You see, that’s the point: you want to classify yourself, fine. I will accept it. But I won’t force you into it. It’s not for me to decide. I there to be an “us”, as naive as it sounds. Race is a discredited relict of the 19th century that should be discredited, buried and belittled. Houston Stewart Chamberlain was an asshole who greeted the coming of Hitler.
I do not deny that there are minorities, that people are discriminated against simply because of their skin color. And it’s so pervasive, so ingrained I catch myself if only for a second. So I fight it. These people are better than I am, I hope. Smarter.
I know I am a fool, I know it. But I won’t spread the foolishness further. I would rather be a fool that was too tolerant than one who taught intolerance.
Sorry, that was more of a rant than I wanted. But I am leaving my foolish words as I wrote them in their raw form, to haunt me.
