As Racist as We Wish to Be: Project RACE, “The Talk”, Obama and the Fear of Blackness. MixedRaceStudies.org 2012-04-10. Steven F. Riley. Late last year, I opined about the inability of some activists in the multiracial identity movement to combat racism. It is difficult to combat racism if you are not anti-racist and quite impossible if you—or at least your rhetoric—is actually racist.