At some point racism will cease to exist. White supremacists will no longer be able to consider themselves supreme because the races will continue to become more and more diluted, until no one can claim to be pure anything. Even caucasions can carry the genes of several foreign relations. I, myself, have been born of German, Swedish, and Welsh descendents. There are possibly more, but I have never had my DNA tested.
At what percentage can you call a person black? If she is 49% black, does that still make her black? If he is 52% Latino, does this mean he is not white? We are often asked (but not required) to check a box stating our ethnicity on job applications and other forms. I had not previously given much thought to this before; but I now realize how difficult that must be for some people. They are being asked to CHOOSE which people they want to be associated with and if they are of mixed race, that could be anywhere in between, or a potpourri of several races. This is so unfair. Frankly, it is nobody’s business! It should not matter because we are all human beings.
I am grateful that our incoming president, Joe Biden, is appointing several people of non-white ethnicity to his cabinet. Trump and his allies may continue to stick their heads in the sand, continue to spew out their hatred for those who have a different skin color, and treat them as less than human. There will probably always be groups of self-righteous people who will find some reason to hate others – if not skin color, it may be a person’s economic or academic status, or their age. Eventually though, all people will come to recognize that we are all related. We are all family, living on one globe. When we remember that the people in our lives are mirrors, reflecting back to us our own state of consciousness, we will come to understand those parts of ourselves that we are unhappy with. When we can see ourselves in others, we begin to close the chasm between us and help to bring back unity to a divided world.
