White man claims he’s transracial. And what ethnicity does he identify with? This might be a first.
Nov 13, 2017 5:09 pm
A white man who calls himself Ja Du said he's transracial — a person who identifies with a different race. He considers himself Filipino. (Image source: WTSP-TV videos screenshot)
What’s this all about?
He’s a white man named Adam, but he goes by the name Ja Du, WTSP-TV reported.
He rides around Tampa, Florida, in a purple three-wheeled mini vehicle called a Tuk Tuk, which is used for public transportation in the Philippines, the station said.
Turns out Ja Du is transracial, WTSP reported.
And what ethnicity does he identify with? You guessed it: Ja Du considers himself Filipino.
“Whenever I’m around the music, around the food, I feel like I’m in my own skin,” he told the station. “I’d watch the History Channel sometimes for hours, you know whenever it came to that and you know nothing else intrigued me more but things about Filipino culture.”
Ja Du told WTSP he even started a Facebook group for others who consider themselves transracial.
What else did Ja Du say?
He told the station that while he hasn’t yet told his family about being transracial over concerns they’ll laugh at him, Ja Du did say he’s transsexual and is considering changing his gender — and has spoken to his family about that issue.
What did a psychologist have to say about being transracial?
Stacey Scheckner — a licensed psychologist with a doctorate from Florida State — told WTSP she hasn’t had a client who identified with a different race but has worked with those wanting to change their bodies.
“I think that if that’s who they really feel inside, life is about finding out who you are,” she told the station. “The more knowledge you have of yourself, the happier you can be. And, as long as it’s not hurting yourself or anyone else, I don’t see a problem with that.”
Scheckner added to WTSP that detractors should be more understanding: “I think before we get offended, we need to take a step back and think about what is the harm.”
Is Ja Du doing this for personal gain?
Some wonder if he’s identifying as Filipino to get things he wouldn’t as a white person, the station said — but Ja Du said that’s not the case.
“I believe people will [take advantage] just like other people have taken advantage of their identity to get their way, but the difference between me and them … is that I don’t want that,” he told WTSP. “I think that we all have the freedoms to pursue happiness in our own ways.”
The idea of people identifying with or trying to become a different race hit the headlines in 2015 with the case of Rachel Dolezal, who was born white but identified as black and even became president of her local NAACP chapter.
Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.
The Goals of Communism
(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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