get real

When people from a non-caucasian lineage can take it, just as easily as they give it out, finally, finally, America, we will know progress has been made.

The last episode of "White Famous" a Showtime show I truly enjoyed, showed the lead actor who plays a comic, doing his stand up routine to a room full of black people.  He's going on and on abt "White people" and how weird they are, and crazy they are.  The people in the room are laughing their asses off.

I really liked the show.  It was hilarious and cute.  I think Jamie Foxx was an executive producer.

But, watching the last few minutes of the last episode, I was like hmmm.  What the comic was saying was funny, and probably "true" as much as anything is, and honestly it didn't bother me that much, or take away how much I enjoyed the show, but are "White people" the only sentient beings on the planet expected to have self-awareness and the confidence to be able to laugh at themselves.  Somebody somewhere probably called that episode "rascist" bc it was, but honestly who cares, I'm getting sick of that word.

I wasn't alive in the 18th and 19th centuries.  I have no idea if my ancestors were the coolest people on the planet, the worst, or just humble folks struggling to get by.  And to be frank I don't really give a shit.  I'm not sure what dwelling on any of that stuff does.

But, as for this lifetime, I've been around for a while.  Suffering is something we all get to experience.  We also get to experience "the other," be it male, female, christian, muslim, jew, native, non-native, LGBT, hetero, old, young, southerner, northener etc. etc.

Lets move on people.  Focus on making our lives the best they can be.

Eat healthy, exercise, speak our truths, respect others as they do the same, stand up for ourselves, stand up for each other, but also know "there are countless variations on the human theme" (a quote from one translation of the I Ching) and that the person in front of you who you deem so privledged or perfect, or contrarily so valueless and disposable, may not be who you think they are, just like, most certainly, you are not who they think you are.

I'm a patriot, I'm not sure why.  Maybe in a global sense being a patriot is as bad as being a rascist.  I don't know.  But either way I am one.

And I'm hoping we can heal all the division we have in our country.  But I know healing won't come from, I don't know how else to say it, liberal guilt, walking on egg shells, and double standards.

We're better than that.  All of us.

peace