We're all Just One Race

I've been struggling, lately, with feelings of doubt and confusion. When I started this blog over two years ago, I was so certain about my passion for the topic I was writing on. But over the last few months I've realized that my previous musings have actually been masking a deeper truth, one that my conscience must declare to everyone today.

So. Inspired by google, I've decided that I need to change the name of this blog to reflect the true beliefs that I hold about race.

From now on, this blog is going to be called "One Race America." Because I think Stephen Colbert really gets it right. He doesn't see race and neither should I. After all, we're really just one race, the human race. Why have I been promoting the idea that there's actual racial diversity?! HOW ABSURD! I mean, every time I talked about race what I was really doing was perpetuating divisions and highlighting differences between people. And I know I've said previously that noticing difference was fine--it's the hierarchies we create that cause problems with respect to racial categories. But I realize now I was wrong. Every time I talked about race I was really promoting the idea of racism.

And I know I've written previously that racism caused race--but I was wrong. I see that now. I see that talking about race just makes people feel bad, and making people feel bad is what actually harms us. Especially white people. People of color should stop making white people feel guilty for things that aren't their fault. I mean, they weren't alive during the relocation of American Indian tribes or the transatlantic slave trade or the Chinese Exclusion Act or the Mexican American war. It's not their fault.

And people of color, I apologize to you especially for perpetuating a mentality of victimhood. Remember: love sees no color. Why look back at the past and worry about what happened to your ancestors or your parents or the childhood insults and taunts. Or your co-workers strange remarks and glances. Just stay positive! Focus on the future! If you bring up your feelings, then you only leave yourself open for others to call you a racist for mentioning race, so it's better to just hold all those feelings in and find a more productive outlet. Like needlepoint. Or water polo.

So remember. Today this blog is ONE RACE AMERICA. So when someone shouts a racial epithet at you or you were mistreated in a restaurant and you suspect it had to do with the differential melanin condition between you and your server or people look at you and your phenotypically different partner, remember, it's not because of race. You just need to move on and not worry about such things. And whatever you do, DON'T TALK ABOUT IT. Taking about race only makes things worse!