Mixt President Papa

Four years ago, when President Obama won the white house in a relative land slide, at least for a "black guy," my first thought wasn't here is America's first black president. Just as my thought wasn't, here is America's first black Academy award winning female lead when Halle Berry, in that UNFORGETTABLE dress, won the naked Gold guy. What I thought to myself and I imagine other mixt mommas may have thought and parents of mixt kids was this: doesn't anyone get it?

So on the precipice of what could be a historic check yourself moment for America and the Tea Naggers that have risen from the ironic ashes of a partially failed civil rights movement, I will explain this "it" as I know it. Truths, self-evidence, and all:

All people are created equal or in an equal manner. For the most part we are made up of cells and organs, genetic hacks. When we start to compare ourselves to one another, and it starts early: on the playground, in sports, academics, beauty, etc... we come up with wild assertions about who or what is better. We make our own stereotypes from the inequities we see in each other, from the insecurities we come to know in ourselves. Through these comparisons, the next thing you know, we are all bigots.

The nice thing about being mixt isn't that one is prejudice free. Ok, so maybe that isn't the nice thing. But truthfully it is that you can recognize certain cultural nuances from a definitively unique perspective and then MOVE ON. That is what I like about our president. Oh yeah, and he isn't the first black president. He's the first mixed one. And that may be questionable...

Of course, same could be said for almost ALL American blacks and certainly some American whites, descendants of slaves and land owners alike. There was so much fluidity between races during colonial times that has recently been well-researched, peer reviewed, and documented that it really is hard to know. But that is a different post.

So for now, God/Goddess bless America, our choices, our next four years, and beyond. ...As the universe shakes its head at the third rock from "the" sun.