Today’s multiracial Americans are
Today’s multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they’d like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white. Eric Liu
Multiracial
Colonization was the idea
Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged – or required, in some people’s view – required to leave the country. It’s part of an attitude toward the abolition of slavery which says America should not be a slave society, but it can never be a multiracial society. You can never … Read more
Barack H. Obama is
Barack H. Obama is a landmark presidential figure as the first black, multiracial, multicultural president from Hawaii and the Pacific. Dinesh Sharma
What is accurately portrayed
What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You had blacks and whites coming together and sacrificing, organizing and mobilizing the world. That’s the first time we’ve had collective action put at the center of any kind of portrayal of … Read more
A fully functional multiracial
A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue. Cornel West
History has blessed us
History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident of our origins, with the linguistic unity that brings a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America. Why gratuitously throw away that priceless asset? How mindless to … Read more
The old boy network
The old boy network is still too strong in Canadian business. A visit to the Toronto clubs at lunch stands in about as great a contrast to the multicultural, multiracial subway underneath as can be humanly imagined. This is not healthy. Bob Rae
There is no doubt
There is no doubt that the issue of race is always present in American politics and in the politics of any multiracial society. There is also no doubt that for some people it is an element in the manifested hostility to Obama. But I don’t think it is the major theme at all. Obama is … Read more