Why am I doing this?

If you've been following the posts so far you've really been getting to know me from my mixed race perspective.

But, why am I doing this?  Do I have a chip on my shoulder?  Do I have to solve some life threatening dilemma?  Am I venting or trying to vent for other people?  Yes and No.

All I'm really trying to do is get the discussion for mixed race people started and keep it going!

Okay.  So you're not of mixed race.  Why should this whole thing be an issue anyway?  Aren't we all human beings?  Don't mixed race people by their very nature prove this fact: that we are all equal, all brothers and sisters, one human family?

Doesn't nature also show us that if we pollute the environment it dies and becomes extinct?

But, we do it anyway.

Doesn't nature show us that animals have a right to live alongside us, sharing life in harmony?

But, we often run over them and their chosen living spaces, quite literally.

Don't we all feel that mankind should accept mankind?  After all, we are the same 'kind'.  Not animal, vegetable or mineral.

But, we neither behave nor think that way, do we?

I'm speaking by and large, let's be honest here: we don't treat each other with the kind of respect that we even show ourselves.

I'm also speaking personally, let's be honest: you and I have our own prejudices.  They are there, everyone has them.  Even mixed race people do.  We are not the 'anti-race', or 'the answer to race'.  If 'race' doesn't really exist, and is a social construct, does that mixed race people sort of cancel 'race' out?  I guess in someone's 'ideal fantasy world' we could.  But I'm often faced with my own racist ideas and attitudes.  Yes, I said that being a mixed race person, I have struggles with my own racism.

I would go so far as to argue that oftentimes we mixed people classify ourselves as yet another race altogether. (This behavior does not answer the problem of racism it only adds to the confusion of it.)  What would I call myself, 'Africandineminolee' (African, Scandinavian, Seminole, Cherokee)?  And would that be respectful of all my heritage - would I be placing them in the correct order?  Why not 'Cherekeminofricandinavian'?  (But that still puts the Scandinavian last...) 'Scandafricherokeminole'?

All of this is quite pointless.  But, are we - mixed race people - still human people?  

Yes, very much so.  People who happen to have different features than other people.  People who have had exposure to many different facets of differing cultures.  People who are expert in distinguishing differences in communication, inferred meaning, social cues and intention.

These are a few of the aspects that do make the 'mixed race' person different than the 'monoracial' person.

But anyone and everyone has these traits and tendencies.  Both mixed and not.

So, again, why am I writing all of this??

Because, in an 'ideal fantasy world' we would all be treated with equal respect and dignity.

We do, however, live in a world where people are screwed up in their thinking.

We do judge each other by what we think is right and expect everyone to live up to our way of thinking.

Is the mixed person some sort of 'Racial Diplomat', able to 'bridge the gap' between the races?

A great question, I will be addressing this in a future blog.

Why am I doing this, why am I writing this?

Answer: again, I have been so confused all my life about who and what I am.  I have taken active steps to discovering who and what I am as a person in this world.  I want to share these with everyone.

Feel free to add comments, argue or disagree with any of my viewpoints.  I am starting the conversation, and keeping it going!