Why be Anti-Racist This American Election in 2024?
I Still Choose the Uneasy Path of Diversity
I could quit. I could just become white. I could stop researching this American racial history stuff and stop writing about it. I’ll tell you this, it would bring down my blood pressure. I feel like now I’m getting it sometimes from “both sides.” It’s not easy to advocate from democracy and for multi-racial people who don’t always want you to.
As the election of 2024 draws near, black Americans and LBGTQI+ are getting more outraged and talking back. As they should. The incredible ramped up attacks by Trump and his Fox and Friend Networks are increasing.
White racists are the hard-core truth of the Republican Party right now. They are the controlling angry bullies. When you hear them talk when confronted, they scream Shut Up in so many different ways but usually with a personal attack. You look like a clown? They instantly turn attacks on the personal, revealing a thinking pattern that is not capable of acceptance of others and sees only surfaces. They are less than skin deep. Their national political conventions are almost completely white or completely.
My daughter has multi-racial friends in her middle school, one from each “race” but white. I see many other “mixed race” friendship groups all around, not just of students by adults. I…
