The other thing is, as Reggie [G. Reginald Daniel] said, Reggie knows that we are all multiracial. |
The other thing is, as Reggie [G. Reginald Daniel] said, Reggie knows that we are all multiracial. He doesn’t need a genetic test to prove that. I mean, we know that. Even though this can tell us new information—and I think it is an opportunity for conversation—it’s not enough because we already know it and it hasn’t been enough. You know that slave owners knew those brown children where their children. Did it matter? They knew those were multiracial children were related to them. It didn’t make a difference… To me it is a political revolution that we need to see that we’re connected as human beings. Genetics isn’t going to do it by itself.
Dorothy Roberts, “A Rx for the FDA: Ethical Dilemmas for Multiracial People in Race-Based Medicine” (panel at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, November 5-6, 2010).
Tags: Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, Dorothy Roberts, G. Reginald Daniel