Just for the record: we're - once again - not white.
@peribotsarah I'm ok with not being white. Really. I just want to know what box to check on all those forms asking for race. @josh0
@AlliFlowers @josh0 I think I'm going to start leaving them blank,
@peribotsarah @AlliFlowers where offered, I usually go with ‘other’ and write in ‘Jewish’. I live mere miles from where my great-grandfather grew up in Baltimore, but in a neighborhood that explicitly excluded us back then; I like to think that me living there is a thumb in some racist’s eye, and I feel no need to be coy about it.
@josh0 When I do write something in, it's usually "Ashkenazi," but let's face it... that's pretty white. @peribotsarah
@peribotsarah @AlliFlowers it definitely doesn’t help that about ½ of my ancestry is unambiguously white (50% Ashkenazi, 50% Scottish, Welsh, Irish, and English, according to ancestry.com). Makes it difficult to feel like it’s a subject I get to have an opinion on.
Really sort of drives home that the whole dynamic of race is to separate people from each other.
@AlliFlowers @josh0
It's REALLY CONFUSING to me as I'm mostly Anglo-Saxon, but I think the broader definitions of race people are using are pretty much not useful.