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Hyphen’s blog takes a funny look at a couple of recent stories on mixed race identity. For those of you who don’t know, Hyphen is a magazine for the Asian American community.

This post talks about Ward Hines, the recent Miss Georgia (I can’t believe we didn’t post about her! :)), and an article that appeared in Hyphen, by Claire Light, Multi-Racial Dream. She takes a stab at all of the ridiculousness surrounding our fascination with mixed race people and how they are going to “change the world and lead us into colorblindedness!”. Here’s a part of her rant:

See, this is why I’m glad to be biracial. All of you monoracials out there are just people, but me? I’m a magic pill on legs. Doesn’t matter if I never lift a finger in my life, even to pick my nose. Like Haile Selassie or Frodo Baggins, I was born to a higher purpose: to end the racial problem by erasing it.

This is just the pseudo-scientific leading edge of an idea that’s been around for decades, an idea that wets the panties of every American who’s ever felt helpless about being privileged. It’s the dream of future racelessness. If we all shut up and stopped “Balkanizing” into our little identity groups, we could start fucking our way into a dark beige future. My parents got a head start, and once I marry a black/latino/arab, my kid will be a united nations of one. Won’t you join us? Dreaming of a raceless future is much, much easier than getting a handle on racial issues now. In fact, if you contribute to multiraciality (or even just wish along with us) you don’t ever have to wonder if you might be racist, too, or change your lifestyle, ideas, attitudes and behaviors. In fact, if your kid is half black/asian/indian/latino/arab/brownish-something, you’re officially not white anymore.

Say it, sister! ;)