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White supremacy roars its ugly head again.
Birtherism is back
Now that Sen. Kamals Harris (D-CA) presidential candidacy is on the rise, conservative Republicans are obsessed with asserting their white supremacy affinity to control Harris’s narrative, race, and American identity.
What is your race?
The first thing people need to understand is, skin color doesn’t define race. Designating skin complexion is a system created by racists to deliberately justify bigotry, division, and violence.
That said, people have grown accustomed to identifying skin color to signify ones race. And of course, this means quantifying skin color to determine your race has caused decades of pain and chaos. Race assigning is simply a ploy to control who can take claim to a culture and country.
I hearken back to the 19th-century scientist, Samuel Morton, who collected skulls, “scavenged from battlefields and snatched from catacombs,” with the mission to divide the skulls into five different races, believing them to be “…a separate means of creation,” as reported by Elizabeth Kolbert for the National Geographic. Thus, the Morton separation, as I’m choosing to describe it, took shape.
Morton didn’t ascribe to the notion of the bible that we all are descendants of one creator; instead he practiced polytheism, a multiple race theory. Ironically, polytheism is similar to slaves holders use of the bible in believing that not all races are equal, but some are inferior to others — with people of African descent often described as the most inferior to all the other races.
The race divide
But Africans aren’t the only ones with dark skin. Brown and black skin people exist all over the world — from Jamaica to Brasil, Central America and Latin America, and the Middle East, to name a few. This means-testing purely off of skin tone is nonsense, yet, this nonsense thrives. And in America, this nonsense is held in our Census too.
The Census, to me, is one of the most racist applications in our society, yet it bears significant importance in our electorate. The Census literally determines government representation, who then, determine our districts, funding for…
