![]() ![]() 180 As Sexton argues, the multiracial movement draws a line between black and multiracial, and allows privileges to one group over the other, similar to what occurred in Bacon’s Rebellion. Recognizing the negativity of the black race, and creating distance between black and multiracial alienates the marginalized minority. 179 To compensate for these woes, the black race must be rejected and replaced with the multiracial ethnicity. African-American studies professor Jared Sexton argues that the implicit rejection of the black race in multiracial discourse is due to the fact that the multiracial movement casts the black race as the reason for the woes of the multiracial ethnicity. ![]() While advocates in the multiracial movement never explicitly indicate distaste for the minority that constitutes part of a mixed race individual, the insistence on the development of a new racial designation inadvertently associates this minority with inferiority. ![]()
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