When I think about how to understand my racial identity, it gets so complicated as to defy definition.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, I'm classified as "white," because they define that category to include people from North Africa and the Middle East. As a Sicilian, I look to my
North African Berber and Arab heritage as much as I do to
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It's so hard to be America when the universe refuses to re-order itself to suit one's own idea of natural whitenesssuperiority. D: D: D:
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But there are a lot of Americans who do have a clue.
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I'm guessing this resulted from the famous photo of the Allied leaders at the Versailles conference--
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It is so often forgotten that in the UK, class often trumped race as a social disadvantage. It is still the case- to the extent that Trevor Phillips, head of the equalities commission (and a PoC) has got himself into trouble with the white, politically correct, chattering classes, for daring to suggest the white working class in the UK are now an oppressed minority! .
It's been slightly amusing to watch fellow commission member, Ben Summerskill (also leader of Stonewall UK, as you probably know and the son of a peeress) being totally unable to check his privilege and flouncing out in a huff because a member of a racial minority (and also, btw, of working class origin) dares to question his attitudes towards minorities and his snobbery towards the working class......ironic, much?
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