INTERRACIAL VOICE - Guest Editorial

Guest Editorial

Multiracial Principles
on Interracial Voice
By Liam Martin

A. Self-expression 1 Personal
The integrity of mixed-race identity, marriage, and ancestry is equal to any other.
2 Communal
Mixed-race and multiracial identities in all social contexts are a right, not a privilege.

B. Opposition 3 Dialectical
Involuntary Black and African-American identities for the mixed-race identified are the same as involuntary Negro and Nigger identities for blacks.
4 Logical
The basis of involuntary black identities in the mixed-race identified is the one-drop rule which defines the more distantly related human lineage as irreconcilable -- a scientifically unfounded belief.
5 Moral
The one-drop rule, which requires a belief in racial essence or "race", is ideological racism and is the product of the violent racism that preceded it.
6 Legal
The non-existence of "race" means that racial identities are belief systems that are logically, and therefore should be legally, governed by the First Amendment which regulates belief systems and freedom of expression, and which would neutralize this notion by treating all its forms equally.

C. Universal Expression 7 International
There exist international examples of mixed-race peoples -- Hispanics, Arabs, Greeks, Italians, etc. -- that disprove the one-drop rule.
8 Historical
Racism or the belief in "race" is a modern historical phase in continuity with the totemism of primitive society, the idolatry of early civilization, and the monotheism of historical society. It is challenged today by the post-modern identity of mixed-race.
9 Philosophical
An example of a world philosophy that is concerned with the rejection and disproof of the one-drop rule is Buddhism.
10 Spiritual
The rejection of the one-drop rule or the belief in "race" is the relevant spiritual paradigm for this age.