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Racial Identity Is Not a Zero Sum Game

Sarah E. Gaither, writing for Vox:

I can’t speak for all biracial people. And I’m not saying that Meghan Markle and Barack Obama and other celebrities should be removed from the black community and added to the biracial community; racial identity is not and should not be a zero-sum game. It is clear that everyone needs positive representation, especially racial and ethnic minorities and women. But the either/or system that so much of our society uses simply doesn’t work when a biracially identified person is involved.

I struggle to cancel out my stupid meat brain’s automatic categorization of people based on superficialities. People are a lot happier when they’re free to assert their identities for themselves — or choose not to at all — than when others impose at-best misguided perceptions on others.