George Rebane
Race and racism is again very much in the news. Obama had a white mother and a black father which makes him a mulatto who draws equally from the gene pools of at least two races and continents. Then why is he automatically called a ‘black President’, our first black President?
Not too long ago every race saw the ‘mixing of their blood’ as something to be avoided. This extended from race through ethnicity and region to nationality. Japanese didn’t want their sons and daughters to marry a white, and American southerners didn’t want their kids to marry ‘damyankees’. And I recall some Estonian parents carefully advising their son to look for another Estonian young lady to marry after he had fallen for a deep-rooted American. That son was me.
But in today’s world it seems that the offspring of all cross marriages (or unions) between a ‘white’ partner and a non-white partner get labeled with the non-white partner’s dominant racial characteristic. It’s as if the world thinks that in some way the ‘white race’ (polyglot that it is) is some kind of baseline or standard from which all departures should be measured and called out.
Why can’t a Malaysian-white mixture still be called white, or given a unique new name that recognizes the person’s diverse racial background? Why the common denominator that all such mixed race people must instantly lose their ‘whiteness’ never to return. It’s as if mixing white and something else were an act of pollution where the resultant mixture instantly inherits only the name of the pollutant. To me that is an insidious form of racism that we have practiced for a long time. No doubt in the past it was considered exactly that – race pollution – but have we not progressed beyond that today?
Other non-western cultures have very specific labels for offspring of their race mixed children. The races that are today members of what may loosely be called western civilization continue a very anti-white and information-destroying protocol for race labeling people who are not ‘pure white’. It’s as if to count coup against the white race – ‘once we get one from you, you have lost them from your ranks forever.’ Is it not time for a more enlightened view?
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