I had cause recently to go (re-)read Directive 15 (because I had been speaking authoritatively about it and hadn’t reviewed it in quite some time - a couple of decades, probably). The last time (before this time) I thought I had reviewed it (or potentially related regulations with the IRS or some other governmental organization - I’ve had a lot of trouble trying to find such a citation, by the way), I learned that I couldn’t self-identify as White, because at that time only folks who were 7/8 White or more were allowed to self-identify as White. So I could only identify as Asian/Pacific Islander.

On further research this morning it sounds like I might have been reading an older regulation (if I had to guess, it was issued by a governmental or private agency in Virginia, but I can’t narrow it down further than that - I just don’t know) based on the older “One-drop rule“. It also sounds like in practice, this kind of rule was really only applied to folks who could be categorized as African Americans, but when I read it I’m pretty sure I thought it applied to me as well.

For reference of anyone who might find this via IBARW, I am half Chinese American and half Caucasian American by blood, ancestry, parentage. I can tell you where my families are from, but it also works if I say I’m 1/2 Taishanese, 1/4 Welsh, 1/8 English and 1/8 Scot. Cool, huh? I’m proud of my inherited ancestries.

Anyhow…

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This summary/links post is toward providing more contributions to IBARW 3, but may be interesting for my readers as well. Also, it’s helping me declutter my tags, so that’s also good.

Links and summaries after the cut.

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An almost 17-year old New York Times article.

An aware (we presume) surgeon.

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Feel free to join in, if you like.

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I’m copying/pasting the entirety of my answer here because sometimes comments are deleted from Ask Metafilter if they’re deemed “off-topic” by the moderators.

Anyhow, the original question is here. Essentially this straight white guy read “Unpacking the Invisible Backpack” and is looking for more resources to self-educate, having had eyes open a bit.

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Or at least it feels like again, though maybe it isn’t actually again. Maybe only in my head. It echoes a lot in there when I think stuff like this because it should be obvious, and it never actually seems to be, so the echoing is usually due to the strident rage that’s incipient.

Unfortunately, I can’t even say this on Daily Kos or anywhere else that’s a collaborative blog other folks own, because they sensibly have anti-trolling rules, and this would probably count under those rules.

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Can’t do much with it for 24 hours (comments)/a week (diaries), but I do have more political things (about race, about party unity) to say and I think I need to say them there.

Here’s the account.

Apparently a liberal pink blogger posted a photoshopped picture that featured Michelle Obama tied up and terrorized by Ku Klux Klan folks.

Link updated. Sorry about the protected LJ entry.

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Seal has done a great many good things. They are one of the few remaining feminist identified publishers in the US. They’re no longer independent and are owned by a much larger publisher, but I think they are still capable of doing good things. Because of the things I’m about to mention about them it should be clear they are receiving a very special ass-whuppin’ over their editorial standards and how they are or could be construed to be racist.

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