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1. RACE: Are We So Different? (A Homework Assignment) « Trying to follow RACE: Are We So Different? (A Homework Assignment) on 22 Jan 2007 at 2:17 pm

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1. kim wrote:

   NAACP Image Awards:

   Don’t Do It.

   Posted 11 Jan 2007 at 1:01 pm ¶

2. kim wrote:

   Science Museum:

   The more we seek to speak to the idea that there are biological and physiological differences which manifest in real, concrete differences of our being…we feed the tricky demon. We speak to those who claim there is authority to hold to such differences, and to the ensuing separation, stratification, tension, resistance, fear and hatred.

   I know that refusing to engage doesn’t work in this instance, but neither does meeting others on their own turf, in order to develop a language they gave birth to, in order to dispel their myths and fantasies. Such engagement can work sometimes, I will concede, speaking with authority in the same language.

   But come on! When you cut me, I bleed. I give birth through a uterine canal and vaginal opening, deliver a live young, who must develop language skills, the ability to walk, chew, run and snap his fingers (Oh! Those people can’t do that, see,they’re really oranguatans, or lesser Martians from the third quadrant on the dark side of that distant planet).

   I say: everybody reach out and touch somebody’s hand. Now close your eyes and do it again. Feel a difference in the basic musculature and dermis? No. Now let’s all clap, you’ve got it.

   Posted 11 Jan 2007 at 1:15 pm ¶

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