One of the best ways I've found of challenging the internal Purity culture programming has been asking myself:
Is this actually liberation or are we re-inventing segregation?
Because, like. So many well meaning concepts get lost in the sauce and we end up heading straight towards segregation again, and this is where the idea of Racial Purity comes in. That the races SHOULDN'T mix, etc.
I'm going to say, I am a mixed raced individual. I am South Asian and South East Asian. I have spent my entire life existing as being racially ambiguous, especially with existing within the United States (I'll say that Brits tend to correctly clock me as Desi, USAmericans go for South or North American. Which is interesting, and a phenomenon that's happened my entire life.
I learned pretty early on that explaining to people what my "actual" race was just led to different, more targeted racism, so I decided to just stay quiet, and in doing so, it became very very very clear to me that there was a pretty good reason that Europeans colonised the Americas and went "man they sure look Indian." Like wow ! It's almost like that makes sense.
I've been listening to the Lil Darkie album, USD, and that shit is so Land Back it gives me goosebumps. I might just do a whole analysis on it tbh now that it say it. But as an Indian-American man, I relate a lot to his ideals of Land Back, even though I don't personally consider myself American. Rizwan (Riz) Ahmed's album The Long Goodbye was more my personal jam, but now I understand why
