Maybe we can come up with a new race, how bout pink? Or cream or beige or eggshell or something... You know a lot more about your ancestry than I do. It's kinda impressive. I'm glad you're not a small yippy dog though. :)
It's a sort of privilege just to have had ancestors who could read and write, and who cared enough to write down lists of names, dates and villages. I'm grateful for that.
Now I'm torn. The so-called "White race" was a deliberately constructed artificial identity created for political reasons. It's had terrible results for humanity. I would rather have nothing to do with it.
But either I let myself be lumped in with all the other "White" people, or I make life a little bit harder for some poor census worker who will be given the job of knocking on my door and pigeonholing me. And it probably won't make a bit of difference.
Well it's all constructed identities. :) Don't worry, no one is gonna lump you into a big pile o white people no matter what box gets checked on the form. At least I don't think piles of white people is the plan.
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Or cream or beige or eggshell or something...
You know a lot more about your ancestry than I do. It's kinda impressive.
I'm glad you're not a small yippy dog though. :)
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Now I'm torn. The so-called "White race" was a deliberately constructed artificial identity created for political reasons. It's had terrible results for humanity. I would rather have nothing to do with it.
But either I let myself be lumped in with all the other "White" people, or I make life a little bit harder for some poor census worker who will be given the job of knocking on my door and pigeonholing me. And it probably won't make a bit of difference.
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Don't worry, no one is gonna lump you into a big pile o white people no matter what box gets checked on the form.
At least I don't think piles of white people is the plan.
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