"Race" isn't *just* skin color or phenotype. In fact, it isn't skin color or phenotype, DNA, culture, or whatever you want to call "race." What do I mean when I make that assertion?
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"Race, whether formally designated as such or not, generally comes to signify the fully human and the subhuman, whether genuinely within the human community or outside it (the subhuman as actually not human at all)," Charles Mills. 2/ 
"Race," by my analysis, is the hierarchy, the attending racism gets carried on by our continued belief in "race" as being something biological or socially constructed that exists *outside* of racism.
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Thus, when I say that "race doesn't exist in nature or as a social construction," I mean that "black & white"--when applied to humans--don't exist outside of racism.
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"Race," according to Mills, puts into question "the full humanity of the stigmatized racial group(s)."
When properly understood, our imposition & presumption of "race" results in our sometimes unintentional maintenance of a hierarchy, a dehumanization of one another.
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When properly understood, our imposition & presumption of "race" results in our sometimes unintentional maintenance of a hierarchy, a dehumanization of one another.
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*Racism* is the social construction that necessitates our continued & (mostly) blind belief in & upholding of "race" ideology & its correlated lang/practices.
We just continue to fool ourselves into thinking that "race" is *just* "skin color," phenotype, DNA, or culture.
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We just continue to fool ourselves into thinking that "race" is *just* "skin color," phenotype, DNA, or culture.
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Racism includes (& often *is*) the belief in "race" & the practice of racialization. Racism hides its face as "race." Dehumanization results with the imposition/presumption of "race," in the 1st place, because "race" *is* the dehumanization of humans.
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If you've ever felt that you haven't been seen as the imperfectly wondrous human that you are in favor of a racialized view of you (i.e., racism), that's bc "race" was never meant to emphasize our shared humanity...no matter one's racialization.
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Let's *finally* agree, together, to move forward *together* w/o you dehumanizing me or vice versa. The only way we can do that, truly, & forge a better future for all of us...is w/o race(ism). Let's go forward together despite any fears we may have...fears we may share.
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When understood, that's (all of the above) why "racelessness," in the context of the theory of @Racelessness, is synonymous w/being w/o race(ism)--both in being a cause & experiencing the effects. Know yourself & come into being outside of racism. #noregrets
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