tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216910.post107749095948391173..comments2023-10-30T01:52:04.961-07:00Comments on Miniver Cheevy: Interracial dialogueJonathan Kormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249159323930786199noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216910.post-1114573356954347692005-04-26T20:42:00.000-07:002005-04-26T20:42:00.000-07:00I certainly take your point about PoCs being right...I certainly take your point about PoCs being rightly weary of attempting this kind of dialogue. <BR/><BR/>But I see your response to my post as a small example of the very point I was trying to make. <BR/><BR/>You've read me as implying that all PoCs are alike. That's surprising to me; I don't doubt that I have many racism blindspots, but I'm pretty clear that this isn't one of them. <BR/><BR/>I doubt that your surprising reading springs from something I really said. Rather, it springs from encounters you've had in other contexts. All of us walk into these subjects informed by past encounters, and I think it's easy to misread someone as falling into a pattern that you've heard before. <BR/><BR/>So I read this as another example of how we lack a language in which I can flag that I'm talking about PoCs in a general way for a specific purpose in this context only.<BR/><BR/>And ... for what it's worth, I'm no more fond of the term "person of color" than you are, for a whole host of reasons. One of these days, I'd like to blog about it, as I think there is some deep screwiness in the language of racial categories used in anti-racist circles. Still, it is sometimes useful to have a term to refer to any-people-who-are-subject-to-racism-in-America, as in this post. So I settled for PoC as a term of convenience, rather than double the length of the post on a subject that didn't contribute to my main point.Jonathan Kormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06249159323930786199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216910.post-1114565887994063352005-04-26T18:38:00.000-07:002005-04-26T18:38:00.000-07:00Hello, I found your Blog by way of Sophiaserpentia...Hello, I found your Blog by way of Sophiaserpentia's LJ post.<BR/><BR/>It seems to me that you simply haven't talked to enough People of Color--we're not all alike, after all. I'll admit that some PoC tend to behave the way you've described--that is usually because they're tired of upper-middle-class white people who pretend to be "anti-racists", but who are not sincere. <BR/><BR/>If you'd ever asked me that question, I could certainly tell you some ways that you can be anti-racist effectively. I'm Asian-American, by the way, not that it matters. I don't really like the term "People of Color", because it lumps everyone who is not white together into a not-so-logical category, as if we were all essentially the same and had the exact same needs, which is of course not true at all.<BR/><BR/>Regards,<BR/>Demondoll2001Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com