How to pronounce “multiracial” in English

And so I'm going to jump to our next question, and I'm just going to ask you to-- let's think about if we had a magical power to transport back into time.And it's on multiracial Americans in higher education.

Well, within a couple of years, I was like, wait a second, Iowa is not so white.interracial and multiracial family configurations, right?

Well, within a couple of years, I was like, wait a second, Iowa is not so white.are biracial or multiracial, can be profoundly important.

And that's all to say that for LGBT Muslims, and for myself particularly, we stand especially in this political climate on at many intersections.We're a multiracial group, multiethnic community, multigenerational.I myself am an immigrant.

You know, sitting up here thinking about the young people that I've worked with, I guess a good general example I haveis working with multiracial young people who initially came out as lesbian or gay, and yetas they explore their identity, begin to transition to another gender.

For those that don't know, Mixed Googlers is one of many Google employee resource groups.We're a dedicated community for multiracial, multiethnic, and multiheritage Googlers and our allies.We're a diverse community with many backgrounds represented, and what brings us together is our commonality of experience.

Well, within a couple of years, I was like, wait a second, Iowa is not so white.being raised in biracial and multiracial families.

We have two foster daughters who are refugees from Burma.And then my extended family are pretty multiracial.And so I think everybody, even if your family was of the same ethnicity, you know you have generational divides, you have gender divides.

And so I'm going to jump to our next question, and I'm just going to ask you to-- let's think about if we had a magical power to transport back into time.And there's this one section called this multiracial queer bridge, called "My Back," where I talk a lot about what it meant to kind of also have to be--

Certainly some things missing.That's a pluralistic, multiracial democracy.

I grew up in Harlem, with my mother, oh absolutely in the house.But the identification, the multiracial-ism in our household made things kind of interesting.So when I said earlier that I was very aware of racial distinctions from a very early age, and you heard that I ended up becoming the Chief Diversity Officer for NBC

And that in fact you can see the precursors all the way back in 2003 with the rise of the concern about the war in Iraq.And then you begin to see this sort of multiracial, people power, technologically enabled movement starting to form that had higher hopes for the country and wanted to change.All of that back in 2003.

Well, within a couple of years, I was like, wait a second, Iowa is not so white.And so I would want to encourage folks whose kids are biracial or multiracial to really plug into some of those resources, because I'd

Well, within a couple of years, I was like, wait a second, Iowa is not so white.And so I would definitely encourage folks to plug into the many multiracial families that are having these conversations.

to realign American politics really forever.I mean in the white working class realignment originally of 2016, the activation really of a multiracial kind of working class coalitionand of really splitting American lines along a single individual question of did you attend a four-year college degree institution or not?

And in fact, because of white flight, I was a racial minority demographically in those schools.But what I noticed as I got older was that even though I was in a multiracial high school, my classes got whiter and whiter because, now I know,we were being racially trapped.

Well, within a couple of years, I was like, wait a second, Iowa is not so white.about the very acute and specific challenges and gifts that come from being in a biracial, multiracial family.

And there is nothing in the definition of equality that talks about fairness.And that's why the pursuit of an equal education system in a pluralistic, multiracial democracy that is also embedded with a long history of white supremacyand male supremacy and hetero supremacy and class supremacy and radicalized inequality has created a fundamentally unequal

and Kentucky excluded.That's a national crisis if we are actually aiming to be a pluralistic, multiracial democracy.Because this is the map of a social apartheid.

Certainly some things missing.We have to invert that if we're going to be a pluralistic, multiracial democracy.

Many of them were Hakka.I was explaining to Laura at lunch today, my multiculturalism and my multiracial background,which I don't know a lot of people who don't have some kind of multiracial background.

I was explaining to Laura at lunch today, my multiculturalism and my multiracial background,which I don't know a lot of people who don't have some kind of multiracial background.But in my case, it seems to be some surprise at, black and Chinese?

And particularly in the West, you know, unlike some other parts of the world, western countries in general-- and particularlyin North America, like Canada and US-- are truly multiracial, multiethnic, multireligious, multicultural communities.You know, we live in a time and a world in our society where, on a daily basis, we interact with people

attention when I find the most apathy comes from young young people who like my 12 year old godson who goes what'sthe big deal in his life they've always been places from the go he's always had a multiracial cast of friends he didn't understand racismfiner anyway so what was the breakthrough he had had to be explained to him and so there's that kind of not

What's good, y'all? My name is Sugi Dakks, and I'm so honored and proud to be playing some music for you guys, the mixed Googlers, in celebration of Mixed HeritageWeek, and just try to create a space where we can empower and uplift people that are mixed-race from multicultural backgrounds, multiracial backgrounds.But at the end of the day, just all come together, knowing that we're all human beings and we can all just celebrate that fact.

If you have questions that you'd like to ask Dr. Harvey while we're talking, please use the YouTube Live chat.A little bit more about Dr. Harvey, for 20-plus years, she's been active in multiracial organizing for racial justice,specifically focusing on white anti-racism.

all along the Atlantic Coast, you're talking about black indigenous peoples. Yet we have a census that treats, quote Hispanic, right as this sort of term that can erasebeing Indian and being black. And so that is intentional, right? That is how we control, um, people's ideology so that even as we move to a multiracial or people ofcolor majority in the United States, um, the hope is that right, like South Africa or Brazil, where you have minority white populations that will rule, Um, a

I think folks don't not interpret me sometimes being they want me to come do something because I am queerLGBT to spirit, black native, mixed person, right. You can this, But I wrote an article recently. This bridge called my multiracial back. Right. This idea that you're so thatyou get like you're a two for not even a two for your three.

and male supremacy and hetero supremacy and class supremacy and radicalized inequality has created a fundamentally unequalsociety, such that it's literally disruptive of a pluralistic, multiracial democracy.Equity is the right pivot, but to pivot towards equity, you have to understand two things.

Because this is the map of a social apartheid.This is radicalized inequality that is so embedded across the nation that it's interruptive of a pluralistic, multiracial democracy.This is our national income data.

And then after that, you just have all of these little slices of different groups.And it's made the city much, much more cosmopolitan, and obviously much more multiracial as people have come from all over the world.And this particular makeup continues to change.

And as an example of what it was like in that period, in one instance Gary was detained by security forces for attending a multiracial church