{"id":2929,"date":"2019-11-12T18:41:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T18:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2019-11-12T18:41:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T18:41:29","slug":"unraveling-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2019\/11\/unraveling-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Unraveling Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2019\/11\/thomas-chatterton-williams-self-portrait-black-white\/601408\/\">Unraveling Race    <br \/>Thomas Chatterton Williams wants to discard traditional racial categories.<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an interesting point of view. I think it lacks a connection to the real, dirty world of everyday reality.<\/p>\n<p><em>Williams understands that his path is not necessarily for everyone. \u201cI am not so ingenuous as to think everyone can want to reconceive themselves,\u201d he writes. \u201cBut I do believe the more people of good will\u2014white, black, and everything in between\u2014try, the more the rigidity of our collective faith in race will necessarily soften.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>People mostly just want to have decent, happy lives. Race \u2014obviously as a social construct and cultural angle\u2014 will determine a lot of outcome, out of the womb.<\/p>\n<p>Of course you might want to identify with the powerful ones. Which are not black (not that we can\u2019t be powerful but with an <em>average<\/em> wealth ten to a <em>hundred times<\/em> smaller, obviously, it\u2019s very much harder).<\/p>\n<p>And your face will determine a lot, as we all know. If you look like a negro, even if your skin is #FFFFFF you won\u2019t be treated the same in western society. This intellectualism about what you call yourself and what you identify with, becomes pointless in the day-to-day life. It\u2019s all about what opportunities are more or less available and how it\u2019s consistently worse for black people, every, single, time. No matter what. If you can un-identify with blackness so that you can have a decent life, considering the receipts of the past 60 years, you might want to do it. It makes sense. Weak, but it makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>As a black man I am not as free to choose as I want to be. In our society that\u2019s more of a feature than a bug. I don\u2019t have a problem identifying as black while doing black things like designing sound, a future home, reading a lot about everything, being extremely proficient with a computer and knowing its history as well as 90s rock or 80s funk etc.<\/p>\n<p>The day wealth is completely, evenly redistributed, black people will be able to not care about race at all. <\/p>\n<p>Which we didn\u2019t obsess with in the first place, to be clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unraveling Race Thomas Chatterton Williams wants to discard traditional racial categories. It\u2019s an interesting point of view. I think it lacks a connection to the real, dirty world of everyday reality. Williams understands that his path is not necessarily for everyone. \u201cI am not so ingenuous as to think everyone can want to reconceive themselves,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}