly blk folks. They might culturally identify as blk but they aren't ethnically and will not be treated as such in society.
It's easy to say that we are conventional to ideas of race when you're in a position of privilege and you are the majority. When we are given equal citizenship perhaps we can talk about fluidity.
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