While people certainly have and should enjoy the right to call themselves what they want, no agency at any level of government should be in the business of imposing a “racial” or “ethnic” identity upon anyone. – Charles Michael Byrd
Census Data Not So Confidential After All March 8, 2010 By MARY L. G. THEROUX Also published in San Francisco Examiner, Houston Business Journal, San Francisco Business Times, Providence Journal, Tallahassee Democrat, Gallipolis Daily Tribune, San Marcos Daily Record, Union Daily Times, Daily Sentinel, and Point Pleasant Register The current...
Taressa Stovall of the Montclair Times on Transcending the quest for racial identity: Some bi/multi-racial people feel they have a choice of colors, options for selecting how they define their racial/ethnic identities. Between a...
An interesting observation from the Arab American Institute (a co-partner of mine in several advocacy coalitions): Feeling Safe in Scarborough Country? There are some who argue that 24-hour cable stations have lowered the quality of...
A posting in the Libertarian Party forum at MySpace got me posting there again. The following was written in response to a typical pro-“racial” profiling advocate’s remarks here. As a libertarian, I fail to...
From Charles Michael Byrd, founder of Interracial Voice and author of Beyond Race: The Bhagavad-gita in Black and White: Interracial Voice Poll Questions: Checking “Race” in 2010? http://interracialvoice.com/polls.html Political Identity http://interracialvoice.com/polls2.html Human or Spirit?...
My colleague, Charles Michael Byrd (Interracial Voice) is coordinating a poll regarding "racial" classifications on the 2010 Census, and invites The Multiracial Activist's readers to participate.
Effort to ban race, gender preferences advances in Michigan Detroit Free Press January 6, 2005, 5:49 PM LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A group seeking to ban race and gender-based preferences in university admissions and...
From a forum discussion at One Drop Black: zenpoet2 said: "No, the question isn't when will blacks stop being black…it is when will whites stop being white." Everyone needs to stop being a "race"...
Individual Rights vs. Identity Politics The Abolitionist Examiner December 2004/January 2005 by Wendy McElroy http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/mcelroy9.html This entry also posted at A Mixed Blog and OneDropRule.
Mixed Media Watch said: “I guess you wouldn’t be happy either, if you proposed something and the only supporter was…YOU, yourself!? Check out the plethora of articles out today about the multi-racial check box...
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