Who are they kidding ? / De qui se moquent-ils ? (#2 / N° 2)

It is really amazing to see how FAR racists will go to deny evidence...

C'est incroyable de constater à quel points les racistes sont dans le déni de réalité...

Denial of Reality and History./ Déni de réalité et d'histoire

Why does it bother you when people call you...

black / white / yellow / red ?

You were never asked that question ?

I was.


So, I reply with an other question: "Why doesn't it bother you ?"

Why doesn't it bother you to be defined racially ?
Why doesn't it bother you, to be applied a color that isn't even a skin color, to be reduced to "that", to that racial object ?

Why doesn't it bother you to be taken away from your own self and reified ?

Why doesn't it bother you to be "proud of your race" ?

Because, it doesn't bother me at all, not at all, not to belong to a race.

Not at all.

Who said I must be racially defined ?
Who said it is an obligation ?

Is it not racists ?
First those that created races. Then those that inserted them in the laws. Then those that exploited them. Then those that expressed their race pride. Then those that continue to use those terms without even knowing what they are referring to.

White, black, yellow, red

Why bother with the words the racists used ? 

White, black, yellow, red. 

You can turn them around as much as you want. They were boxes in which they put themselves and others. 

So that we forgot our common humanity. 

They chose them because they had a meaning that dated back to the European Middle Ages.

They were never meant to define "WHO" we are but "WHAT" we are supposed to be in THEIR minds. 

"WHAT" because these were first LIES and then LEGAL DEFINITIONS. In the Virginia laws of the late 1660s that DECIDED Africans were "blacks" and *therefore* slaves for generations and in the French "Le Code Noir" which stated the exact same thing. 
And it still works 300 years later, in our minds.

Now, I can understand that African-Americans (which I think is a more accurate political description) would continue to call themselves "black" as a way to "possess" the definition that those who called themselves "whites" imposed on them. 

But it doesn't change the fact that these words designate races and that races are the fundamentals of racism...

Time flies...

Hi visitors, 
time flies... and I haven't been able to work on the ten or so posts that I have started. But it will come. Gush all at once...
Here are the themes I am working on: "colors or races ?", "racism and/or hatred", "what is racism ?", "the Mysteries of Egypt", "Disney and racism", "racism or not ?"


Bonjour chers visiteurs et visiteuses, 
le temps passe tellement vite... Je n'ai pas trouvé le temps de travailler sur les dix ou plus articles que j'ai commencé. Ils vont tous arriver... en même temps.
Voici les thèmes que je prépare: "couleurs ou races ?", "racisme et/ou haine ?" "le racisme, c'est quoi ?", "Les Mystères de l'Egypte", "Disney et le racisme", "racisme ou pas ?"