The monopoly on race and its destructive consequences

On October 15, 2012, in Uncategorized, by Piet le Roux

Over at Bonfiire, I’m weighing in on how to undermine race classification and restore social harmony.

The real problem is that there (still) is a monopoly on race classification, whereby everyone in the country is forced to give objective and enduring status to something that should be subjective and fluid.

In the article, I suggest that we refrain from offering our cooperation in the state’s objectionable race classification system – the principles of which Étienne de La Boétie (1530-1563) formulated in The Politics of Obedience – the Discourse of Voluntary Servitude:

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.

And to paraphrase Johannes Kerkorrel: “Sit dit af, sit dit sommer sélf af.”