The Study of Racialism

By J. Ford Huffman, USA TODAY
Is David Matthews:

A. The white son of a vanished, activist mother whose Jewish heritage Matthews equates with wealth that would rescue him from poverty?

B. The bl ...

To anyone interested in these issues; we (meaning my publishers and I) were really, really pleased with the NY Times review. I thank any and all of you for your congratulatory emails and notes, very h ...

oddly, my light skinned father married a jewish (brunette, dark featured) woman and had me; and then married a blond, blue-eyed german woman, and had a much more typically "african american" ...

... was right on. i would marry her and have beige babies tomorrow.

interesting post, and a take i hadn't thought of. i guess we (all of us on this board to an extent) are pretty self-selecting, in terms of showing up. it makes me wonder how most biracial (specificall ...

Based on what I read in Brooke Kroger's book, David's father accepted what I call the "cold war" view of "black" versus "white." Saying that you're white, in that kind of ...

you probably suspended hubert selby, jr. as well! Very Happy

Will try to work on normal caps... aha! maybe a thread on what constitutes "normal," or "punctuation." I really am a rabble ...

in response to:

David is hereby asked to provide the source of this information. It appears to be grossly in error. In fact, according to the U.S. census, the Black/White intermarriage rate (the fr ...

hey everybody,

i've been swamped with writing assignments and thus haven't been able to check in here; as soon as i can get some air i will read these posts, which will probably teach me a thing or ...

ok, first of all, thanks. second, and totally off topic. i am in love with the mother daughter(?) combo in the top picture, and any way you could facilitate an introduction to either would be most app ...

hey, that last post of mine was written before i read yours Very Happy

thank you for the post, it was informative. i've often wished i had grown up in new orleans, and had a creole population to identify wi ...

sure. but i would say that my time in the trenches has given me a wider view of what white america thinks, unchained by political correctness. what white america thinks, as well as what black america ...

hey, i'm sorry you took my concession as a dig. what i actually said, in a pretty conciliatory way, if you look at the phrasing, was that my view appeared to be incorrect, or in the minority, as evide ...

it was very typical of jim crow era passing, yes. and i would say that i mostly had to cut the cords of that segment of my friends, because we had all freely shared racist ideologies up until that poi ...

i think salsassin (jaime?) is correct in that there may have been a regional component to my dilemma; but i think the reason my story has attracted any attention is because it is singularly american i ...

no. originally i knew nothing of race or color, though i was raised with prototypically black cultural influences. then i moved to baltimore when i was 9, and the inner city. my "race" was d ...

Still under investigation. Ramming a police car is a serious claim.

one deserving of death?

Yes, terrible and has nothing to do with tiger's identity

actually, in terms of the argument of ...

i would argue that my decision to pass was a tragic one, in that in so doing, i negated my entire lived reality--my home life and the people who raised me--so that i could be accepted by those who loo ...

Considering many kids who are white do it to each other, I would say prove those kids did it for the reasons you claim. Prove they wouldn't have done it if he had looked purely south asian. And finall ...

Lively discussion, happy to be a part of it. As I’ve mentioned already, I have a few points of agreement, a few points of divergence—which I will try to address below, hopefully without belaboring an ...