The untold truth behind the GOP election meltdown

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36. There's really only one race

I'm a boomer baby, who grew up in Dallas. My Dad was a cop, who changed the channel any time a black person came on. I can distinctly remember his cop buddies laughing about how they beat up a "nigger wire head" one night. I went to segregated schools K-12, and the Univ of TX (of which I am an alumna) had 20K students, but only 600 were AA and 300 Mex-Amer. In 1963 when I was 16, my Dad and Mom gave me hell and threatened to put me in juvenile hall for participating in a protest to desegregate the lunch counter at the downtown Woolworth's in Dallas.

It wasn't until I moved to San Francisco in 1972 that I had my eyes opened to multi-culturalism. While I wasn't surrounded by blacks (who were mostly in the East Bay, I was surrounded by Asians and Hispanics, Russians, French, Samoans, Filipinos, Aleuts, Arabs, Persians, Tibetans, Japanese, Vietnamese, Hindis, and many many people of mixed race. All the schools were integrated, and the kids had close friends BFs, GFs of every imaginable mixed background. I remember a friend from South Africa, who was shocked to see people that were part japanese and part AA.

The truth that there is really only one race, the human race. We are all, despite color, country of origen, or language, 100% plug compatible. If you look at the US electoral map, you'll see that the blue states, the west coast, NE coast, and NM/Nev & FL corridors are where we have experienced a great influx of people from other nationalities. It is the deep south that has such a fear of "race mixing."

100 yrs from now, all that race BS will be well on the way out because there will just be so many people all over every part of the country with multi-ethnic backgrounds. It will be very common to see different skin colors, hair textures, and physiques within the same family. Then Dr King's dream of being judged by your character and not your skin color will bear fruit. So stand firm in fighting racism where ever it rears its hateful ugly head.