In These Times

She wears her Woman of Color on her sleeve. I'm also a woman of color, and so what. Yeah, we're all the same. That's just true. "The freedom to perform our identity gives us the power to define its meaning." -- To quote Pope, that's an "unmeaning, miscalled a thought." Is this a sideways attempt to justify identity as performance? I say we drop that and confess. And this passage is just BS: "At the heart of this individualist perspective on race is the assertion of sameness: We are all racists; we are all human. Difference is an artificial cultural construct …

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