I think it would be wise for people who are biracial and multiracial to never forget that this is a system of formal historical and institutional white supremacy.

I think it would be wise for people who are biracial and multiracial to never forget that this is a system of formal historical and institutional white supremacy. And I’m afraid sometimes, there are a lot incentives that the culture puts out there to biracial and multiracial people to forget that… …Because they’re not quite as Black, or they’re not quite as Brown. And so there is a tendency for people to think that they really escape that system… …That they’re not really in that system… …So, multiracial, biracial folks: claim all of, claim every piece of it. Do not forget where one still sits on the trajectory of white supremacy. Because when once you forget that, there is real danger, real danger.

Tim Wise, “Racism, White Supremacy and Biracial/Multiraciality (2011),” Tim Wise, Antiracist Essayist, Author and Educator, Talk at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, (September, 2011). http://www.timwise.org/2012/09/insights-and-outbursts-volume-2/.

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