Interracial-Voice
Charles Michael Byrd's Published OpEds

By Charles Michael Byrd
C. Byrd


From 1995-2003 I published Interracial Voice, a webpage serving the mixed-race community and which supported the initiative to establish a multiracial category on the 2000 Census. I appeared on Jim Lehrer's NewsHour in 1997 and wrote Op-Eds for the San Francisco Chronicle and (New York) Newsday. Interracial Voice is no longer active, but in the past few years I've been fortunate enough to have a number of opinion pieces for various media outlets. I'm providing links to these recent works, and I hope you enjoy.


"Meghan Markle & the Mixed-Race Worldview:
Spinoza Vs. Marx-lite in the Trump Era"

(Self-published on Medium.com)


The Orlando Sentinel -- April 29, 2015
In Ferguson, Obama missed his chance to transcend race

The Orlando Sentinel -- July 15, 2015
Placing Tubman on the 10-spot: Heroic pick that's on the money

The Orlando Sentinel -- September 2, 2015
Spirituality can help us to transcend race consciousness

The American Thinker -- December 30, 2015
Crime stats and Black Lives Matter

The Washington Examiner -- February 4, 2016
Religion and Marx have failed those darker than blue

The Daily Caller -- April 11, 2016
Misdirection And The Theater Of The Racially Disingenuous

The Hill -- June 23, 2016
It's not the guns to blame, it's the ideology

The Hill -- July 25, 2016
An inconvenient truth for Obama, Black Lives Matter and racial hypnotism

The Hill -- September 28, 2016
Inner-city crime should matter to Kaepernick and Black Lives Matter

The Daily Caller -- February 14, 2017
Bill Maher's Mic Drop On Trump And Identity Politics

The Daily Caller -- May 3, 2017
The Philosophy Of Multiracial Identity Vs. The Cult Of Antiracism

The Daily Caller -- June 21, 2017
So, Who's Allowed To Say The "N-word?"

The American Thinker -- October 12, 2017
Inner-City Murders and the NFL

The Washington Examiner -- July 31, 2019
Kamala Harris embraces exclusive blackness at the expense of her Indian heritage

The Libertarian Republic -- March 31, 2021
From 45 to Biden: Mixed-Race Meditations on White Skin Privilege and Neo-Marxism

The New York Daily News -- June 19, 2021
Don't let the politics of BLM define mixed-race Americans

The Toronto Star -- June 02, 2022
Narrowing the racial divide in America


"The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred million to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?"

--Henry David Thoreau


The San Francisco Chronicle -- July 25, 2001
Transcending 'race consciousness' / The 'other' side explains the need for the new multiracial category

The Albany (NY) Times Union -- July 28, 2007
Look inside to find path to harmony


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