Race, Color & Creed
In 1961 the Navy gave me three choices: Caucasian, Mongoloid or Negroid. My father was white and my mother was mixed so I left it blank.
They filled it out for me, and that’s that!
I take people at their word. If you say you’re white, you’re white and if you say you’re black, you’re black. Take your pick, red, yellow or any shade of brown – I don’t need to see the DNA. And that pertains to all native peoples everywhere. It shouldn’t take a tribunal to determine who’s an American Indian. Everyone has the right to marry the culture of their liking and divorce it if it does not work out. We are all mixed but to varying degrees. In time, the melting pot will absorb the mosaic ghetto by way of intermarriage, free association and education. Purity and Vitruvian perfection are abstract concepts that are impractical in real life. Furthermore, diversity, in time, will render racial categories moot. The supercilious Swiss still bear the blue birthmark of Genghis Khan, who overran Europe with an oversized libido, but lost interest soon after.
Whoopie Goldberg mistook Jews for white and was summarily suspended from her job despite profusely apologizing to her employers in a public humiliation. Too bad they had no interest in discussing the subject. Angela Davis was subject to the same heavy-handed response recently. She was quietly reinstated with no apology.
The Nazis did not consider Serbs white either! Even though Jews and Serbs appear visibly white to everybody else. Black people have no such option. Moreover, all of my Jewish friends say they’re white and the glaring ambiguities of race, religion and creed when it comes to Judaism makes them feel uncomfortable.
Is it possible to convert to black? Is white on white crime taboo? The point is, Nazis were ruthless killers, unfit for society. Blacks in captive Africa were slaughtered for sport without much of a fuss… they didn’t require tattoos to identify them.
If you’re looking for challenges to be proud of, try waking up black.
The color of your skin, hair or eyes has nothing to do with cerebral acumen. So what’s the big deal in being white? It’s the power of the gun. Without it they would be speaking Mongolian or Chinese, but still glad they’re not black. Mongoloid and Negroid went the way of the Dodo but Caucasian is still here behaving badly and feeling good about themselves.
Fusion cuisine, hybrid cars and gender neutrality all attest to the futility of pure-bred reality. Moreover, white is not an accomplishment to be proud of. It’s dumb luck. If you’re looking for challenges to be proud of, try waking up black.