I’m self-identified white American born and raised in the Bay Area of California. In this blog, I ramble on about race and racism, a cause and issue close to my heart. But I don’t update this nearly enough…
A little more about me
For my undergraduate studies, I obtained a degree in Biological Anthropology from UC San Diego. There I focused on human evolution and genetic variability. I was trying to find some of the root causes for racism through hard science. While I found lots to refute the very idea of race, racism persisted. So in pursuit of race, cultural identity and racism, I entered the Masters program at San Francisco State University in Cultural Anthropology where I completed my thesis dealing with the media representation of Asian Americans.
I dabbled in some policy work with the Applied Research Center (internship), but ultimately had to pay rent so I went back into the technology sector.
I’m bored and my true calling keeps knocking on my brain. Hence, for now, this blog.
Feel free to email me: tryturkey AT yahoo DOT com.
Hi, I really appreciate your thoughts and care on this frustrating subject. I’m presently working on my doctoral thesis and am attempting to define some of the human condition that causes us to try to find identity in our own cultures thus causing other cultures to be inferior in our minds like it or not. I think you are on to something here, and I will follow your thoughts.
Brad
I do like your blog, and I think your articles are just the kind of thing to keep the dialogue going and make people aware of the racism within society so that we can all address it. Your blog is needed and appreciated. It will make things better.
However, I think it’s a shame you chose to give the blog such a negative title, because although racism definitely exists, things are not as bad as they were forty, or even twenty, years ago. And racism is on it’s way out. It will take a lot of time, and much more dialogue, awareness, vigilence and integration, but racism will eventually go. We just need to push it out, and keep blogging.
The negative title is meant to evoke thoughts and dialogue and possible disagreement only to realize that while racism may not be at the fore-front as it once was, it is intentionally hiding in obvious places and institutions.
White liberal America has taught us to love “multiculturalism” and that “things are not as bad as they were,” but I ask, are you sure about that? What IS multiculturalism other than dressing up like false traditionals and parading around like everything is OK?
But you’re right, things are certainly different. However, when every one hails the “end of racism” because we have one black president, I have to say that the negative, jarring, anger inducing title of this blog will wake us up and we’ll realize that we still have a long, long, LONG way to go.